Eugene

i went to Sahalie falls and Clear lake last saturday w/ some int'l students. there r more ppl who r related to jpn or japanese in OR than in MN. i saw 3 japanese girls, 3 american women who lived in jpn more than i do, and 1 half-japanese girl. except the 3 japanese girls, everyone that i mentioned speak both english and japanese so fluently. they r totally bilingual.

they talked to me both in japanese and english. but i felt more comfortable wen i talked to them in english. that s bcz their looking is totally american (except the half-japanese girl)!! i felt a lil bit weird. i asked one of them which is easy to speak in english or in japanese, and she said to me, "japanese." 「こう見えても日本人ですから。」

yes, they made rice balls (おにぎり) for us and used japanese wen they talked w/ each other like 「一口ちょうだい」. i really felt weird and interesting.

there r two kinds of ppl. one is an egg which means a person whose looking is white but inside is asian. (this fits them. their looking is white but grew up in jpn.) and the other is a banana which means a person whose looking is asian but inside is american (parents r asian but grew up in US). thats really interesting.

and the half-japanese girl mixed both languages. she talked like, "my sister came to c me this summer blablabla....って盛り上がってー、then my friend called me blablabla....." or "where r u from? kyoto!!??　えーーー超良いじゃーーーん！！" like that.lol

that was so funny and i envy her.

てな感じでした。まじ見た目が白人さんで、なんか日本語普通に話せるって分かってても、関西弁使っても分かるかなー？とか思っちゃってどうしても日本語が喋りにくくて、一緒に来てた純日本人の女の子達がほとんど英語話せへんの分かってても、英語ばっか使ってまいました。まあその為にアメリカ来たから良いんやけどねー笑）あーーーなんかすっごい不思議な感覚やった（笑）因みにうちこのハーフの子に似てるそうです。目と顔の丸いとこが似てると。笑）なんか複雑です。普通にハーフっぽいとか言われると嬉しいけど、この説明の仕方なんかねー丸いですけどねーどうせー笑