Slacker’s new clothes… and shoes.
Posted by harvey in Culture on 26. May, 2002 | Comments Off
My wardrobe sucks right now. All I really own are cargo pants, jeans, and free t-shirts that were handed out at job fairs and things. I need to upgrade to khaki’s and polo shirts for work. I’ll be taking care of that today. Maybe I’ll go crazy and even get some button downs… Shoes are [...]
Undercover Brother
Posted by harvey in Culture on 24. May, 2002 | Comments Off
Wow. I’m in Iowa. I was watching TV, and a commercial for ‘Undercover Brother’ came on… Normally, under no circumstances would I ever be interested in a movie so obviously lame. That would be just as bad as watching ‘The Animal’ or something… You know what I mean. But… Now I’m in Iowa. I should [...]
Packing sucks.
Posted by harvey in Culture on 22. May, 2002 | Comments Off
Packing sucks. And don’t you forget it!
Packing
Posted by harvey in Culture on 21. May, 2002 | Comments Off
Slacker to the very end… I better start packing now. Most of what I have is just books, clothes, cd’s, and my laptop, so I don’t expect to have much trouble moving. I went down to a shipping company in our area called PakMail. I asked some questions about shipping stuff to Tokyo, they sold [...]
Drive
Posted by harvey in Culture on 21. May, 2002 | Comments Off
ドライブ行こう！ Let’s go drive! Huh? Go driving? To where? You just wanna… drive? I was first introduced to the concept of ‘driving for pleasure’ while I was in Japan. Since being back in the states I had completely forgotten about it until a Japanese friend recently reminded me. Maybe it’s because I’m from the Midwest… [...]
Food
Posted by harvey in Culture on 15. May, 2002 | Comments Off
One thing I noticed after being in Japan for sometime was that, not only is the language different, the content of daily conversation also has a particular Japanese twist to it. (duh.) For example, the subject of cute clothes, cute celeberities, and food seemed to come up almost every day. Food. Yeah, we talk about [...]
I wonder what it’ll be like…
Posted by harvey in Culture on 15. May, 2002 | Comments Off
Well, less than 20 days until I hop on the plane and head to Japan for the next huge chunk of my life. I wonder what it is going to be like. Tokyo, geesh. Actually I wish I could have found a job in some other part of Japan, but everything I could find was [...]
Nashville
Posted by harvey in Culture on 12. May, 2002 | Comments Off
一、二週間前に（もう忘れた）Bloomingtonから車で２０分ぐらい離れたNashvilleという町に行ってきた。まゆみさんは、Indianaで有名なNashivilleにまだ行ったことがなかったから一緒に連れて行った。 Nashville はこいう小さくて、落ち着いた町である。Nashvilleは、芸実とか、Craftsに有名で、毎年Indianaのいろいろな所から観光客が遊びに来る。１９９０の財産評価によると、Nashivilleの人口がたったの８７３人だ。私の高校の学生人数の方が多かった。 この写真が結構アメリカ的だと思ったから、隠れて警察がアイスクリームを食べているところの写真と取って見ました。かわいいでしょう？Nashvilleには犯罪が起こることが少ないから、警察さんでもゆっくりする余裕もある。普段はアメリカの警察はアイスクリームじゃなくて、ドーナツを食べるけど。 その白いT-Shirtを着ている肩が私だ。ばれないように、私の前に座っている友達が私の写真を取るふりして、警察の写真を撮った。スパイって感じでしょう？ この次の写真が面白いと思った。なぜかというと、その看板に書いてある言葉。”Coldest Pop in Town”。なるほど。これがNashvilleで一番つめたいか。見つけてよかった！友達のゆこもかなり喜んでいる。 Indianaに住んでいなかったら別にNashvilleに遊ぶ必要はないけど、もし、車を持っているIndiana大学の生徒だったら、是非、一回はいいから、Nashvilleに行ってみればいいと思う。 つまらないことを読ませてすみません。 ハービー
