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Tilting Towards Kumamoto · 28 July 04

When we passed Mt. Fuji, the camera-happy tourists shifted to the windows so fast I thought we’d tip the damn plane.

Photo of people crowding one side of the plane

Not that I wasn’t one of them:

Overhead view of Mount Fuji

When not complicating flight ballast, I practiced my self-introduction in Japanese.

Greetings
My name is Saleem.
I come here from Brooklyn, in America.
It’s quite nice to meet you.

Which is all a bit more complicated when you’re just memorizing phonetics in a not-yet-comprehensible foreign language.

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  2. you know what helps me learn a new language? watching soap operas.

    good luck with your first class dude!
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