So what do you get when you go to a hairdresser in Japan? Well, the answer in this case is that you get a haircut and some Miyazaki anime movies. Usually I like to go to that place where they massage your head and two people blowdry your hair at one time, but this time I went to a budget place. There, a nice guy named Hayashi, who had taken two years of English lessons at NOVA English School, made pleasant chatter as I blushed at having an attractive man cut my hair. The last time a nice-looking guy cut my hair I was about 10, and it was my dad.
Hayashi-san likes pachinko, and his other hobby is watching movies. We talked about the Miyazaki anime movies. He's a big fan of Miyazaki(Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle, etc.), and I think I mentioned before that I've been going through one by one watching all the movies Miyazaki ever made, so he pulled a set off the wall and lent them to me to watch.
It was nice to relax while getting a haircut. Making small talk during a haircut can be so stressful if I can't find anything in common with the hairdresser.
Anyway, most of the bulk of my hair was razored off tonight. The longest part is still there, though. It hasn't been cut since I came here, and it's nearly down to my belly button now when it hangs down my back.
I tell of my day-to-day experiences in a funky Japanese town from my American viewpoint. This blog could also be called 'Bizarro World', 'Notes From Kyushu, a Smaller Island', or 'Teaching English in Japan: Smash Your Ego in 10 Easy Lessons."
Thursday, December 14, 2006
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2 comments:
Ya' know I love long hair and don't think women should cut there hair at all. It's beatiful...
I like movies too. Even though I haven't seen many this year, especially any good anime. It sounds like you had a pleasant experience. I feel good for you.
In this part of the country most of the attractive male hairdressers are typically homosexual, NOt that there is anything wrong with that...
Later Jet...
I think long hair can be so beautiful, too. As for my hair though, I decided to just let it keep growing when I got here. It seemed like a good way to measure how long(literally) it's been since I came.
btw, I think you might like 'Howl's Moving Castle' if you haven't seen it. It's full of imagination and color and wonder, and you like that sort of thing, don't you?
And yeah, I thought about that, how many male hairdressers back home are homosexual. The whole time I've been living here, I've haven't met one openly gay Japanese man, or woman, for that matter. It's not so accepted here to be open about that sort of thing(even straight people almost never kiss, hug, or hold hands in public). Different world, huh?
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