Foreign Experiences

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I just rememebered about when I went to Japan that even though it was for educational purposes and college credit we did experience some stuff. Nothing racist more like... nationalistist... lol whatever. There was this time when 3 of the girls and I left the hotel to go get a evening snack when we were in Kyoto and we were allowed to get something to eat. We went to a small little Japanese store to order some rice and brocolli and they had this really delicious sesame sauce that I NEED to find in New York. So my friend said "mmm this Chinese food is soo good". She made a dumb mistake but oh my goodness the owner freaked out like crazy. He was like "is not Chinese is Japanese!" and he was literally pissed off and he kicked us out the store calling us "Amerika-jin bakas" meaning American idiots. We did go back with a 1000 yen tip and an apology but he was still fumed. That's one time.

Our first day in Tokyo the entire group walked to a restuarant and after we had dinner we went to a store to get snacks and we saw four Japanese businessmen looking at Anime porn. DISTURBING! lol but we were laughing because it's not something we usually see lol. And when we went to the Eko School (a Japanese High School) and I'm sorry Japanese school girls are sooo stereotyped because they are absolutely nothing like how people think of it. They are so much fun, very funny, laugh at everything. Skirts a kinda short though cough cough. They were fascinated with my hair and kept rubbing my skin saying "so soft so soft" lol. But they were lot's of fun. They had me braid their hair which was kind of hard lol. The most interesting besides the community shower (which yes I did wear a bathing suit along with some other New Yorkers lol) was the girls gym class that we had with them. I did feel uncomfortable with the itty bitty shorts and shirt I felt like I was wearing an 8 year old's clothing lol. But they seriously rocked the house.

Just wanted to point those things out. How bout you guys. Any experiences?

Why are people so sensative about their race, it pisses me off. People used to confuse me with being australian when i was in america. It didnt bother me at all, because they didnt mean it offensively. Really he should have been the one apologising to you guys for being an angry jackass. You dont act like that to people, he should have corrected your mistake if he was bothered. Hes just pissed because america dropped a big bomb on his country and that you guys dont eat dog meat. See now if I say that it makes me racist because I'm a caucasion but if he does it he just doesnt like America.

No, he's a bigot too. They come in all races, religions, and colors.

There has to be a bit of a difference though between saying 'this is good Chinese food' if you're in a Japanese restaurant in your home country, for example, and saying the same thing if you're in Japan itself, LOL!

Imagine going to France, having a wonderful soufflé, and saying, "What wonderful English food!"The difference is that Chinese food is good. (* ducking *)

Well, if you said that in some places you'd be lucky to live until the food digested..

Really Homicidal.possum Being mistaken for an Australian!!That must have been quite flattering

Hmmm I have many funny/weird/disturbing foreign experiences...

1. I was taken to Thailand when I was 2. The locals were facinated with my chubby cheeks, I got them pinched all day, so much in fact that they came out in bruises the next day.

2. In Turkey a group of my friends and I were talking to a guy with very little english, trying to sell us 'hugo boos' cologne. We were having a laugh with him and he asked where we were from. We said New Zealand, he didn't know. He asked "Allemagne?" (Back in the Ottoman days rich Turks were schooled in France, so they adopted the French names for countries) and all that. So we tried 'Nouvelle Zelande', no luck. As our last resort we tried 'ANZAC' (Australia New Zealand Army Corps), which was the force that invaded the Dardenelles back in World War 1. The guy seemed to have a little bit of history knowledge and looked a little pissed off we associated ourselves with a force that took 1000s of his countrymen's lives. He just walked off on us. Either that or we called him something rude in Turkish.

3. Me and my buddies were staying in a Turkish hotel. In the evening we had a few drinks and were feeling a bit tipsy. On the same night a local school was holding a function, a leavers' dinner or something. They were all dressed very nicely. We went downstairs as they were arriving and asked one of the hotel staff what "beautiful" was in Turkish. We then proceeded to yell out "Merhaba, kali!" (Hello, beautiful!) as the girls walked past. Their male partners were not impressed and a bunch of them comfronted us. If not for some alert hotel staff, we would have been scrapping them. I still don't know if 'kali' actually means beautiful or not.

4. In Dubai, returning from Europe. My friend didn't realise that alcohol was banned there. When being cleared by customs his bag was randomly checked and half a bottle of vodka (the same bottle used above) was found. He received a very stern telling off and a warning by the officials but managed to get away scott free.

The guys food is his art, so he naturally feels protective of it. You cant presume race has anything to do with it, hes just proud of his Japanese cuisine.

I have been all over western Europe, but no particular exciting experience comes to mind, except the many splendid sights I saw. In a few weeks I'm off hitchhiking from Calais, France, through Belgium and Germany to Prague, Czech Republic. Maybe something exciting will happen then.

In a few weeks I'm off hitchhiking from Calais, France, through Belgium and Germany to Prague, Czech Republic.Sounds like a lot of fun... can I tag along

lol why not! All A2A should come to Prague and party with us!

Sounds like a plan to me!