Visiting LA pt2

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I got my hair cut recently and a Polish girl working there said I have a round face.... orz

最近髪の毛を切ったんですが、ポーランド人のスタッフに、丸顔って言われたお。気にしてることを!!

Anyway,
さて、

Since I'd heard it was so inconvenient to get around L.A. without a car and I hadn't had an international driver's license, I decided to post an ad to look for a Japanese woman who lived there and could be a guide/driver. (Plus, I heard some friends and people on forums say they heard gun shots at night in L.A. and everyone said that you can't walk by yourself after sunsets.)

んで、LAは車なしで動くのはきついと聞いたのはいいけど、国際免許も取ってなかったので、現地在住の、車でガイドしてくれる日本人女性をSNSで募ることにしました。それに、夜銃声が聞こえたとか、日没後は一人歩きは危険とか友人から聞いたり、ネットで見たりしたものですから…。

So I posted an ad on Japanese SNSs and successfully found a lady. I received a couple of, kind of interesting, e-mails for asking me out for a overnight romance... One of them was from an American and quite direct message... Even though I wrote I was looking for a Japanese woman.

それから日本人向けSNSに友達募集の書き込みをして、無事に請け負ってくれる人を見つけました。それまでに何通かナンパ目的の、ある意味では興味深いメールも貰いましたが…。笑ったのがアメリカ人からもらったすんごい直接的な内容のメール。だから日本人女性を探してるって書いてんじゃん!

The outward flight was 12 hours, which is the same length to between Tokyo and London... Trying to avoid getting jet-lagged, I tried to stay up the previous night so that I could sleep on the plane, it was completely in vain though. I felt my stomach so sick at around 4 am, so I went to bed eventually. Probably because my age... sigh. I didn't feel the flight that long, but it was a bit awkward that I had to wake up a guy sitting next to me four or five times to go to the toilet...

行きの飛行機は12時間で、ロンドンー東京間と同じ時間…。時差ボケを回避しようと思って、前日に完徹しようと試みたんですが、朝の4時頃にすごい胃が気持ち悪くなって、見事に無駄に終わりました…。もう歳かなぁ…。フライトはそんなに長く感じなかったけど、トイレで横の人をしょっちゅう起こさないといけなかったのは恥ずかしかったなぁ…。

February is the rainy season in the West Coast, so it was raining when I arrived there. It almost looked like a downpour to me, but I don't it actually was, since we only have showers in London. I'd been to NY five years before, but I got overwhelmed by the scale of everything in America again. I guess in the West Coast, it's even more. Roads are ridiculously wide, so are signs, buildings and billboards, everything is massive. I felt so weird walking in the downtown, I felt myself so tiny. When I told about this to an American woman I shared a room of the hostel with, she said like, 'They like making everything big to show they are great and powerful.' Hmmm.

2月は西海岸は梅雨時なので、自分が到着した時も雨が降っていました。かなり強い雨に見えましたが、単に小雨しか降らないロンドンから来たせいでしょうね。5年前にもアメリカ、その時はNYですが、に来た事はあったのですが、再び物のスケールのでかさに圧倒されてしまいました。多分西海岸はそれが更にすごいです。道路、看板、建物、広告… 全てがアホみたいに巨大です。ダウンタウンの真ん中を歩いていて、自分が急に小さくなったような、妙な感覚に陥りました。このことをホステルで同室になったアメリカ人女性に話したら、「アメリカ人はなんでもでかくすることで、自分達が偉大だぞ、金持ってんだぞってことを誇示したいのよ」という答えが。うーん…。

Again, to be continued. Although some memories are not fresh now...
再び続きます。正直そろそろ色々忘れかけてきてるけどw
Mar 04th 2010 08:02 Mai

おかえりー。なんて長い文章なんだ!
ねーねー、不思議の国のアリス見に行かない?
Mar 04th 2010 08:14 sheufly8

  • I felt my stomach so sick at around 4 am, so I went to bed eventually.
  • I felt my stomach so sick at around 4 am, so I went to bed eventually.My stomach felt so sick around 4 am, so eventually, I went to bed.

 

  • Probably because my age...
  • Probably because of my age...

 

  • I didn't feel the flight that long, but it was a bit awkward that I had to wake up a guy sitting next to me four or five times to go to the toilet...
  • I didn't feel the flight that long, but it was a bit awkward that I had to wake up a the guy sitting next to me four or five times to go to the toilet...

 

  • It almost looked like a downpour to me, but I don't it actually was, since we only have showers in London.
  • It almost looked like a downpour to me, but I don't think it actually was, since we only have showers in London.

 

  • I felt so weird walking in the downtown, I felt myself so tiny.
  • I felt so weird walking in the downtown, I felt myself so tiny. I felt so tiny.

 
Mar 11th 2010 19:25 minmooba

>sheufly8
Thank you for correction.
Hahaha, just I thought, there were loads of mistakes lol.
I had expected since I didn't use a dictionary even once though.

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