It's funny the things that translate cultures: Disney, 90's music and the love for singing them stupidly into a microphone. Yesterday, nearly everyone in Seminar House went for karaoke, to end a nearly 100% successful stream of placement review testing. I was a little paranoid the entire way there of offending the Japanese since twenty-some foreigners on a bus, all talking, tends to be quite a big of noise, not to mention two morons who explicitly ignored the warnings of the CIE staff and stood outside of a convenience store drinking their alcohol. Unfortunately, the mass is always penalized for the stupid actions of the few, and the Japanese we encountered probably rued the day they decided to use that bus. But can you do besides apologize formally, thank formally and give as many "don't hate me" smiles as possible?
A few Disney songs and an all male duet of Dilemma by Kanye West later, I managed to loosen up enough to de-stress from the first week of classes and have fun. I am paying for it today with a lack of voice, but I would still do it again in a heartbeat and I'm glad I've been able to experience that little niche in the Japanese culture.
Just like Bennington, however, the first day of my weekend has been spent thinking about homework while really doing something else. But I'll have a free day tomorrow as well to spend as much time on my literature reading and Japanese as I want.
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