Alright, this is a new one for me. I went out to a ramen shop near Tokyo Station yesterday for lunch. Two Japanese people in front of me, two behind me. The first two get sat down and the staff takes their tickets, then gives them both a stamp card. Takes my order, no stamp card. Takes the order of the two after me and gives them both a stamp card. Didn’t think much of it but I remember I likely have one in my wallet from a few weeks ago (different staff member gave it to me).
I fish it out, call the staff, and ask for a stamp. She takes it, walks to the back……and throws it in the garbage bin. I kinda sat there for a few min a little wide-eyed disbelief thinking that’s not what she just did. I flag her down again and ask for my stamp card back and she acts like she doesn’t know what I’m talking about, then after explaining I just gave her my stamp card she makes a new one with a single stamp (the other one already had a few). I had to further argue with her about that before she relented and went back to work. Not so much as a single apology.
In preparation for JLPT N3, yesterday I did some listening comprehension exercises from a book. I got almost every answer wrong and it absolutely shattered my confidence. My main issues were processing what was being said quickly enough, and picking the right answer out of the misleading ones.
Looking back, it is a silly thing to get upset about, but it’s only motivating me further to overcome that hurdle.
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Alright, this is a new one for me. I went out to a ramen shop near Tokyo Station yesterday for lunch. Two Japanese people in front of me, two behind me. The first two get sat down and the staff takes their tickets, then gives them both a stamp card. Takes my order, no stamp card. Takes the order of the two after me and gives them both a stamp card. Didn’t think much of it but I remember I likely have one in my wallet from a few weeks ago (different staff member gave it to me).
I fish it out, call the staff, and ask for a stamp. She takes it, walks to the back……and throws it in the garbage bin. I kinda sat there for a few min a little wide-eyed disbelief thinking that’s not what she just did. I flag her down again and ask for my stamp card back and she acts like she doesn’t know what I’m talking about, then after explaining I just gave her my stamp card she makes a new one with a single stamp (the other one already had a few). I had to further argue with her about that before she relented and went back to work. Not so much as a single apology.
In preparation for JLPT N3, yesterday I did some listening comprehension exercises from a book.
I got almost every answer wrong and it absolutely shattered my confidence.
My main issues were processing what was being said quickly enough, and picking the right answer out of the misleading ones.
Looking back, it is a silly thing to get upset about, but it’s only motivating me further to overcome that hurdle.