Sunday, 27 March 2005

Happy Easter!

Crap, this site's gone to Hell! I've seriously had so little free time this past few weeks since China, I havn't even had time to finish talking about... China!

I'll get around to it sooner or later. See how realistic this blog is? You get a real impression of the busy life that living in Japan creates! It's like a cultural phenomenon that you're experiencing right here! Don't think of it as "Get of your arse and write something interesting!", think of it as an accurate depiction of..... ah, screw it. I'll write something when I feel like it. ;) Haha.

Well, the average Nova student seems to know less about Easter than Christmas, but then I can't say I know about every culture in the world's holiday either, but still, people have told me Santa is a Christian icon. Go figure. Anyway, had some fun forcing my culture upon some students today by giving them some leftover Easter Eggs (REALLY hard to find in Japan. I couldn't find ANY hot cross buns!) and explaining the brief history. A lot of us foriegners (hate that word) even forgot it was Easter. You honestly can't tell in Japan as there's no Easter celebration at ALL.

The word "foriegner". I've never used that word n conversation until I came to Japan. I HATE it. Use "Australian" or "people from outside Japan" or .... MY NAME, or even "sir". I find it really racist how I'll get called "Gaijin / Foreigner" and a Japanese person will get called "sir". Come on. And they use the word to describe EVERY non Japanese person. How can I "look like a foreigner" when the same word is used to describe people from BRAZIL.

One of my kinder's called me a "baka gogokujin" the other day, which I gave him a time out for. It didn't really effect me at all, but after my shift it just hit me and I was in instant offended mode, and honestly on the verge of crying (but in a manly way, and I didn't so just pretend I didn't say that). It just made me feel shitty for about 48 hours straight. That and several motherfucking shithouse management decisions at work (I'm over it now)... well if I was at work at 3am in the morning, I would have walked into the office and given a 5 minutes notice right there and then.

I'm feeling much better now (fine actually), but being called that really triggered some shit. I wasn't offened, it's really hard to explain. It just triggered something.

Annyway..... that was a rant and a half.

I'm feel pretty good now. Happy Easter all!