While I never ordered pizza while in Japan, I did look at plenty of their strange (to me) menu items! I also bought a book in Japanese that talks about pizza. Check it out below:
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There were days while I was in Japan that I would spend indoors, even if the weather was nice. I would be on my computer or watching TV or reading books in English. While these are not bad things, these were things I could be doing back in America. So, I wanted to share this "menu" with you that I got from Maruto--a grocery store in Japan. Even if you can't read Japanese, it is still interesting to see what they like to eat for Christmas!
A few weeks before returning to America, I was contacted by one of the Japanese teachers from my hometown in Iowa. She told me that she was going part-time and that the other 3 hours of Japanese were going to be available.
Excited, I applied for the job, even though I had not passed the Oral Proficiency Interview in Japanese that was required by my university in order for me to obtain my teaching license. I had taken the test before I left for Japan, but had only received Intermediate Mid. In order to pass, I need to be at the Advanced Low level. This list is in no particular order, just things that I miss about Japan that I cannot get/do here in Iowa.
"Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwrecks." --Robert Louis Stevenson There were two houses that really stuck out to me during my year in Japan.
One was just down the street from where I lived and the other was in the downtown area. Let me talk about the first one before I go on to the more interesting one. "The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery." --Mark Van Doren Oh man was I bad at it when I first started. I didn't even know what I was supposed to be doing!
Sure, my predecessor(s) left me examples of what they did, but without the connection to the textbooks to see which grammar point they were using or a play-by-play of how it was supposed to go, I was totally lost. And it didn't exactly help when my JTEs gave me the half smile and head turn when I asked what I should prepare for class. Remember: when disaster strikes, the time to prepare has passed. --Steven Cyros I think it was during my first few months in Japan that the news brought up the concern of the biggest typhoon of that year.
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