Brayton (neighbor), Masuda Sensei (Japanese teacher), Andy (metal enthusiast), Adam (me)
Andy in shorts
Drumline
The strain
Women only shrine
Mortal Kombaaaat!
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Stories from Japan and Chile.
- Adam S. Fuller
- I am a social media professional, writer and photographer from Phoenix, Arizona. The Gaijin Report is the travel blog I started while living in Japan and Chile. Please visit http://adamsfuller.com to read my current blog: Fuller Creative.
Santiago Slurring
- Not many people on crutches, but a hell of a lot of limping
- A meal "a lo pobre" is rich in taste, high in cholesterol and not for the poor
- Ya does not always mean yeah
- Always beware of the upsell
- No place to learn, practice or fine tune Spanish speaking skills
- I've never eaten more hot dogs in my entire life
- If you're 15 minutes late, you're a day and a half early
- If it's broke, you can't break it
That's Japan
- There's no way to say you miss somebody in Japanese
- Latest set of 2nd Grader vocab words: advertise, industrial, nuclear, waste, dump
- Same word is used for "absent" and "vacation"
- Logic, compassion and enjoyment are sacrificed for tradition, respect and control
- The more pain you're in, the more respect you're showing
- If you are efficient you are lazy
- Same word is used for "different" and "wrong"
- When someone says somebody is "nice" it means, "I hate him/her"
- There's a fine line between amusement and annoyance here
- Same word is used for "funny" and "interesting," which is pretty interesting and kind of funny
- They're not bad drivers, just rushed and inconsiderate
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