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A baptism of fire
2008-07-29
You know, standing your middle finger up means extremely rude and insult behavior. This is just my delusion, but I had considered that discreet adults, especially elderly people wouldn't do that. I actually had never received such an expression until then.When I was driving my car and tried to turn right on the red signal. In America, we can turn right even the signal indicates red light, if no sign to prohibit turning right.
Yes, when I was about to turn right on the red signal from Randolph Road to Rockville Pike toward north, the oncoming car just came to the same lane turning left.
I don't think that was
And then....
She gave me a greeting - standing her middle finger up.
Ohh..... it was the first time for me to have such a baptism.......
I'm so timid that I somehow felt down about that at that time.
But I don't care about it anymore!
Anyway that was my first experience to have a baptism by overseas style.
中指を立てる行為ってものすごく失礼で侮辱的な行為ですよね。
私は分別のある大人はそんなことしないと思い込んでおりました。勝手な妄想ですけど。。。
アメリカの信号は右折禁止の表示がなければ赤信号でも右折できるんですよ。
そう、ランドルフロードからロックビルパイクを赤信号で右折しようとした時の事、
ちょうど対向車が左折してきて同じ車線に来ました。 そんなに危ない状況ではなかったと思うんだけどな〜.....、私の運転が煩わしかったのかな....
対向車のお年寄りの女性に中指立てられました。。。。
ヘタレな性格ゆえ、その時は何だかヘコみました。。。お年寄りはそんなことしないって思っていただけに。（勝手な思い込み）
でも、もう気にしないもんね。
とにかく、これが初めて受けた海外形式の“洗礼”でした。
Milk
2008-07-10
American Milk is so big. 
I was really surprised at the size, when I saw it at the first time.
Look at the picture. It has 1 gal. (1 gallon= about 3.8l) Comparing to Japanese regular sized milk (1000 ml), it is almost 3 times.
In Japan, we can buy small sized milk at the grocery stores. The smaller milk I said, is 500 ml or so. As far as I know, no small sized milk in the US which is like a Japanese smaller one.
My friend told me that she was looking for small sized milk as same as Japanese one, when she had just moved to the US. It was hard to find it, but she finally found small sized.
She bought it and then drank it.
However,,,, it was not a milk, but a whipping cream. yeah, whipping cream also bigger than Japanese one.
She thought " How thick American milk is!!!"
Giant at Montrose road.
アメリカの牛乳はでかい。
レギュラーサイズは3.8l 。小さいサイズ＝half gallon= 1.9l 。生クリームも同様にでかい。
日本の小さいサイズの牛乳（５００ ml) は私の知る限りではないと思います。
友達の話。
彼女がアメリカに来たての頃、小さいサイズの牛乳(500 ml)を探していた。けど、見つからない。でもそれっぽい小さいサイズのものを発見。
彼女はそれを買って、飲んだ。
それ、牛乳じゃなくて生クリームだったそうだ。
彼女は「なんてアメリカの牛乳は濃いんだ！！」と思ったそうだ。
Unknown Plants
2008-06-17
Have you ever heard that there are plants called "Poison Ivy" or "Poison Oak"? When I heard about Poison Oak, it suddenly came upon me that there was a monster in the RPG like this picture. ↓here's my image of Poison Oak at that time.
ポイズンオークがあらわれた！ コマンド？
→たたかう じゅもん
にげる どうぐ
As far as I know, these plants have a chemical called "urushiol" in the sap. Once you touch it, it will be absorbed into your skin and cause terrible rashes. Too bad, urushiol is hard to be absorbed into the water, so we should throw away the cloth stained with urushiol. If you want to know it, you should google it, and you'll find many horrible articles and pictures......
ポイズンアイビー、ポイズンオークと呼ばれる植物があるのを聞いた事がありますか？
ポイズンオークと聞いて、私はドラクエに出てくるこの画像のような敵キャラかと思った。
これらの植物は 樹液中に "ウルシオール”（日本の漆から名付けられた）と呼ばれる化学物質を含んでおり、触るとひどいかぶれを起こすそうです。しかも水に溶けない為、ウルシオールに汚染された服は捨ててしまった方が良いそうです。汚染された服を再び着ると、また症状が出るんだそうな。くわばらくわばら。。。。Poison Ivyで検索すると、恐ろしい記事や画像を目にする事でしょう。
By the way,
I've been bitten by gnats in the US. My both calves were swelled up impossibly with a heavy
I found it!
But... the ointment was not for
余談
アメリカでブヨに両ふくらはぎを刺され、ひどい痒みを伴いありえないくらいに脚が腫れ上がった。そういえば、日本にいる間に薬局からいくつか試供品を貰ったなぁ。たしかその中にかゆみ止めの軟膏（ムヒ）があったはず！
あったよ軟膏！
だけどそれ、ムヒじゃなくてボラギノールだったよ。 orz......
My surprising things in USA
2008-05-16
I was very surprised at huge size of the Cup when I saw it for the first time.I think you might imagine something championship cup, but it's not the cup.
The cup, I'm just going to mention, is about "Lingerie." I had never seen such kind of the lingerie which had extremely huge cups in my life. It seemed to be so huge as to wear as a hat and it looked like a "Donburi"- a big bowl, we call it "Donburi" in Japanese. The lingerie shop at the department was just as a big bowl shop for me. Anyway, huge! I was overwhelmed by the giant cups of American size bras.
Oh, Do you want to try it?
アメリカサイズの下着はとても巨大だ。ブラのカップはまるでどんぶりの様で、帽子として被れるくらい十分な大きさかと思われた。下着コーナーはまるでどんぶり市のように見えた。大きい。とにかくでかい。初めて見た時は圧倒されました。
Next my surprising thing is here.
Oh, how appetizing sponge cakes they look! Do you know about these cakes? The name of these cakes is "Twinkie". Have you ever tried it? I'm afraid not yet. I was very surprised when I knew the calories it had. How much calories does it have per each do you think?
Each Twinkie has about 145 kilo calories.
However, there are many high calorie snacks in Japan, too, so it's not so surprising thing, but I found the article refers to "Fried Twinkie" on wikipedia. I don't think necessary to fry it which has already baked up with a vanilla cream, moreover. I was surprised at the way to eat.
About Twinkie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkie
このおいしそうなスポンジケーキ、Twinkie(トゥインキー)は一本あたりのカロリーが145 kcalもある。でも日本にだって高カロリーなスナックはたくさんあるからそんなに驚くべきことではない。だが、wikipediaに"揚げTwinkie"なる記事を発見。バニラクリームたっぷりのスポンジケーキを更に揚げるかね。。私は揚げる必要はないと思うんだけどなぁ....。食べ方に私は驚いた。
Japanese Hibachi is NOT Hibachi in the US
2008-04-14
When we heard of "HIBACHI", we would imagine a device like these pictures.Yes, In Japan, Hibachi is known to us as a kind of heating device using charcoals.
I would see lots of advertisements written "HIBACHI" in the US., but what I saw in the US was quite different from usual Japanese Hibachi.
What Hibachi do you imagine?
Japanese HIBACHI
Talking of Hibachi in the US, it is known as a portable cooking apparatus or cooking style using a gas-heated hot plate at the steak house. The chef affords us good entertainment with juggling act. The style is almost as same as we just call it "Teppan yaki" in Japan.
I've ever tried Hibachi grill at steak house in the US. That was pretty good!
HIBACHI in America
↓Here is HIBACHI grill.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=P9SUw0ARqwc
アメリカでHibachiといえば、ポータブルバーベキューセット、もしくは鉄板焼き（もれなくジャグリングのような芸付き）のことを指します。アメリカ人に鉄板焼きって何？と聞かれたら、Hibachiと言えば１発で伝わると思います。
Oh, America has also FUTON, but it is not Futon which we usually imagine.
They refer to the furniture as FUTON which can be used not only as a couch but also as a bed.
I was surprised to know the difference between America and Japan.
そうそう、アメリカにもFutonがあるんですよ。でもFuton にして布団に非ず。
カウチにもベッドにもなる家具、それがFuton。（左：FUTON / 右：和式布団）
参考文献
http://www.excite.co.jp/News/bit/00091117673827.html
Left: FUTON / Right: Japanese style FUTON
