with like the language and all not being
so comfortable in it but you know you
still get over it because you know you
still have to eat you still have to do
these experiences yeah who made you eat
it I'm looking at you I made a meeting
and people were just up against the
window like like waving at us I'm
looking through the window and I felt
like that like how's this all everything
hey guys my girls are nice Japanese its
Cathy cat you are here in Japan you
might as well try and take some new
challenges that's what we're gonna go
and ask go now that was my pretty
perfect for my nuts well anyways that's
what we're gonna go and ask foreigners
here in Japan
what kind of challenge they would like
to do and what kind of challenges they
have done and at the end of the video
I'm gonna tell you three great
challenges that I have done here in
Japan and I've done them and I completed
anyone I'm damn proud of it anyways so
let's say subscribe I'd start the video
and ask foreigners in Japan
I say the change in the different
environment of campus life because I
don't feel as though say the school I go
to there's not much community I would
say yeah because the school I go back at
home is Fort Lewis College and we're
very involved with the students and we
provide so many different activities so
it was a culture shock coming from a
place that's so very uplifting to some
were more it's more business but there
is I would say more advantages because
it involves basically it prepares you
for how life will will be working so you
but what does your biggest challenge
then for you personally what do you
think maybe making friends and
networking even when you talk to
international students it's hard to get
over those cultural differences and
especially respect their culture you
don't any steps to like make better
networking happen or any things you want
to try from now I want to try involving
myself more in groups instead of
similarly going out there not going
after people but you know talking to
singularity people but to do more of a
group work I guess good what challenge
did you already complete anything wait I
Buddha was a bit challenging but I did
this in Japan and I did it probably one
of the more easier challenges to go
through but dealing with doing things
basically all by yourself not in terms
of like you know moving to Japan or like
studying in Japan but just like the very
little things like going to lunch and
going niche basically anywhere and then
having that I guess support from you
know the country of Japan where it's
like it's not weird in a sense to go to
size area by yourself and eat yeah it's
very very nice yeah because it's mainly
like you usually go in a group or in
pairs so it's very odd to see one person
just by themselves yeah very very odd
with like the language you know not
being so comfortable in it but you know
you so get over it because you know you
still have to eat you still have to do
these experiences yeah in each challenge
you failed so far I would say with the
making friends because I went out went
out of it or went towards it in the
wrong way I would say basically what I
usually do is that I go and I see
someone who like I'm interested and I'm
like hey they would I would have to be
friends with them like
talk to them however I realized that
seems really weird in Japan yeah
don't really do that right yeah yeah
yeah it's very weird in Japan so that's
where I failed but you know trying to
find a new way and looking at it from a
different perspective yeah
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loneliness maybe because you had to make
new friends and everything like come in
at first it's like okay yeah it's nice
and everything but then if you are
lonely like for a long time once you get
used to the city and that and stop being
like so surprised about everything like
you start to like miss your family or
your friends or get lonely until you get
new friends how did you overcome that
loneliness well I started going out and
first getting together with Argentinean
people and also in the restaurant like
since also since Japanese people are
usually shy at first it's it's harder
and like they are not like maybe like
that cinema like in Latin America people
are much more open a friendlier in some
way like at first - I so it goes really
slowly also not only Japanese friends I
made but only also since I worked at a
verse in a restaurant was really
international like many people from Sri
Lanka or Brazilians or other countries
so yeah and they are also like
foreigners that come to Japan and so
already really open to like being
friendly get myself to like natto which
is the fermented beans and I've tried
that before it I didn't love it but I
want to get exposed to it more so I can
start to learn to love it why would you
do that to yourself why not I think it's
good to appreciate different things and
if you don't appreciate them at least
learn to appreciate it you already don't
you think by doing the mandatory I will
eat it and that didn't like it but why
would you keep going on from there
that's just how I work that's my
mentality who made you eat it I'm
looking at you I made a meter I love it
so much so oh now I see you're trying to
like it so you can have it together for
breakfast exactly yeah
yes yesterday we did the very first like
self-service restaurant where you go to
the Machine and order from the machine
and then you go and take your ticket to
the place that was my first experience I
studied Japanese for five years so I can
speak a little bit but like kanji and
really still struggle yeah so I use the
English version on the machine to help
us yeah like trying to use the language
as much as possible during this day it's
tell as a challenge because I tend to
just try things anyway usually so I
don't know if I've like challenged
myself to anything but I guess it's more
of like if I see something new like I
guess more especially with food if I see
something like I haven't tried before
I'll just be like oh let's order this
one let's see what this is like so like
things like with like natto and stuff
like that like just challenge yourself
to eat natto and you past that you like
good bit of rice when I came here last
time it was on a school trip so we got
to do an exchange so um I think it was
actually a bit of a challenge sitting in
the Japanese classroom surrounded by
Japanese people and then just it was
listening and it's not like I actually
had to study thank God but I was that
was a bit of a challenge in itself being
the only foreigner and a cool Japanese
school and everyone's wearing the same
uniform and everything like that
that was a bit of a challenge yeah that
was really fun
what culture shock what difference did
you feel when you were at school I think
because I'm from New Zealand where it's
so normal to walk past someone who's
Arabic like us or Arabic or Indian or
Chinese or Korean it's just it's so
normal to see someone you wouldn't even
look twice whereas we had one class that
was just us foreign students they were
doing a special class for us and people
were just up against the window like
like waving at us and looking through
the window and I've got like I've got
like how's this all everything that was
I think that's a big culture shock is
just I think everyone is so not used to
seeing foreigners I think it's changed
over the years a bit but yeah that was
one thing
different it's pork
because I'm museum but until now I
didn't try it and I don't want to try
because there's so many dishes here with
pork right yeah
before in Tunisia I was training Kindle
and when I come to Japan it's like a
little bit hard to find place to train
to come back training hard because you
didn't know how the difference between
the training in Tunisia and the training
here so is it hard to find a school yeah
it's hard to talk that you have
background about these sports before
well you can't really tell the teacher
I've done this before yeah so if you
want the trainee assign it to back from
the beginning three massive challenges I
have done here in Japan one of it it's
riding on the fastest roller coaster
that was a crazy one and that was fairly
recent and me and another youtuber we
went to fuji-q highland and went on the
fastest jet coaster there that's that's
on my personal channel another thing
that I've done I've been on one of the
boat races race boats which are like
tiny boats and behind me was like the
the speed driver who was an actual racer
and she pushes like in that boat around
the corner it was crazy like my lashes
my fake lashes flew off because she was
so fast that's another thing that's also
on my channel and finally which I'm
still the proud to stuff because it took
me three years to complete it's climbing
Mount Fuji all the way to the top it's
not as easy as it sounds it was hard we
had rain it was cold people were getting
mountain sickness so finally after three
tries I made it and I've run to the top
and I made a video about it and I cried
and it was wonderful and I'm proud glad
I did it so yeah if you want to find out
more about that stuff come over to my
personal channel on that note what are
the greatest challenges you have dunno
what kind of challenges would you like
to get and complete when you come to
Japan what is known the codes looking
forward to finding out also please don't
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