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Originally Posted by Nyororin
I am fairly sure I have talked about it to some extent elsewhere, but don`t really remember.
They were from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The Canadian was the worst of them, and sort of the leader.
I think that some of it was because they were in Japan through some rotary club exchange - in other words, something their parents arranged and not because they wanted to go to Japan. I was there because I wanted to be. Before I came along, there was quite a bit of special treatment given to them. If the "leader" said foreign girls could not do such and such because of cultural or religious taboos... Well, no one was going to doubt it. I guess I sort of ruined the little world that had been constructed by actually wanting to learn Japanese (and succeeding), wanting to experience anything I could (and doing so), etc... Proving that it was indeed possible. When they`d slacked off and said that things were "too hard", no one doubted them... But now here I was, and managing with no trouble at all. I wasn`t trying to make them mad, but apparently did a very good job of it.
The bullying stuff in the school was just nasty remarks, stealing my stuff (all the money I had from my bag, for one), and things on that level. During the school trip it peaked - I was given a private room through some quirk of fate. After lights out, they all came to my room, forced their way in, poured beer on me and threw my stuff out the window. After being given a thorough beat down, they left and reported me for "partying in my room". I had made them very very angry by choosing to get in the onsen - so they were pushed to do the same and weren`t given rooms with private baths as they wanted (they would have had to bathe in a teacher`s room, horror of horrors).
Obviously the teachers saw through the report of me doing the damage to the room, but I don`t think they were able to do anything to punish the girls who did it...
I ended up not sleeping that night, and just sitting at the window watching the city lights of Nagasaki. This has to be one of my most depressing memories.
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Wow... I'm pretty speechless.
I definitely know what you mean about the leaders and such though... quite a common thing at schools here.
They sound like rich spoiled kids to me, especially if they only went because it was their parents idea, close minded fools.
It's so strange, because usually the type of people who go to Japan are kind, lovely people, as it's the sort of people Japan seems to attract. It's a shame these people take up the space of someone who actually would like to go.
Gah, and I thought
I had it bad when I was bullied....
Well I honestly do hope that these people are now working at some dead end factory, while you've made the most of Japan.
It seems people these days are getting
so much worse, I can't even believe it... and I'm only 18! :L