New Years in Japan is like Thanksgiving
So this week is pretty important for families in Japan. Much like Thanksgiving is a time for distant family members to meet and eat dinner together in the US, New Years in Japan is filled with family events.
Here in Maebashi, in the prefecture of Gumma, we are visiting with uncles, aunts, cousins etc. Lots of names to practice for me…
As for Christmas… we watched Avatar. It was a decent movie, entertaining, with great computer graphics (go for the graphics, not the story). We also ate KFC for dinner, look at those rather strange biscuits (look like donuts):



December 30th, 2009 at 9:49 am
On a totally unrelated note, you up for a little homework assignment, Charles?? >_<
I have seen these guys in many many videos on the internetz, but only stumble upon the group unintentionally. I really want to be able to search for their videos, but I have no idea WHO they are! Here are some of their videos -
Game show (they are the red team) -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttrE8ggnFtE
Silent Library (minus Shaq) -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unBp1Ke4LGI
Silent Library 2 -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mUWDV-g-zE
Are they a comedy team or a game show team? I’d really like to have a searchable name to find more videos and maybe some history on the group. I find everything they do to be absolutely hilarious!
Thanks buddy!
December 31st, 2009 at 3:05 pm
***Updated info***
I think the show is called Batsu Games…
January 4th, 2010 at 3:30 am
I’ll have an answer for you soon
Just got back from the holidays in Maebashi… internet access was severely restricted.
January 4th, 2010 at 7:47 am
Ok here it is
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%82%A6%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BF%E3%82%A6%E3%83%B3_(%E3%81%8A%E7%AC%91%E3%81%84%E3%82%B3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%93)
Or google search for
http://www.google.co.jp/search?hl=en&q=%E3%82%AC%E3%82%AD%E3%81%AE%E4%BD%BF%E3%81%84&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=
Or google search for (slightly different)
http://www.google.co.jp/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=%E3%83%80%E3%82%A6%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BF%E3%82%A6%E3%83%B3&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=
January 4th, 2010 at 7:49 am
youtube search
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%E3%82%AC%E3%82%AD%E3%81%AE%E4%BD%BF%E3%81%84&search_type=&aq=f
August 10th, 2010 at 1:09 pm
Oh sweet delicious fried Chicken. You look good no matter what country you are in….
August 10th, 2010 at 10:46 pm
nom nom nom