Productive day

Today has been a very productive day. I begun the studying the first thing in a morning and continued 6 hours with a breakfast break. The result was 24 new kanji learned which helped me to fill the gap what the last weeks of August left. So now I'm once again in a right speed, but my right hand disagrees badly with the entire writing practice I have done today ^^.

I spent some time yesterday watching videos from different Youtube bloggers (who blog about Japan) like Rachel and Jun and Kanadajin3. I find it interesting to hear different experiences and I have to say that some of the tips they have given, if we would have known those when we first time visited Japan, some things would have been much easier. So I warmly recommend following those channels, especially Rachel and Jun are very nice to follow.

Some of those videos raises questions of course. One video told that Japanese don't use any deodorant and of course when you compare it with our culture in Finland it sounds really weird. One of our friends has been in Japan as an exchange student and she has confirmed this info for us earlier, but it still feels odd. In Japanese culture there is also plenty of rules about behavior that are very important but if you don't know those rules, you might break them but no-one will note that up for you.

The culture of ignoring misbehavior in order not to misbehave yourself is pretty interesting and gives a lot to think about. For example during our last visit in Tokyo, people in trains would just sit quiet doing their own things, just like in Finland. Speaking in a phone in a train is considered highly rude and there are signs that tell you not to speak in your phone in a train. However, if someone does this, nobody really says anything, they just maybe give you a bad look and continue what they were doing and that is a complete opposite what would happen in Finland. Here someone would shout that someone to shut up or at least would mumble to a closest person how irritating that one person is being.

I'm highly fascinated by this twist in Japanese culture. I often feel like some of the Finnish melancholic attitude comes from complaining out loud about everything and people tend to hang on with the unequal and bad happenings so long that they forgot to move on. I look forward to see the difference since in Japan it sometimes feels like they let go about things even too easily and move on.