Last night my project team here in Japan treated me on a dinner, well not the typical Pinoy dinner we are used to. Beer are served first before anything else. They ordered a lot - sashimi, maki, yakisoba, and many other traditional Japanese dish. It was a feast I may say.
It is so fascinating how Japanese serve their dishes - detailed and so much extravagant. In a way that night serve a cultural immersion for me. Japanese people are servants rather than being served. It would be their pleasure to hand you over the food and put beer on your mug.
I enjoyed that night. But somehow I was out of place. They are all speaking Japanese and of course I can't understand. But I know they are talking about us. I heard the word Firipin and our names in between japanese words. They were laughing so that means only two things - they are happy about us or they are laughing at us.
I will not be going into details but I'll admit, they asked me about some of my officemates. Hopefully they understood my comments and that I haven't got them into the bad side.
Then I realize, it may be cultural difference. And my mission is to decipher the code, to break this barrier, and then we will understand.
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