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Re: What Was Your Most Interesting Travel Experience?
By: Terecia Date: April 15, 2019, 7:40 pm
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Chizukoさん,
You're such a good storyteller. I really enjoy reading it.
ありがとう
ございます.
How did your daughter react to your story?
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Re: What Was Your Most Interesting Travel Experience?
By: Chizuko hanji Date: April 16, 2019, 3:28 am
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When she found me at the arrival area in the airport, she said,
"Mom, it's me. Are you ok? You look like a zombie". I was too
exhausted to hug her.
She laughed at my story. I've never met any person who didn't
laugh at it.
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Re: What Was Your Most Interesting Travel Experience?
By: Terecia Date: April 16, 2019, 7:07 am
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[quote author=Chizuko link=topic=960.msg14444#msg14444
date=1555403329]
I was too exhausted to hug her.
[/quote]
Perhaps, it's a rather off-topic question. Is it common for
Japanese mothers to hug their daughters? Or is it only you? My
mother barely hugs me, she didn't hug me at the airport after
separated for almost three years.
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Re: What Was Your Most Interesting Travel Experience?
By: Chizuko hanji Date: April 16, 2019, 9:06 am
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Nowadays, even the Japanese sometimes hug if they get emotional
though, at most, maybe, three times in your life. But most
Japanese never hug in public. Usually, we don't have a habit of
hugging.
My daughter lives in Canada and we meet only once a year so that
it's natural to hug at the airport. But if we met in a
department store, we wouldn't do. Somehow, airports are always
dramatic enough to get a hug.
It's very weird to see hugging Asian men each other. Tom hunks
and Renard Dicaprio are hugging? It's good to see them. My
husband and next door man? It's disgusting. My husband and me? I
forgot how to do it.
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Re: What Was Your Most Interesting Travel Experience?
By: Alharacas Date: April 16, 2019, 9:27 am
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[quote author=Chizuko link=topic=960.msg14450#msg14450
date=1555423590]
Nowadays, even the Japanese sometimes hug if they get emotional
though, at most, maybe, three times in your life. But most
Japanese never hug in public. Usually, we don't have a habit of
hugging.
[/quote]
Chizuko, are you referring to public hugging? Or does that mean
there's no hugging between mothers and daughters in private,
either? ???
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Re: What Was Your Most Interesting Travel Experience?
By: Chizuko hanji Date: April 16, 2019, 9:42 am
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Most Japanese never hug in public. Maybe not so often in private
either, in the family. Except for young couples.
If young couples hug in public, I won't look at them. I don't
think it's beautiful. Because I'm not used to seeing in real.
When aged couples like me started hugging and kissing lightly in
front of me when we were in line for some vehicle in a tourist
area in Canada, I was shocked. It's a big culture difference as
if we ate raw fish on the boat. Jerry wouldn't look at me eating
it, either.
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Re: What Was Your Most Interesting Travel Experience?
By: MartinSR Date: April 17, 2019, 3:09 pm
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Hello Terecia,
You probably don't know me because I'm rather not active member
of EGP and Italki (I used to be more active on both... about 1
year ago). So this post is also my 'Welcome' to You :-)
First of all I want to congratulate you this interesting topic
about Kashgar and it's culture. It's a pity that such
experiences become more rare in the world nowadays. This time it
was because of deliberate decision of one country, but many
interesting places, customs and other manifestations of cultural
differences are dying as a side effect of globalization
[quote author=Terecia link=topic=960.msg14387#msg14387
date=1555232463]
I didn't expect the members would share their experiences since
travelling could be such luxury things to do.
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Anyway I'm glad I could see this kind of topic here... I
remember I dreamed about the whole section like this... about
our travels (not necessarily so distant ones - sometimes the
trip to a neighbor town can give us unexpected experience). Long
time ago I tried to start a thread where we could share stories
about interesting places around us... but it died quickly.
I can't think about placing such an informative and interesting
content at the moment, so instead I only send flowers from The
Keukenhof Gardens in Netherlands i visited a couple of days ago:
[img width=300
height=145]
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