{"id":2387,"date":"2017-07-13T02:02:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T06:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/?p=2387"},"modified":"2017-07-13T02:02:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T06:02:30","slug":"greetings-from-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/2017\/07\/13\/greetings-from-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Greetings from Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u3053\u3093\u306b\u3061\u306f\u3000\u307f\u3093\u306a\u3055\u3093\u3001<\/p>\n<p>I just had my first week of classes at ICU! Though it seems like forever ago, it was only a week ago that I stepped off of my flight into Haneda airport (the better airport in my limited opinion). Even though the airport is relatively easy to navigate and access, I ran into my first problem when I had to locate the airport post office to pick up a package. I didn&#8217;t know where it was, and had troubled asking for where it was with my jet-lagged mind. For the life of me, I could not remember the word in Japanese for post office (\u90f5\u4fbf\u5c40 <em>yuubinkyoku<\/em> for those curious). It was a simple word that I had heard in class a million times, but when it came to the time when I actually needed it, it escaped my mind. I came to realized the obvious that conversations in a language classroom setting is tremendously different from the everyday interactions. In class, I could speak in set phrases and had time to think about what I was saying. However, in real life Japanese conversation as in other languages conversation, everyone has a different speech pattern and the flow of the conversation is also important to keep in mind. I didn&#8217;t know how much I rely on English in my everyday life until it was absent. I also quickly realized the extent of my limited Japanese skill, and am resolve to study harder this summer to, at the very least, be able to hold a short conversation with the locals around me.<\/p>\n<p>On the hand, Tokyo is truly a city well accustomed to tourists. Before I came to Japan, I was super nervous about navigating the terrifying and convoluted-seeming train system in Tokyo. However, now that I&#8217;m here, I can say that I really like the public transportation they have here. I love how the train could take you almost anywhere in the city, with clear signs and labels in both Japanese and English that is easy to navigate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2388 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/files\/2017\/07\/20170708_165059-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/files\/2017\/07\/20170708_165059-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/files\/2017\/07\/20170708_165059-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/files\/2017\/07\/20170708_165059-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I also really love how pretty ICU is. This campus is probably not the typical Japanese college campus as it was modeled more like an American campus, but I&#8217;m glad for the similarities.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2389  aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/files\/2017\/07\/20170706_055809-e1499925502642-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/files\/2017\/07\/20170706_055809-e1499925502642-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/files\/2017\/07\/20170706_055809-e1499925502642-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/files\/2017\/07\/20170706_055809-e1499925502642-768x1365.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u3053\u3093\u306b\u3061\u306f\u3000\u307f\u3093\u306a\u3055\u3093\u3001 I just had my first week of classes at ICU! Though it seems like forever ago, it was only a week ago that I stepped off of my flight into Haneda airport (the better airport in my limited opinion). Even though the airport is relatively easy to navigate and access, I ran into my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/2017\/07\/13\/greetings-from-tokyo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Greetings from Tokyo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2391,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions\/2391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}