- Arriving in Japan like
- The face I make when I don’t understand something
- School on Saturdays
- Asking my parents for more spending money
- Explaining the realities of my life back in America
- When I finally got my hands on some American pizza
- Showing up on the first day of school like
- “American food or Japanese food?”
- When I catch someone staring at me on the street
- Meeting the other exchange students at orientation
- Studying kanji
- Everyone at school gunning for me to join their club
- Finding out I have to pay for my AFS phone myself
- Teaching my classmates English slang
- Trying to understand Japanese comedy like
- Hanging out with the squad at school
- When senpai notices me
- “You have to give a speech”
- When I embarrass myself for the millionth time
- Learning to apologize with style
- Getting tickets to see AKB48
- Video-chatting with my family
- Pretending to follow along with a conversation but really having zero idea what’s happening
- Going to an all-girls school
- Realizing I’ve been using a word wrong for months and no one’s said anything
- “Do you like anything other than AKB48?”
- Finding friends who are into the same stuff as I am
- “You like anime right?”
- Seeing another foreigner in public
- “Why did you come to Japan?”
- Me when I’m lost
- Remembering I have to go home in February
- Watching my bukatsu perform
- When somebody asks if their English is right but I suddenly can’t remember English
- Remembering that I’m in Japan and it’s amazing
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#14 is my favorite.