Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Post 4 sort of



Well, it's turning out that these vlogs are gonna be a bit more challenging than we thought. Doing these videos in Japanese and then editing the video with subtitles have been major hurdles. Recently, we've been slammed with a lot of busy work for class (Busy work = no fun). On top of that as you can see in the video we are also taking Karate classes among other things. Rewon and I need to figure out a solid system of taking the video and then editing it.

Since there aren't a lot of words and no subtitles, I'll walk through the video. As I said earlier we are now taking Karate lessons. The teacher is going to be teaching us old Karate. In other words, we'll be using swords etc... Also in the video we see a lot of clips of the subway. That's because most of our time is spent on the subway going back and forth. For me it takes about an hour to school. The commute cost is draining my wallet. It comes out to about $10 each day just to go to school and back. Towards the end of the video a lot of our friends get introduced, from Yale or people we met through our program. There also is a quick shot of some random Japanese people we met. We've meet a decent number of strangers on the streets so far, from college students to a CEO of a company. There's also clips from backstage access at the Kabuki show (props to Josh for opening that curtain like a pro) and a tea ceremony we went to.

Pictures: O ya there is a picture of shave ice from Japan. You can compare it with the picture I took in Hawaii from Vlog 2. They are both the same flavor and toppings. Also there is a "Palette Town" for all you pokemon fans out there.

We'll until next time. Hopefully, I can get these vlogs going.


1 comment:

  1. Gabe!!! Looks like you're having a great time! :) We're currently in Madrid leaving today for Paris! :) yee! The vlogs are great! - Mary Claire

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