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外人道。Mi vida en Japón
外人道。Mi vida en Japón
nunca me imagine que realmente tendría que hablar tres idiomas para encontrar trabajo por mi mismo en Japón.
I just wrote in our community blog of the Foreigners in Japan (Spanish) about how I found my actual job in Japan.
A couple of week ago on Twitter one of my friends posted:
That phrase stayed on my mind for some strange reason. After that at one of the break times at work, one girl ask me If I had some recommendations for learn English as she tried before but failed. I told her a bunch of techniques but at the end I told her that the most important thing is the attitude and do it. That she shouldn’t be afraid of talk or feel shy, if she overpass that feelings she will move on. I put myself as example, and told her: is like me at the kitchen always whispering when I talk as everybody is watching me I feel so shy but that is not good because I can not move on, so please have confident in yourself and do it. As her break time finished she leave the room, then I just repeat to myself just what I told her in that moment I took my own advice. So far at work everything is in Japanese and my attitude was so shy, I was trying to protect myself, guarding my corner and just defending with every punch I received. When I hear my own advice and remember the phrase of my friend I realized that I have to go to work without be afraid every time somebody talk to me, or ask me for bake some bread or prepare a pizza.“It’s amazing what you can do with you change your attitude”
That day before start working I changed my clothes for my baker clothes in that moment I repeat to myself the same cheer up phrases I used to said to myself back in Mexico when I used to give a conference or explain a Financial statements or lectures or talk to a large public or negotiate contracts about millions of dollars. At that moment my attitude changed completed, when I put my foot on the kitchen floor I wasn’t afraid anymore, I wasn’t afraid to talk and do my work. On that day the bakery was amazing busy but with the “change of attitude” everything changed.
When we learn another language we explore different areas of ourself is not just keep studying everyday until drill and touch bottom, is about feel the language. If you want a trick or shortcut to learn any language I think the attitude and be open mind to the culture will make much easier learn anything.
Usually my victims in their last moments ask me why I like the black color,
Check my post on "Life through the lens"
Hello everyone! I’m writing in english one more time just to introduce you a new blog in which I’m participating with some friends who are also living in Japan. The name of this new project is “Life through the lens” and it’s a photo-blog in where we will try to tell short stories by using photos taken by us… it’s a kind of “artistical-nonsense” photoblog that will show a bit of what we think about our pictures and the motivations behind it.
So, we hope that you all will like itThe link to this blog is: http://photojap.wordpress.com, fell free to comment and enjoy our new “experiment”.
See you all over there!
I'm part of this project "experiment", visit us.
In one more step to define Japan’s slide into international irrelevance, the national sport (kokugi) has decided to turn not only exclusionary, but also undeniably racist. The Japan Sumo Association announced this week that it will no longer count naturalized Japanese sumo wrestlers as “real Japanese”. Then it will limit each stable to one “foreign” wrestler, meaning “foreignness” is a matter of birth, not a legal status. This is a move, we are told by the media, to stop sumo from being “overrun with foreign wrestlers”.
That means that if I wanted to become a sumo wrestler, I would become a foreigner again. Even though I’ve spent nearly a quarter of my life (as in close to ten years) as a Japanese citizen in Japan.
I told you, this going just get more and more ugly, is like Discrimination as national sport XD
