Monday, June 4, 2007

School, Driving, and Politics



School in the morning like usual, Japanese and Art History. Turned in my paper for Intellectual Heritage and headed home where I had left over Curry Rice for lunch. After lunch I headed out for a walk and took the picture of the Fuji TV building and the Captain Santa thing, which I have no idea what it is but it's funny.

In the Evening I watched TV and they had a show about "paper drivers". This term refers to people that have their drivers license but don't actually have a car or drive. Driving school in Japan is very expensive and the driving test is very difficult to pass. In the Driving test everything must be done in a specific order like a tea ceremony. Most people have to take the test more then once in order to pass and get their licence. The show was hilarious because they had female drivers ages 20 to 60 and had them do a series of driving related tests. When I flipped the TV on there was a older lady trying to back into a parking spot next to another car where she hit the car that she was parking next to and the barrier on the other side, completely fulfilling the stereotype that Asian people can't drive. After that segment they brought a professional driver on the show who went around a couple different courses with the Paper Drivers. They had a narrow tunnel made of cardboard boxes that they had to drive through at high speed in which many of the girls knocked the tunnel down or at least hit the cardboard wall.

After Dinner I watched some more TV while I ate the Green Tea Flavored Ice Cream bar. Right now the Prime Minster Abe is at a record low of 30% getting close to George Bush. Abe's rating fell because of some shoddy pension records and political money scandals that have happened recently.

Also some people took a small motor boat from North Korea to Japan, crazy Commi's

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