I’m encouraging my Japanese exchange students to blog their way through their experiences here this semester.
Today’s reflection produced a concise series of pros and cons about this fair outpost, which I summarise below. With which, save Vegemite, can one really disagree?
Pros
- Open vistas
- Clean cities
- Parks and gardens
- Salad
- Opportunities for walking
- Early nights and early rising
Cons
- Strong sunlight
- Sweet foods too sweet
- Recalcitrant bus-drivers
- Scarcity of native birds
- Vegemite
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“Recalcitrant bus-drivers” – your paraphrasing, surely?!
I cannot tell a lie; ’twas I who paraphrased. In the original story, a bus pulled over en route and the bus driver disappeared. Fifteen minutes later, the student, fearing mechanical failure, realised the bus driver was talking to a friend outside the bus.
Hopefully she can get through the semester without meeting any racist bus drivers; I’ve been on the bus often enough to see driverly attitudes that suggested an underlying impatience (at best) with Asian students.