Someone asked me, on Monday, what my height was. I started saying 5ft... then trailed off b/c I have no idea how tall I am in meters and feet would mean nothing to him. So I did the conversions.
Height: 171.4cm
While staying with my host-family they keep feeding me so, much, food. And at orientation there was an endless supply. I spent that week feeling perpetually-stuffed. I learned the Japanese word for full stomach: mou taberarenai. I was convinced I had gained 5lbs with all this food so I weighed myself on the host-family scale. I had to go online and use a conversion tool to have any idea what that number meant.
Weight: 57.5kg
While I'm on a roll, I need to get a better idea of how many liters to consume.
64oz = 1.9L
8oz= 0.24L= 240mL
12oz= 0.35L= 350mL
I have a better grasp on miles to meters, because of 5K/10K/marathon races.
1km= 0.62mi
1mi= 1.61km
Why is it that saying one's weight is a taboo secret for women, but saying it in a "foreign" measurement system seems to make it still innocuous?
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