Sunday, November 11, 2007

Drinking

Hello! Today, I'm going to write about drinking.
In Japan, we can drink when we turn 20.
BUT!! In fact, many younger experiences drinking before 20.
Recently, the rules about drinking are becoming so strict more and more.
There are many problems about younger drinking. Young people don’t have enough body to drink yet and sometimes serious happening happen because of drinking too much.
So, Japan crack down on people who relate with drinking, for example, the master of bar and restaurant staff. They must check customer’s age. If we are demanded to show how old we are, we must show identification paper like driver’s license.
If bars give Sake to younger, they must pay a lot of fine. So, now it isn’t easy to drink for younger.
20 is one of important age because we can do anything as from we turn 20.
I think many younger wait to be 20 for drinking. I’m not 20 yet, but I will turn 20 on December. I’m looking forward to drink with my friends.

3 comments:

hitomi said...

Hello, Yoshiko. Hello, 19 years old girl^^ haha^^
You are still 19, so you can’t drink alcohol yet. Do you want to drink? I don’t want to drink because I don’t think its taste good. I don’t know drinking fun. I think I will know if I became more adult and have experience. If I got job, I think I have to drink to communicate with my coworker. I don’t want to do that><
But if you turn 20 and if you want, let’s go to bar and drink with all of us^^
Now I don’t like to drink but I want to know fun of drinking someday..
I think some people get crazy when they drink. One of my friends showed me the photo when they went to drink. I really surprised because they looks so crazy! They are 24 or more adult…but look child^^

cloudcantina said...

When I go to Japan, I never get carded. "Carded" is what we say when the person at the bar checks your ID. Maybe I look old enough! I make very tasty drinks, like pina colada (coconut and pineapple)! I don't like to get drunk, but it is fun to drink a little bit. Now that I am 21, I can go to the bar in America. It's fun trying new drinks! Some of the drinks have silly names.

ayumi said...

Hello, Yoshiko! Recently, many young people drink alcohol! It's a big problem. Some people drink alcohol too much and they get drunk! This is really dangerous! Some people become crazy!!! Alcohol sometimes changes our personality! It's scary! We have to take care!
Many people will get away from their stresses by drinking! Having stresses is a big problem, but I don't want people to drink too much! This is too bad for our health!
If people get drink, they have troubled other people! It's not good!
Drinking a little is good! When you become 20, let's go to a bar together including Hitomi!