Daibutsu, Kamakura

Daibutsu, Kamakura
Daibutsu in Kamakura, June 2010. There were thousands of school kids visiting that day. It was still great fun.

Friday, July 23, 2010

Yes I can Use Chopsticks

There is a website called Yes I Can Use Chopsticks that is from an American who teaches English in Fukushima Japan. I often read his online journal which describes his daily adventures and the silliness of certain aspects of Japanese culture. The way he writes about is daily experiences is often hilarious and below is a perfect example. I was cracking up at how he describes below how the school staff go crazy when the bread truck arrives at school.

"A truck selling bread just pulled up and everyone went F-ing crazy to go get some bread. SOME BREAD. Is it laced with heroin? I don’t know, but everyone truly goes crazy when this bread truck pulls up. They have come probably 100 times since I have been here and I have never understood it. They pull up, the office staff announces “the bread truck is here” and people literally scramble and trip over themselves to get out to it to buy…..bread. Simply bread that can be bought at the store. The only thing I can possibly imagine is they have some special contract with us and the teachers are showing their appreciation or something, but still it’s a bread truck. Now if the truck were made of bread, oh I’d run out to see that."
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7 comments:

  1. Thomas Hammerlund5:57 PM

    Interesting site.

    I was an ALT for a school year, and I had time to just write, and write, and write ... It was boring at the time, but I think about it with fond memories now.

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  2. 2cats7:12 PM

    we have a local bread truck too. But it's not the same bread that's sold at the store. It's lush, gorgeous European-style bread that looks, smells and tastes just like bread should. So yes, I too go crazy when the bread truck arrives and parks itself right next to the yakitori van.

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  3. owenandbenjamin8:05 PM

    I probably would go crazy too because I looove bread, especially the bakery bread sold in Japan. I just thought it was funny how he described it.

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  4. Floating Camera6:10 PM

    The last sentence was the funniest. If the truck was made of bread lol. Never actually seen or heard of bread trucks though... There is a guy who normally has some whistle that is selling some type of sweets or something...

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  5. owenandbenjamin6:23 PM

    Yeah I was laughing at that last line also. I haven't actually seen a bread trunk either but I have seen a lot of the hot sweet potato trunks as well as other food trunks driving around the neighborhood in Otawara Tochigi.

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  6. Jamaipanese7:24 PM

    hahaha, I can only imagine how crazy it gets, he should install a hidden camera

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  7. Mike Kenedy10:40 PM

    Maybe those people are addicted to bread. Unless you're right. The truck is made out of bread, even me will run to see that.

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