I'm Livin in Tokyo, Japan now and for the next 4 months

[StonerPenguin]

Originally Posted by GTJ

In America you can barely see mosquitoes.

嘘でしょう! That is SO not true for the south-eastern US, I've seen mosquitoes that span 3-4cm, although I'm pretty sure they're the striped asian mosquitos or whatever that have migrated

On the subject of reverse culture shock; I'd never even thought about that, I'd never expect to experience something like that. How interesting..

[jorge10]

Originally Posted by Jnekolove19

Its crazy before i left and while i was gone i didn't believe people when they said i would experience reverse culture shock. it seemed like something that everyone says but it doesn't really exist. after being back for 5 weeks i realize that its all true. 1) i never realized how loud americans are, 2) food food food it is so different at first i was like i'm ok with not having any asian food but it finally hit about 2 weeks ago and all i wanted was ramen and sushi (i live in the middle of nowhere so getting anything like that even if its not the real thing is really hard to do) 3) interacting with people now is so different its hard to explain but it is... now the list goes on and on but i think its obvious that the rumors are true reverse culture shock does exist. :-P

Hope you enjoyed Japan.

[Jnekolove19]

Originally Posted by jorge10

Hope you enjoyed Japan.

I most certainly did!!! It was an awsome experience.

[Jnekolove19]

Originally Posted by StonerPenguin

嘘でしょう! That is SO not true for the south-eastern US, I've seen mosquitoes that span 3-4cm, although I'm pretty sure they're the striped asian mosquitos or whatever that have migrated

On the subject of reverse culture shock; I'd never even thought about that, I'd never expect to experience something like that. How interesting..

I know what you mean about the mosquitoes I'm from the south and yeah I've seen some pretty big mosquitoes too.

Yeah in some ways the coming back is harder than the going. But its part of the experience.