Jitensha

Hey hey, today was my first day actually doing stuff at the office! I started off with an amazing 4 hours with a Japanese tutor and even though Iʻm sure I seemed almost disrespectfully tired, I enjoyed every minute of it.  They fully immerse you in the language and talk really slow, but thatʻs ok because they know that you take your time.  I wrote stuff out and I was shocked to discover how much I actually know in Japanese.  Great confidence boosting day.

And confidence was absolutely necessary for endeavors of later in the day.  Immediately after the tour I ended up going to get lunch and we at Dogo Park which was BEAUTIFUL! Whenever I go back I intend to take a picture but, unfortunately when we left today I didnʻt know we were going to eat at a park so I didnʻt bring my camera.  I found out one of my coworkers speaks Spanish.  She even invited us to a Salsa class on Tuesday!

As it was a very confident type of day, I must also mention that today I had a huge Ugly American moment during my Japanese tutoring session.  She asked me what my major was and I said Hawaiian and "hoterumanagimento." Now, I donʻt know if you know this already but I explained to her that itʻs hard to Japanesify all my words, to which she replied,"Itʻs a Japanese word, and thatʻs why you pronounce it as such.

Wow, heavy.  Think about it.

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