Are you ready to go! We are going to try for the top. Alright. Let’s do it. We’ll rough it!We’re going to go try it out. Over the weekend we did go hiking, on a mountain. We usually go to mt. Takao because you know it’s easy. So we went to a mountain that has a little bit better view of Fuji-san thats behind Mt. Takao. And ugh…. Boy my family hated me! Everybody was crying. Nobody could climb the mountain. They were so frustratedat this mountain. Because you know, there’s no scenery, no flat parts. It was just up up up up up! So we went up to 2,100 m… what is that called… height… We went up to.. What is it called!? I’m forgetting English! I’m going to get it… No, I feel like it starts with a T… Elevation! Doesn’t start with a T! There we go. So we went up to an elevation of 2100m. Which is way higher than Mt. Takao. I thought it was a great hike. There was a mountain fire up there. Always something! Always something! Usually, I’m a die hard black coffee type of guy. Just straight hot black coffee. Nothing else. But recently these things are pretty good! Where did we leave off? I have no idea. It’s been a day. It’s been 2 days. I did a lot of thinking. Everybody knows, if you don’t know already, I stopped taking the trains to work. Because I hate waiting. It’s kind of like a giant line, taking the trains all the way to work. So I stopped that and I started walking to work! If you don’t know about that. There is a like to the video somewhere. You can see the whole reason why. ******************* She told me this… When I asked my wife, she told me… She said “I don’t like waiting in line as my as much as the normal or typical Japanese person” What is that suppose to mean?! Like… Do people actually like waiting in line? And I don’t think that is true. ********************* Important question! Very important question. Are you ready? Do you guys like waiting in line? No! (No!) ******************** Yeah, I don’t think anyone really enjoys waiting in line, right! So why do they do it? It’s just because Or why is Japan known for waiting in line? And I think its because there are just so many different like restaurants for example. There are so many different local restaurants that are not chain restaurants. That are like famous for something. And like everything in Japan is famous for something. It got me thinking about, like ok, what type of lines did I like to wait in? And it’s like yeah… I don’t like waiting in lines, but I did wait in a few lines. Like for one, when Nintendo wii came out. I did wait for a Nintendo Wii! Or iPhone! I actually waited for an iPhone one time, the second iPhone I think that ever came out. And you know what… It is fun waiting in those lines! Those lines are really fun because, you get in there and there’s a community! I was playing games with the people in front of me. We were all talking about… All You know… It’s a community thing. It was fun! I had a lot of fun doing that! Maybe the people in Japan also have a lot of fun?! You know, waiting for the Ramen shop and comparing notes like “this place is really famous for…” I don’t know… I don’t eat Ramen, I’m more of an Udon guy. So bad example, people don’t wait in line for Udon shops though, do they? ********************** I am a power drinker of these, man. I need like two more. Yeah man, so lines. I think, why is Japan known for waiting in lines? I think it’s just tons of people. And there are lots of things to see. And so there’s going to be some person who wants to wait in line for that one specific thing. I wouldn’t do it for a lot of things. But for a Nintendo Wii, I did it once. Also, the whole thing about nobody cuts in line… because you know Japan is like a really awesome place. And everybody is super polite… Yeah everybody was super polite. And they didn’t want to fight or anything like that. But I did get cut in line! Several times! And at Disneyland of all places, right So Stephen I went… Over the weekend I went hiking with the kids. A little too difficult of a mountain. What we did notice was there are like lots of little farms, or like farming villages. And they are always sharing there food. There is like this box, where its like go ahead Free food. Free vegetables! Which was pretty awesome. I don’t know. Something that I never really saw in America. So I want to know, what do you think? Alright, I’ll cya Thursday man, Peace!
Vocabulary
Cut in line / Of all places / Comparing Notes / Community1. ___________ = the least expected place compared to anywhere else
2. ___________ = exchange ideas, opinions, or information on a subject
3. ___________ = to go ahead in order to be served or dealt with first
4. ___________ = a group of people with something in common
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