I better at least get a decent digital camera, I suppose.
Bad joke. 
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Alaan had this to say about Punky Brewster:
I'll make this official for nearly all of us. I hate you!
Thanks Alaan, my hatred for his fortune resonates with this. 
P.S Happy for you, bring back pocky 
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Waisz had this to say about Captain Planet:
I better at least get a decent digital camera, I suppose.
Yes, yes, indeed. Be sure to find one of those shops that sells half-hour naps!
p.s. hatred!
It's a 6-week study abroad program and I'll probably spend another week in Japan touring after the schooling part. 
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Vise the Stompy probably says this to all the girls:
When do you leave for the magical journey?
I have to meet a few times with the office but I believe it's early to mid June.
My school, Richland High School, is only about four miles from Hanford; the site where plutonium for Fat Man was produced. We are called the Richland High Bombers--our mascot is a large, imposing mushroom cloud.
For a period of time, we had a sister school in Nagasaki, Japan.
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Vorbis wrote, obviously thinking too hard:
Story time!My school, Richland High School, is only about four miles from Hanford; the site where plutonium for Fat Man was produced. We are called the Richland High Bombers--our mascot is a large, imposing mushroom cloud.
For a period of time, we had a sister school in Nagasaki, Japan.
Your story has "politcal correctness" written all over it. 
Grats, Waisz. How's your jaw?
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So quoth Suddar:
I live in a boring old mill town and our mascot is the ghost of our school's founder!Grats, Waisz. How's your jaw?
Thanks, I was a little surprised at how easy it was to get accepted for this.
I'm doing pretty well with my jaw. I can eat 'soft foods' now (hey, everything is softer than a diamond, so comparatively it is soft, right? ), and I've regained all weight. My mouth healed up completely.
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Waisz had this to say about Pirotess:
Your story has "politcal correctness" written all over it.
Better yet, every time there's been a student movement to change the mascot, it's always been easily defeated. Very PC.
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Nobody really understood why Vorbis wrote:
Better yet, every time there's been a student movement to change the mascot, it's always been easily defeated. Very PC.
There were people out protesting Chief Illiniwek on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, as a racist symbol. I imagine they were very cold.
Anyways. Bring back many pictures, and maybe any suitably bizarre trinkets.
obligatory hate
Waisz fucked around with this message on 01-26-2005 at 03:19 PM.
Well, at least they're teaching me Japanese before I go there.
Are you going to be taking classes, doing an internship, or some other activity while there, or some mix of the three? Taking classes in a foreign language is extremely difficult, heck, just understanding some of my lecturers here is tough. Hipefully any classes you take will be taught in English, or you've got enough of a grasp on the language to pick all of the info up. Taken a course taught entirely in French and I had to repeatedly ask for help. Sorta why I decided to go with an English-speaking country (aside from it being one of the few places where I could get English credit).
Japan would be a great place to vacation, but I wouldn't want to take classes there.
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And I was all like 'Oh yeah?' and Azrael Heavenblade was all like:
snip.
This is a program set up for people who only know English. As of right now I know no Japanese! None! Zilch!
As you can see, there is going to be a small piece of time (Japn 199) dedicated to learning it, and the course is such that it's meant to teach the few of us going to Japan this summer to be ready to live there and not to do anything else, so it'll be much more efficient than normal language classes. I start it tonight... should be fun.
In Japan, I'm taking classes which are tought in English. Which subjects? Japanese language and culture! Again, this summer program is just to get whoever goes on it up to speed on how to interact with Japanese on a normal basis. It will certainly be very interesting, and I am not afraid of it at all. I'm usually not afraid of things I should be, though... I think it means I'm just dumb. Since no prior knowledge was required, though, I can only hope that it will be set up to guide me to have a decent time in Japan.
With any luck, I'll continue learning Japanese afterwards and then set up classes over a semester, maybe in my Junior year. At that point I'll probably be taking classes in Japanese on possibly something like Engineering, but I think by then I'd be much more ready.
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Azrael Heavenblade had this to say:
And surprisingly a lot of people were jealous that I'm studying abroad in Scotland at the moment.
You are?!
Mortious picks up his radio and calls the RAF for a bombstrike over the border, but is disappointed when they just fly over and yell "BANG!" from the cockpit.
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From the book of Waisz, chapter 3, verse 16:
This is a program set up for people who only know English. As of right now I know no Japanese! None! Zilch!
You own like, 480 gigabytes of anime.
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A sleep deprived Lashanna stammered:
You own like, 480 gigabytes of anime.
Oh, right. 
Awesome, Japanese 199 is actually 1 hour long on T/W and teaches language. On Thursday, it's 2 hours long as scheduled and teaches culture.
The language class is almost 100% spoken, almost no written.
Yeah.
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Lashanna stumbled drunkenly to the keyboard and typed:
You own like, 480 gigabytes of anime.
The backwards grammar makes it hideus to pick up more than a few simple words.
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Skaw was naked while typing this:
Hey guys, Japan isn't all Anime and Video Games like so many nerds dream.
No shit?
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Skaw painfully thought these words up:
The big cities are pretty much like ours. I have no doubt Waisz will be mugged by a 5'4" Japanese man.
No, shithead.
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Skaw stopped beating up furries long enough to write:
Hey guys, Japan isn't all Anime and Video Games like so many nerds dream. The big cities are pretty much like ours. I have no doubt Waisz will be mugged by a 5'4" Japanese man.
I think most people realize the "otaku" are basically one of their nerd type groups. But Japan also has the coolest gadgets ever, and vending machines for everything.
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There was much rejoicing when Alaan said this:
I think most people realize the "otaku" are basically one of their nerd type groups. But Japan also has the coolest gadgets ever, and vending machines for everything.
Actually there aren't that many different gadgets there than here. A few things may be slightly smaller or larger than their counterparts here, but when I was over there I didn't really see anything that new or unique. As for vending machines, they don't really have everything. Alot of them are just food, drinks, or beer, or small toys if you go near a kids/anime shop.
