AINORI, HEADACHE LOVE

In case you are wondering how come Mimi's English improved suddenly; it is because I'm today's guest poster. I think I will contribute to this since neither one of us has enough material to contribute on our own.
Afterwork today, I spent most of the afternoon planning out our upcoming train trip to Chicago in the end of September. Mimi and I will take a 3 day train ride up to chicago and then fly back after spending a couple of days in the city. It should be quite exhilirating.

The tape came! We watched our much anticipated 4 episodes of AINORI (Freshly shipped from Japan every 4 weeks). This is the Japanese reality show where a group of young people travel the world in a pink van trying to fall in love with a fellow companion so that they can return to Japan together. It is better than any soap opera.
Although I only speak about 10 words of Japanese I think I can understand 70 % of the show. The feelings of love, hate, jealousy, envy are so universal; you can see it clearly on the faces of these young people; no translation needed. Its a great show, and it never fails to move me to tears when their heart is broken. There is just something inherently charming about the show which I don't think can be duplicated in the States. The Japanese 20-somethings seem to still possess a sense of purity and idealism that is absent in American shows (which are dominated by exhibitionism and sexual one-upsmanship.) Oh, well, maybe it is all just nostalgia in my dotage.

Ok, thats it for now, hope everyone out there had a productive month of August; see you all in September.

Kemble, Mimi, and Laika