we got there at 8, for the gates opening, and stayed until 8. I had a great time.
the differences
everyone wears tons of disney gear, like 9 out of every 10 teenage girls had extravagant minnie ears clipped to their hair.
it was christmas time already, nov 11th. As soon as the Halloween theme comes to a close, (which they dont celebrate so much as embrace the season commercially), Christmas enters.
and gift giving is huge here. Because I went to Disney, I was probably supposed to buy a little gift, like cookies, for all or at least some of my co workers. (But if I keep it secret, then I don't have to buy them anything. A bus trip to Disney hardly seems like an event to bring souvenirs back for people.) The up side is I often end up with bean paste sweets or chocolate on my desk. There are tons of gift shops, and they were all packed.
I saw a 100 person line for curry flavored popcorn, one vendor, mustve taken at least half an hr. i took a picture, they werent happy. The Japanese seem pretty good about following the rules, and being American, one gets used to breaking them and keeps it up while over here. we, or at least I, call it a gaijin (meaning foreigner) smash. When we pulled up to the park on the disney bus and saw the giant mtn, i yelled Fuji san like an excited tourist. we, and I'm sure the other bus riders, got a big laugh out of it. I could see some vicariously enjoying the breaking of social rules. Like all the laughs Joe got when he bearhugged one of the country bears from behind. "those crazy gaijin"
they love only certain disney movies.
Every girl has a stitch doll, from Lilo & Stitch. Nightmare before Christmas is huge. It seems the common demonimator is cute AND scary monsters. maybe they mix up kowai (scary) and kawaii (cute) in their brains. Sarcasm, but I sure mix those up. Also kirai is dislike, kirei is beautiful, and karai is spicy. ahh.
the lines were long, but we played fun mind games to kill the time, like I'm going to a picnic, ghost the letter game, and a japanese game popular at drinking parties, Chun Chun. everyone has two thumbs up, then u say chun chun and a #. if u guess the # of thumbs up, adding them all together, u can take a hand away. loser is the one with a hand left.
We played for embarassing dares, like having to wait on line at the famous picture spot, and kissing belle from beauty in the beast, alone. Or yelling things. Or eating weird things.
An accidental gaijin smash.
In the beginning we were chun chun novices, and thought you said chin chin then the #. Well chin chin means penis in Japanese. So on line for Peter Pan, all these kids around, we were saying in essence saying, penis 2! penis 5! This shouldve been evident in students trying to ask you, what's this, pointing to their chin? twice. But we had forgotten. Sorry Peter Pan kids.
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