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When I arrived at the Hiroshima
airport, a lady from the international office and two new Taiwanese exchange students
awaited me there. A big car with a chauffeur took us to the dorms. There was
complete silence on the one-hour drive so that was a little awkward but my
tiredness was stronger.
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When we arrive at the dorms,
there are several students who came to greet us and show us around. It´s nearly
midnight. This is an international house and so most of the students are also
exchange students but all of them speak Japanese now. Then there is one girl
who introduces herself “I am the Japanese person of this house.” <3
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This Japanese girl then takes
us outside and shows us the door code. 練習。Now practice. And all of us go and try the code
and open the door. <3 Then we all go to the nearest conbini store. I had been waiting for this.
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Rachel (a lovely girl from
Arizona who came to Japan 5 months ago and has learnt to speak fluently
already) and a Korean girl Jouhyon (?) show me how the Japanese beddings work and how to recycle. They are super
nice and talk slowly to me, I can even understand them! I am very slow to reply
though and probably very unintelligible and so Rachel asks if she should speak
in English. And so now I cheat and speak in English with Rachel. I do try
Japanese with everyone else though.
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I lost the paperwork I got from
the international center about two hours after I got it. And so I ended up
going through the trash on the dark kitchen balcony at night, finding nothing. Fortunately,
Rachel found them and took them. On the top of the first page it says なくさないでください。Please don´t lose this.
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Everyone is super nice and
helpful. I was worried earlier to live in an international house that everyone
would speak English and it would be hard to meet Japanese people. I am so happy
now as everyone does speak Japanese and everyone is super friendly and helps
with everything.
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I met my buddy Rina and she
showed me how to get to the train station, where to buy the bus card and where
hangers and recommended some food in the store. おすすめ。 We talked in Japanese for several hours. Well, she talked and then
there were my poor attempts to sound Japanese.
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No food looks familiar except
for some vegetable. I take pictures of the food I eat so that I can find it
again in the store later.
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The international office lent
me a functioning adaptor (?) and my buddy Rina helped me order the same one. Maybe I
will end up having functional technology after all.
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After everyone telling me that it is very difficult to find a free Wi-Fi in Japan, several people here have tried to
persuade me that I don´t need a Japanese number or sim card with internet data.
The lady from the international office tries to measure with a ruler how long
my sim card is anyway <3
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Orientation days start tomorrow. And the
placement test.
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