bettyx
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nicole: read the book. it's great. as is 'middlesex' by the same author.
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happo & goryu are both great. for the kids, sakka is maybe wider , whereas i found goryu can get a bit crowded on the easier slopes?
either way you'll have a great time. why don't you try a day at goryu and a day at happo?
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ok, maybe it's been too long since i've spoken english but i have no idea what you just said...
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after a week of requests to teach christmas at four different schools, on friday the school told me i wasn't allowed to mention the 'c' word. (no, not that one)
they said that christmas is too christian and japan was not a christian society so i wasn't to mention it in class.
and i said, okay, how about if i focus on the gift-giving, christmas tree side of things, and don't mention the religious aspect? (my catholic mother would have been real proud of me). & i produced a series of origami christmas trees & cards i'd made at the other schools.
the teachers totally ganged up on me and said, no way.
& i said, okay, but i thought my job was to teach these kids about cultures outside of japan, particularly what we do in Australia,& how it compares to new years in japan.
& they said, nope, stick to the weather lesson plan.
i was soo frustrated. & it's not like i wanted to convert the kids, i just wanted to do something seasonal.
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oh c'mon, i like the ungirls guys. they're cute. they do that ema-c ad , & i think they're the voices on the new macca's ad
.. & it takes quite a man to pull off a bowlcut
i also like mino. if you knew eddie macguire (host of the aussie millionaire), you'd probably like mino too.
i don't like the guy who does that show with about 20 girls sitting talking, & he holds a funny microphone/baton thing.. he yells a lot.
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wow, thanks for the help. now how do i go about faking my death? do like olivia newton-john's boyf & just fall off the planet?(i'm sure gaijin must do this all the time, but how?)
any warnings about leopalace? um.. the kitchen is non-existent. i've got one hot plate & a sink with a tiny shelf above it. you can definitely find somewhere bigger/cheaper elsewhere, but it was nice not having to buy a fridge/tv/microwave/washingmachine/heater/bed/table.
there is nowhere for storage.
otherwise it's nice, small & warm. can't complain really.. except for the 3month notice bit.
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oh crap.. just dug out my contract & it says i've gotta give 90 days notice to move out, or must pay the remainder.
anyone know how to get around this??!!
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help!
i'm currently living in a leopalace & think i'd like to move out.
i've heard it's really expensive to move out. does anyone know what i need to do, how much notice i need to give, what i've gotta pay etc?
thanks~
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ouch.Quote:Originally posted by grungy-gonads:
I know what you're saying BofC. Living in Japan and seeing all the modestly (and very nicely) proportioned ladies here, seeing those thunderthighs is a bit of a shock. Some people like that you know.
i'm hoping that i can somehow fall into the 'ladies here' category, purely for the fact that i'm here & i'm a lady?
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how did you do two levels ? they were so strict about checking photos etc.Quote:Originally posted by Markie:
I tried out both the Level 3 and Level 4 yesterday, just to check out my standard and, funny thing I noticed: there we 2 questions in each section, giving a total of six, which were identical in both Level 3 and 4.
I wonder if there we any identical questions in 1 and 2 or 2 and 3 as well.
& yes, i also thought it was all long passages. hopefully i got some of them right as that's where i spent all my time, by the time i got to grammar it was too late & i had zero energy left anyway.
& as you all said, it doesn't mean much anyway. seems like all the japanese people i know have never even heard of it. ((but then most people i know are ski bums or primary school teachers - not exactly the business set
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the instructions on the booklet (do not open before the test begins, etc) are in japanese & english. & there was sign on the wall with a pic of a mobile phone & 'NO!' written above it.
my impression of the test:
1)despite the above rule (do not open the booklet before the test begins or you will be given a yellow card, two strikes & you're out), the girl sitting next to me read through her booklet before the beginning of each THREE sections. this really annoyed me (even though i'm generally a stick-it-to-the-man kinda gal) as i thought it was not only disrespecting the rules, but also the rest of us who were waiting patiently.
2)it's not only japanese girls who do their makeup in public. a chinese girl in front of me pulled out an entire box of cotton buds, a huge mirror & proceeded to do her eye makeup (complete with smudging with the cotton buds), for about 10 mins before the test started.
3)the listening/spoken parts seems to assume we are all idiots (it is ridiculously slow) whilst the grammar expects we are all walking textbooks.
4)i'm so glad it's over & i plan to NEVER take it again.
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this coming from a guy drinking two pints through his nostrils!Quote:Originally posted by 2pints,mate:
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you're kidding, right?! i didn't study either but i spent 7000yen on the test so i thought i'd better take it.
plus now that's it's over i feel FANTASTIC.
(probably like you did whilst on the snow!!)
one problem though, mid-way through the listening section, i glanced outside & noticed it was SNOWING!! then i heard '..deshou ka?' & realized i'd totally missed the question. whoops!
but worth it just for the thrill i got from watching the snow fall
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hahaha.
don't tempt me.
this is already the hundredth time i've come online to check the weather reports!
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ok, but can we call it an underarm? it doesn't sound so primitive.
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oh my god, i almost vomited on my keyboard.
how the hell do these people get published?!
despite all of the trash they wrote, somehow 'armpit&mouth' struck me as the most unsexy bit. i always associate armpits with 'sweaty'..
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yeah but i can never get the damn shrink wrap off.
& then when i finally do, i've gotta deal with the seal at the top of the case..
aah give me good value anyday!
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so how long until someone drops a mastercard ad-style 'every day spent riding the freshest powder in all of japan: priceless' remark?
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wowser.
that is perhaps the ugliest male model i've ever seen.
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ok.
give me until the snow melts.
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so true.Quote:Originally posted by yamayamayama:
...unless it's your L-plates parents, in which case they will never shut up with the questions and get annoyed with YOU when they don't understand!Quote:teach a person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks
i don't think that's a letterman top 10.. his number 2 is almost always funnier than number 1, and i'm not so sure about this one. -
ha.
my mother would spit on yr racialist remark & give you a clip behind the ears for putting towels in with clothing.
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i borrowed the tale of genji from my school a little while ago.
it's currently being used as a doorstop (it's a brick!) but i hope to crack the spine sometime over winter.
has ANYONE read the whole thing? (& i don't mean just on this forum, but in general? or is it like the japanese war&peace?)
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ha! so are my skating skills!Quote:Originally posted by number9:
. And rental skates are invariably crappy, unfortunately.
Good movies you've seen recently
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team america, f**k yeah.
i laughed much more than i should have during that film. i liked the puppetry very much.
hopefully going to see king kong this weekend. am interested to see what a slimmed-down peter jackson has coughed up this time.