marriage and divorce.

Compared to American, I guess Japanese thinks devorce is more really serious problem.
It is because they care how others think about them if they devorce.
They also care how others treat their children if their parents divorced.(they are afraid of being bullied.) because of this, many people decide to devorce when their children grow up.

When I was in the U.S., I was living with my host family for a semister. my host father is a step father. and Many waseda friends who was also studying in the U.S. and living with host family said their host family adopted a child, they devorced, marry again, or something like that.

ﾃﾞｰﾄ＜３

日本人はアメリカ人に比べて彼氏や彼女がいる人が少ないし、初めて異性とつきあったりするのも遅いと思います。

その理由として
①彼氏・彼女がいなくても充分に楽しく遊べる
（逆にアメリカにいたときに感じたのは、彼氏みないな存在のいつでも尽くしてくれる車を持っている人がいないと危険だし、充分には遊べない人）

②なんとなく親に後ろめたい
（彼氏や彼女のことを親に黙っている人がほとんど!結婚がきまってやっと親に教える。。。って人もいるくらい。）
があげられると思います。
またﾃﾞｰﾄも理由②であげたとおり親にいっていない人がほとんどなので、実家暮らしの人はほとんど家では遊びません。映画見に行ったりディズニーいったりドライブいったり旅行にいったりとかかな…
あ、中学生は友達ｶｯﾌﾟﾙと一緒に"ダブルﾃﾞｰﾄ"（DOUBLE DATE）をしたりもします。笑

ﾃﾞｰﾄについては私の班でFILMを撮っているので、お楽しみに～♪

what I think about Japanese "high school groups"

私の通っていた高校にもＧｒｏｕｐはありましたが、そんなに対立はしていませんでした。私はその原因は学校にcafeteriaがなかったことにあると思います。学校にcafeteriaがないので、みんなお昼は教室で食べます。そのため、生徒はほとんどの時間を同じクラスの人と過ごすことになります。一クラス男20人女20人のあわせて約40人くらいなので、そこで気のあう人とグループを作ったとしてもせいぜい５人くらいです。そんな小さなグループじゃ、他のグループと対抗する力もないんじゃないなあ…と私は思いました。

... and Joshikousei (a high school studeht)goes to Karaoke after school with her friends everyday (as u can see from a pix)

Happy Halloweeeeeeeen<3

I was a Little Red Riding-hood.

but I liked my friend's costume more than mine so I asked him and borrowed that

.......and I became a "Little Red Riding-Sayo-nigiri:)"("Nigiri" means rice-ball)

What costume did u wear??

Happy Halloween<3

KOREA!!!!

(only two ppl are Japanese in this pix.)

Hello=)

sorry I couldn't go to the last CCDL class and check this website for a while,,,

because.... guess what?? I was in Korea!!!!!

That was my first time to visit there and I can't speak Korean at all,

but since I have many Korean Japanese friends (they are Korean but born and grew up in Japan, and now studying Korean in Korea.) living there, I could experience the Korean college students' life with them.;)

Korea has a lot of Yummy Hot food like Kimchi. Before I go, I couldn't ate any spicy food but now I really like it! I want to visit there again to just have Kimchi !lol

since I experienced too many stuff in Korea to write in this blog(or since I am just too lazy to write about that in English..j/k:P) I want you to gusess what I experienced by checking pictures of me n friends in Korea!!!!lol

http://washington.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2201465&l=af251&id=10726118

If you have never been there, I really recommend to buy an air ticket to Seoul right now!!!

P.S.

many ppl in Seoul thought I am a Korean. Do I look like Korean?

facebook:D

hello~everyone:) how r u today???

I have a quick question!

"Do You Have a facebook??"

I bet all of you say "YES!!!"....right??

In Japan, most of the students have a "mixi" just like you have a facebook.

BUT in order to open a mixi account, you have to be invited by someone who already has the account...ohhhhhhhh it takes a lot of doing:(

but still, having a MIXI account will help you to learn Japanese, so if your friend has a mixi account, you should ask him/her to invite you!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixi

P.S. I have a facebook account!! Search "Sayo Otsuka"on facebook and add me, please:P then we can also talk on our wall☆

This pix was taken in Olympia with my roomies when I was studying at the University of Washington:) One is a Mexican and the other is a half-Chinese and half-Russian!!...and I am a Japanese<3

this is Sayo:D

Hello everyone;D This is Sayo Otsuka from Waseda University.

Let me briefly introduce myself to you first.
I am a senior at SILS(School of International Liberal Studies) and studying Chinese and Economics there. I love my departments and want to stay there more and study Chinese(but not Economics.lol) but Im gonna graduate from Waseda University in 5 minths:(
After I graduate, I m gonna work at a trading company (called 商社 in Japanese). Im so excited to work there because the company might gives me many opportunities to work abroad!!!

When I was a sophomore,　I went to the United States and studied at the University of Washington a year. Life in Seattle was just great and I still miss everything there.
After I came back to Japan, I started to learn Chinese. This past August, I took a summer school in Taiwan so my Chinese has some Taiwan accent. (but I think Taiwan accent sounds cute.lol)

I love to see a musical so if you are also interested in that, let me know! we can go to see together! (last Satday, I saw "West side story" by 劇団四季.)

brieflyとかいいつつ、いっぱい書いてしまいました:P笑

写真の右側がSayoです i love happy ppl, and love to be happy<3