ダニエルの冒険

I’m just after finishing my packing, punctuated by lunch with Wana, the Romanian girl I met in Frankfurt before I got on the Nagoya flight. I didn’t get the chance to meet her again until today, but what she described as “symmetry” (starting and finishing the trip with the same person), was a nice point. Most of the foreigners I know in Japan are either here on short-term visits or are studying in language schools, neither of which provides much opportunity for really living in Japan with Japanese people in a Japanese environment. Wana, however, is married to a Japanese man and is studying Japanese by herself, so she has lots of insights that my usual foreigner friends don’t have. As such, it was great to talk to her and we had some really interesting conversations about what we like, but mostly about what we don’t like, about Japan and Japanese people.
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