Bank officer: “Oh wait you can speak Japanese?!?” “... I suppose no one told you that.” “No! I spent the whole night cramming on English mortgage vocabulary! Thank goodness, now I don’t need it!” “What a relief!” “Seriously! Why would anyone name a mortgage after a body part?!”
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oh, God! I'm マドセン everywhere except one immigration document that my wife decided to make me マづセン Always discovered after filling out the entire form that could have been printed from the screen they have open.
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Reading your twitter stories always makes me want to move to Japan... every mundane errand turns into this exploratory expedition into culture and language, it's amazing :)
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how many times did you have to start over because you kinda ripped a little on an ‘e’ and muscle memory rewrote it on top and 「Oh no! That’s not right, we have to double cross the whole line and write it again with a stamp on top.」?
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Do you have a cheat sheet to help you know which way to spell your name in each scenario? Perhaps a special filling cabinet to hold that info?
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This entire thread is magnificent.
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Really enjoying reading about
@patio11 mortgage application (never imagined those were words I’d tweet)- from a former software engineer who is relearning coding to pay for her physics degree. At 47. :)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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