"That's what I like about traveling--you can sit down, maybe talk to someone interesting, see something beautiful, read a good book, and tha's enough to qualify as a good day. You do that at home and everyone thinks you're a bum." --Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan Towards the end of my adventure in Japan, I was sitting on the sunny side of the train on my way home from Midori no Mori. There was a group of young foreigners--20s--standing in the same train car, talking amongst themselves. I wasn't in the mood for talking to other foreigners (I was of the mindset that this was my territory; my piece of Japan--as some long-term expats come to think), so I had my earbuds in.
Close to my stop, I removed the earbuds and put them away. That's when one of the males came over and asked me, "Where are you from?" "America," I answered, as nicely as I could. "Yes, I figured that, but where?" "Oh," I said, flustered and slightly offended--only foreigners would be so direct. "I'm from Iowa." "Oh, we thought you were from New York or some big city place." "No, I'm not." I responded, offended, again. This time at his lack of appreciation of where I came from.
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"What is traveling? So, since I have been in Japan for a while I thought it was high time to buy some new bras.
But, there was the problem of size. I did not know what size I was in Japan. Therefore, I had to get a bra fitting. Before I came to Japan, I did this thing called BodyRock. It is an online workout program that you can do in your home. It uses minimal or no equipment and usually takes no more than 12 minutes. It was awesome and it is what has kept me in shape the past four years of my life. I also participated in other running and obstacle course events, but I knew those weren’t going to happen in Japan. |
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