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Originally Posted by kenmei
sounds like a decent plan.
the main thing i cannot stress enough is speak speak speak as much as you can while in japan. no matter what, it'll help you learn/practice and meet new friends/people. do not stay in a shell and be shy around other people. make the most of your opportunity and you will benefit a lot, trust me 
get off the base as much as you can and as often as you can. explore japan  you might want to think about investing in a JR pass (can be purchased via a travel agency prior to leaving for japan) so you can get unlimited rides on any JR train including shinkansen. which is great for traveling to other parts of japan cheap. it's good for 6 months, once you activate it however; it's only good for what you purchased it for (1 week/2 weeks, ect. of unlimited riding)
hope that helps. |
Lol, my friend told me about it. He visits Japan every year, so he told me once i get there, to make sure i learn my way around the train station and to know where im going (im bad at directions and else, so can you imagine me on a train, by myself?) but he told me about it as well.
Ho ho ho, im certainly not inside a nut shell, thats for sure. Im pretty calm from time to time or when i meet new people, but i open up really fast.
Cant picture me speaking Japanese for real with actual people, there.
I just checked out the school i might be attending to. My parents just showed it to me, its actually ironic, cause its the same school i attended back then when i lived on paraguay(south america), but in Japan. Its a private school and its an american school actually, but its for diplomatic kids. So ima be stuck with spoiled brats again. But then again, Ive only got my senior year and im done.
I dont know how my sister will deal with food there, she hates fish. Never really seen here eating fish at all.