| 小夜鳴鳥 ( @ 2008-10-21 21:50:00 |
| Current location: | On the floor of my room and very happy about it |
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| Current music: | Witch Hunter Robin OST |
Random Thoughts, round 1
So there won't be a big entry with pictures after all tonight, as I didn't know before that I was going to have to do some research concerning one seminary of my french uni now. But somehow I feel bad always promising things and never being able to do what I wanted to, so instead, have some miserable random thoughts of my humble self. Because heck, what is an internet connection in your very room good for if not for some spontaneous and totally unneeded jabbering on your blog while slurping your late dinner that are those overcooked instant miso ramen? *g*
Today, for some reason, one of our tutor graced us with a short presentation of the japanese "dating pattern". And while we, after an awkward moment of silence, began to stammer, as a reply to how western people start to date, about presents, long talks and overall growing intimacy which might (or might not) be followed by a confession any time later, according to our tutor (as far as I did understand), the Japanese start with a confession and begin to date when the response to the confession was "positive".
So either I did misunderstand some part of her explanation, or our tutor doesn't know all about dating in Japan yet... or those countless clichéd confession scenes in shôjo (girls') manga were a lot closer to reality than I would ever have thought possible. And for some reason the mental image of grown-ups sheepishly handing over their pink rabu-rabu (read: love love) letters to their love interest, like seen in oh so many teenage romance manga, scares me a lot more than it should. *coughs* Claire (the other one from my university in Paris) mumbled something about that being the method that children would use where we come from, to which our tutor only laughed at the cultural difference...
Seriously, I'm not sure how to classify that one. On the one hand, she is still very young (or looks very young, don't ask me how old she actually really is), but she doesn't exactly look like the typical romance-crazy airhead either... Any experience/knowledge on that matter? Is it just me who has a hard time picturing grown-ups in the stereotype teenage "I like you, do you want to go out with me?"-pattern, cultural differences or not...? *iz confuzzled*
On an almost-unrelated-but-then-still-frighten