Christmas in Japan

So Christmas here is quite a bit different from America. For one, the holiday lights are all blue. No red and green, just blue. I also heard that in Japan chicken is the special Christmas food, so everyone goes to KFC. Very odd indeed.



It's very quiet in the I-House these days. There are only four guys on the first floor and three of us on the second floor, and maybe fifteen girls on the third fourth and fifth floors combined. We have a Christmas tree out in the I-House patio, and it was lit up during the Christmas/Goodbye party that we had last week. All of the one-semester students have left, and I'm really going to miss a lot of them.

In Japanese, you say Merry Christmas almost the same as in English, just broken down into Japanese syllables which are simpler than English ones. It's written メリークリスマス and pronounced Merii Kurisumasu. If you use Yahoo Babelfish to translate it from the Japanese characters to English, the result is Mary Christmas, which I find quite appropriate!

Mary will be leaving on the morning of the 26th from America and arriving in the evening of the 27th in Japan, and I'm really excited! Her friend Alycia is coming from Seoul, South Korea, and our friend Paul is coming from Tokyo to hang out until New Years. We'll definitely be having a good time on New Year's Eve!

All in all, a very quiet Christmas, but the next few weeks will more than make up for it! Merry Christmas everyone! I wish I could've been there to celebrate with all of you!