My diary and some other funny
stuff
Ladies and gentlemen! Are you ready for some fun? Welcome...
My diary
Here in Japan I am faced with a very serious problem: everybody wants to know what I am doing. So
partly for this reason, partly for fun, partly to have some records later, I started to write a diary in
Yokohama. Having moved to Matsumoto, my life has changed a lot, became a lot more boring (in terms of
adventures I could write great stories about) so I stopped writing the diary. Then in March I went home
for two weeks and had to realize that I have a lot more (and a lot more enthusiastic) readers than I had
actually thought; also, there seems to be no other way to keep with my promises to write
everybody; so from this April I started writing again, this time trying to put more emphasis on
the cultural aspects than on my digestion. The diary files are written in Hungarian and stored in ZIP-ped
Microsoft Word 2.0 format. Also, a former diary is included about the one month I first spent in Japan,
having received the two-week scholarship of the Japan Foundation.
So, these are the diary files to download:
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Dave Barry Does
Japan
During October 1995 -- February 1996 I stopped writing the diary. (Yes, the diary file above is not a real
diary, only a few articles about things I eventually found to be worth mentioning, written in April 1996.)
However, partly because I kept getting messages demanding for more letters, and partly because I ran into
Dave Barry's book and found it hilarious, I decided to translate some parts of it -- the results you can get
here below. For those, who do not know the original, I enclose the introduction here and encourage
everybody to get a copy of it... you won't regret it.
How do you know you
have been too long in Japan?
This is a quite well-known article posted to soc.culture.japan a long time ago. Still, there may be a few
who don't know it...