Hello all, it's been a while. These past few days I haven't done anything of particular note. I've gone to cafes a couple times to study with Nobuko, had lunch with Rie, Maki-sensei, and Min Jeong, and went out to Shibuya with Aya, but there hasn't been any sightseeing or anything lately.
I did make a strange observation when I was grocery shopping after work yesterday, though. I took a class on Caribbean literature last year and we spent a period talking about the economy, bananas in particular. (You know that 'daylight come and me wan' go home' song? Not so happy.) So basically Chiquita has taken over the banana market, effectively destroying that market in the Caribbean. (And how that leads to a bad economy and things like importing dry milk instead of buying regular domestic milk, selling off the cows and things like that. It's amazing how well banana growers know about the world economy, put me to shame. Anyway...) I knew that last year when I bought bananas and actually felt kind of bad about them being so cheap and everything. So, how is this related to Japan? When I was in the Seibu store I was going to buy apples, but they costed 100 yen EACH (about a dollar). So I look around again to see if there's anything else I might want. 2 oranges are 250 yen. And then there it is, nice yellow bananas. 5 for 97 yen. I was excited for about 20 seconds, then I looked at the sticker and of course, it's Chiquita and I feel bad again, but buy them anyway. Isn't that messed up? I'm conflicted about bananas.
