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Originally Posted by burkhartdesu
Great stories, and I agree whole-heartedly.
When I first learned where my homestay was (Takefu, Fukui), I was a little upset it wasn't in the city.
Come to find out, I couldn't have been more wrong -- staying in rural Japan was the ultimate experience. It was exactly what I had been expecting out of Japan... The people were awesome and untainted by worldy desires (Cheesy, but true.)
It was very similar to my hometown, believe it or not, in rural Alaska.
Maybe why most host family gave me fried chicken, watermelon, and pizza as my welcoming dinner.
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LOL, I never had a host family give me western food. To the contrary, they were eager to give me home-cooked Japanese food, such as shabu shabu, sukiyaki, nikujaga, etc. (Even though I was a JET, my prefecture organized weekend homestays where the JETs could spend 1 weekend with a host family, typically for some special event, like a festival in that town. They did this 3 times a year, and I took part every time, so a total of 6 weekend homestays around the prefecture in my 2 years. I loved them because it was a great opportunity to meet new people. Sometimes I even went back later to visit the family I'd stayed with again.)