Ethnically Challenging...

and other discussions on food and life here in Japan...

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Chocolate Bunny anyone?

It's amazing what you can stumble upon when you have nothing to do and a computer is your only real entertainment...

For example, I found this interesting article about an African pop star in Russia..
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2004/01/9343b35a-a42f-4f18-9428-43354eec0ed4.html

One more reason they should never leave me alone in the teacher's room!!! Cuz I'll inevitably watch stuff like this...

Little Superstar
http://us.video.aol.com/video.index.adp?mode=2&pmmsid=1726852

It’s super interesting what you hear on the radio here. In stores, they play some of the most explicit gangsta’ rap ever. N-word flying everywhere!!! In restaurants, songs full of all kinds of innuendos blast over my food!  This morning, however, my heart leapt when I turned on the radio and heard, “Coupé décaléil faut travailler!” It was an Ivorian song that I had heard about a long time ago from an Ivorian French friend I met in Senegal. I had only heard the song once at a party thrown by the African Students Association at Clark Atlanta. Here I am, all the way in Japan, and it’s the first thing I heard this morning. Way to set the mood for the rest of the day.

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