Friday- jeans day

So, In AA friday at Toyota is Jeans day. This is my favorite day because I have to do the least thinking while getting dressed.... plus, it gives me something to look forward to while the week is dragging. In Japan, i don't know what friday is... some people wear jeans all the time, some people wear suits. Of course i asked if there was Jeans Day in Japan, but I couldn't get a straight answer. I wore a mute cream shirt to offset my bright yellow skirt.

Anyone who knows Japanese. Brian has started saying "domo arigato kudasi" (3 of his 7 overly used words)... i have only heard him say this... is it a realy Japanese phrase. "thank you please"?

In Japan, they often make statements in short bullet points, we are supposed to learn how to do this (otherwise our documents aren't read)... I will practice in my blog.

LEARNED

• Japanese learn to make dots and crosses before making vertical lines.... so they dot their i's and cross their t's before they are even created
• Every thing here smells like smoke, my room, sheets, the office. The office especially. There are designated smoking "rooms" (we would call them closets), but there is not ventilation for the smoke to leave the building.... just gets circulated into the air system.
• The told us to bring Snacks to Japan... what "snacks" really means, is to bring food to eat so you don't starve to death during your visit. I should have brought more snacks....
  
• .... on that note: we found that Hard Rock Cafe is behind our hotel... $20 for spaghetti.
• Japanese have a secret technology against the heat that they don't share... I am sweating and burning up... and people are wearing sweaters and jackets! I don't even know how they can do it!
• Gum can be dangerous. I was offered some gum by our translator (a very friendly woman named Tomoko).... so not knowing the danger of the situation, i took it. It was in a green wrapper so I thought it was mint... it wasn't. I believe the closest thing the flavor could be is that it tasted like Mentholedum smells. I couldn't spit it out... right infront of her.... i had to chew it.
• Toyota recycles everything. I was trying to through away my gum (after a good 10 mins) and there were (i am not kidding) 11 different trash cans.... with closed lids, just holes to drop things in. I have been taking my trash home every night becauseI couldn't figure out the system, but today i had to ask.
  

LIKED

• Some Guy asked us yesterday about our favorite food and drink.... to day he brought some. I got cheese and a cold coffee drink like a frappicino but better!
• I like to see westerners. It makes me happy. I think it makes them happy too, becuase whenever I see one we exchange smiles... like we are bonded somehow.
• I was finishing my Dave Barry novel on the bus, and at the end he talked about how polictical activist usually stand around with a microphone shout on the streets so loud you would never stop to listen. Then i got off the train and there was a lady yelling so loudly peoples ears were bleeding, and holding a sign. I feel good because I knew what was going on.

I failed in making short bullet points.

Tomorrow is the expo. I will have pictures!