SKI 15 Posted January 5, 2003 Share Posted January 5, 2003 For those of you living in Japan.... I feel I've become more patient than I was before I came here. Well, hurry up with your responses then.... Link to post Share on other sites
danz 0 Posted January 5, 2003 Share Posted January 5, 2003 I can now talk about food for hours...and enjoy it too! mmmm, katu-don.... danz Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted January 5, 2003 Share Posted January 5, 2003 I now ride a snowboard every weekend. Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted January 5, 2003 Share Posted January 5, 2003 hessitate when dropping into over 6ft bombs (it kills me) Link to post Share on other sites
mogski 0 Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted January 6, 2003 Cynicism has become my best freind. Link to post Share on other sites
zwelgen 0 Posted January 7, 2003 Share Posted January 7, 2003 When I eat sweets I chew them rather than sucking them like I used to Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted January 7, 2003 Share Posted January 7, 2003 I am now more open minded than I was before (I think). Link to post Share on other sites
Karnidge 2 Posted January 8, 2003 Share Posted January 8, 2003 I went throught the 'I think I'm more patient now' period, but I think the opposite is now true - I seem to be less so. Sad as it is, but true. Link to post Share on other sites
Glen Falting 0 Posted January 8, 2003 Share Posted January 8, 2003 Forget all the guff about living overseas and how it broadens a person's horizon. Living in Japan is a series of frustrating reminders of how much better things are run, done or organised in other countries - except England of course. Alex Keer's book Dogs and Demons sums it up perfectly. That is not to say there aren't many things that work extremely well here, they're just not quite as noticable. I speak enough Japanese to get by and have some very good Japanese friends and really enjoy living here (in the winter), but I've definitely become more bigated since leaving Oz. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted January 9, 2003 Share Posted January 9, 2003 I've become lazier I reckon if I'm honest with myself, and possibly also more selfish (wagamama?)... Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted January 9, 2003 Share Posted January 9, 2003 Quote: Originally posted by Blinky: but I've definitely become more bigated since leaving Oz. I must admit the same, by the popular definition, I am becoming more of a racist/bigot by the day. Link to post Share on other sites
montoya 0 Posted January 9, 2003 Share Posted January 9, 2003 Coming from Califonia: I don't drive a car anymore. Also probably drink lots more alcohol. And eat more rice. And whereas back home I was an ethnic minority, here I'm just a "gaijin". -montoya. Link to post Share on other sites
viv&kev 0 Posted January 10, 2003 Share Posted January 10, 2003 I'm less restless here in Japan. Perhaps that has something to do with getting older, along with the fact we have a better lifestyle here than we did before we came here Link to post Share on other sites
jared 0 Posted January 10, 2003 Share Posted January 10, 2003 I have stopped looking longingly at planes and wishing I was going somewhere more interesting than home. Link to post Share on other sites
MalcomB 0 Posted January 10, 2003 Share Posted January 10, 2003 I now sometimes look at them longingly and think of home home. Link to post Share on other sites
frannyo 2 Posted January 14, 2003 Share Posted January 14, 2003 I am now better at bowing; I am now better at being 'insincere'; I am now worse at speaking English Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted January 15, 2003 Share Posted January 15, 2003 I say lots of rude and sarcastic things in English under my breath that would have got me punched in England. My boy asked me in the car the other day "Why do you shout at people in other cars when they can't hear you?" Good question. Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted January 20, 2003 Share Posted January 20, 2003 My English has deteriorated. Link to post Share on other sites
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