A year in Nagasaki

A desription of my final preparations during august and the fun time in Amsterdam during that time up to my year at the university of Nagasaki from the 1st october 2005 thru august 2006. Together with 9 other students from the University of Leiden, Holland, we are on an extra-curricular year to improve our conversational skills. Will it work ??

Monday, November 14

Japanese Culture and C&A.

As mentioned before last friday we had our first lecture on Japanese culture and it was delightful.... A mother and daughter in traditional kimonos tried to instruct us...foreign savages, to dance the 'Sakura Sakura' dance..a dance performed when the Japanese go out to watch the cherry blossoms in the spring..with fan. But alas 10 people in a tiny japanese room with tatami mats..it some how didn't quite work out. They tried, the poor dears.

By the way in Holland we have this big Dutch store called C&A where you can buy reasonably priced clothes (definitely not for the ueberhip) that will last a couple of years or so .... So it doesn't come as a great surprise that Ruud, Mads and Bart had bought their first suits ever here...same brand name but slightly different, to take to Japan..just in case you would need a suit for something really important....
Mads went for a more hip colour and the others for a more demure (is that the word?) colour i.e. greyish black.

1 Comments:

  • At 7:23 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Hi Paul,

    I've missed a couple of days so was fascinated to read all the new stuff. Hope you are well and happy. Nice to see a touch of elegance re-entering your life - the bedside cabinet thing! As for the NY marathon -
    I sent a congratulatory e-mail to Poppins so I hope he got it. I was very impressed!!! I think I would happily have paid to see 10 Dutch people doing a Japanese dance in an enclosed space. I can only imagine the hilarity. You should be used to enclosed spaces though - can be a bit packed at Exit as I remember.
    Hope you have a fab time in Tokyo. Speak soon,
    Chris
    xxx

     

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