Thursday, February 23, 2012

Toothbrushes, Speed Limits, School Lunch, Girlfriend Decision

This post follows no order of any sort.  Sorry about that.  Just decided to write on random observations before I forget about them.

Apparently Japan's toothbrush companies are only looking at the size of Japanese people's private parts when they decided how big to make their tooth brushes.  Imagine what a child size toothbrush looks like, and that is the size that Japan's adult uses to brush with.  I like what I consider normal sized toothbrushes, but not sure I can draw the rest out until I go back to the US to visit.

Not sure I talked about this before, if I did, then it's just that amazing to me that I have to talk about it again.  Except for maybe 1 or 2 roads in my city, the speed limit EVERYWHERE is 25mph (40kph).  If you think that's slow, it is.  It's like driving through a school zone, except it's the whole city.  Even the freeways are only 50mph (80kph).  Nobody really follows these (except for the old people), and you can find people doing 75mph+ (120kph) on the freeways all the time.  Like usual, whenever I drive I always have this fear that I will be the one who gets caught for doing what everyone else does.  The tickets I hear aren't cheap either, in the range of a few hundred dollars for breaking the speed limit.

When I first got to Japan and started eating school lunch, it sucked.  I felt like they barely give you any food and I was still hungry after finishing.  A little over half a year has passed and now I found myself being content off the school lunches.  Not full, mind you, but content.  The teachers eat the same amount of food that the students do, that means I eat as much as a 7th grader.  Adults need more food man!  Amazingly, my elementary school likes to give me seconds which is about the only reason I like teaching there.

I have officially decided that my trip to Japan will be a failure if I don't get a girlfriend here.

制限速度【せいげんそくど】 (seigen/sokudo) (n) speed limit

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