hey guys welcome to vlogmas day 25 more
days till Christmas not that that's
anything exciting here in Japan cuz
nobody really does anything but it's
still kind of cool but yes today I'm
gonna do a Q&A video and I've also got
this gigantic box of goodies from France
but I really really really want to try I
got it already and I open it up and look
at how many things are in here it's so
heavy and there's an adorable cat
Christmas card on top so um yeah I'm
going to do the Q&A first and then I'm
going to get to opening these yummy
goodies from France so let's get started
what's the scariest experience that
you've had while in Japan um that would
be hands down my old apartment where I
used to live in Chiba Prefecture in the
summer the walls on the outside of my
apartment would get covered in where
they called in English these really
gigantic spiders huntsman spiders I
think they're freaking huge like bigger
than this and there would be about five
of them stuck to the wall outside of my
apartment like near the door and I would
like I would stand there waiting to get
into my apartment try to figure out how
I could run past these spiders without
them like jumping off me and sometimes
I'd be standing outside like at night in
for half an hour contemplating how to
get it um yeah for someone that's
terrified of spiders that was really
really horrible those things are so fast
and like it's not a species of spider
that I'm familiar with so I don't know
if they jump or I don't know man but I
had one chased me down the sidewalk once
so they're not scared of humans and yet
that was heads down the most terrifying
experiences you've had so far favorite
Pokemon I mentioned this in another
video Parris and right you do Restaurant
leftovers exist in Japan like can you
bring food home with you if you don't
finish your meal no no
usually the idea of taking food home
with you isn't really a thing here and
most restaurants will refuse to let you
do that because there's a chance that
you could get food poisoning if you
leave it out and don't refrigerate it
properly and then they're scared of
getting blamed for that that's what I've
heard the reason is so yeah you can't
really bring food home here sure there
are a couple of restaurants that will
let you more of like the foreign ones
like maybe Fridays or some of you like
steak houses but most restaurants know
Oh a couple of you asked if I could
continue my daily vlogs forever probably
not just because it doesn't leave me
much time to work on my main channel
however I am trying to grow this channel
so I will try to do as many vlogs as
possible over here I've kind of gotten
used to doing it every day so I'll try
to put out at least three videos a week
over here if I can wish me luck
what were some of your favorite bands
when you first moved to Japan I think I
mentioned some of them over in my how to
learn Japanese video or how I learned
Japanese video but juku which is
Japanese 419 so they write their name
like 1/9 asian kung-fu generation rad
wimps doyeong gray bump of chicken such
a weird name those are some of the top
ones that come to mind
how did you decide Morrow's name Mauro's
name comes from the japanese word for
marshmallow which is mash motto so it's
the ending of mash muddle because he's
fluffy what made you want to go study in
Japan of all places and was your first
year in Japan as amazing as you expected
it to be well my first year in Japan I
was 19 I think and yeah that was
probably like one of my best years in
Japan it was the most challenging
because I didn't bring enough money with
me so at one point I had like 10 cents
in my bank account and I was so lucky
because I remember that that week I was
like freaking out tried to figure out
what to do and somebody came out to me
on the street was like hey do you want
to be an English teacher yes yes I do
and that's how I got my first job here
actually I used to live in the
countryside there weren't many
foreigners so I guess they were excited
to see a foreigner and they figured that
I could speak English and I would be
good for the job so I was really lucky
um but yeah my first year was definitely
one of my best years here just because
it was so exciting everything was new
and fun and I kind of missed that so I
think in the future I'll probably go to
another countries because I really like
experiencing new things and I really
hope I get the chance to move somewhere
else in the future um but I chose Japan
for my first place to come because I've
spoken Japanese for a while I started
studying Japanese when I was like 14 or
15 or something I can't remember in high
school and I had lots of Japanese
friends in Canada so Japan was kind of
like always my second home I had come
back and forth here several times before
I decided to move here so yeah I
recently started learning Japanese and
have almost gotten the basic hiragana
down is it necessary for me to learn
katakana as well or should I go on to
words and kanji um definitely do
katakana ii next to kita ghana it's
probably one of the most important
alphabets because even if you don't
speak japanese if you can learn the
katakana alphabet and how to read it
most of the katakana words are english
words so if you can pronounce it for
example like keen you can see that it
says chi keen and you can figure out
that it's chicken even if you don't
speak Japanese so learning cut the kana
is very helpful for things like foods
and like everyday household items like
tape it or teddy be and stuff like that
so yeah I definitely go with katakana
next it's a lot easier than kanji kanji
is kind of like an endless process so
get your heater gonna cut the kana down
and then you can work on starting kanji
and just do that for the rest you like
cuz it'll never end
can you drive also what's your favorite
car I don't have a license here in Japan
so I can't drive here my favorite car is
probably the skyline r34 2 32 or 34 1
what was the hardest part about moving
to Japan and adapting to life there um
probably all the like paper work kind of
stuff like applying for health insurance
applying for a bank account all those
kind of things because it was all words
that I wasn't really familiar with so
every time I would have to do any of
that boring kind of stuff I would be
kind of confused and end up having to
look up lots of words so that was
probably the toughest my conversational
Japanese has always been really good but
for stuff like that it's always been
kind of difficult for me so yeah all
that kind of like non fun stuff that you
have to do as a person who lose by their
self that was probably the hardest part
what color would you never dye your hair
probably dark gray because that looked
horrible and I'm so glad that it's gone
what you use on your skin to keep it
looking so youthful I don't really use
anything like super fancy or anything
it's probably because I don't go out in
the Sun much and if I do I always wear
sunscreen I think that's probably the
most important thing because if you town
a lot you get lots of wrinkles and your
skin starts to look really dry so yeah
stay away from the Sun or protect your
skin from it if you were stranded on a
deserted island what's the one thing you
take with you maro
definitely maro if he doesn't count as a
thing then I would take my phone so that
I can play Nicolette's there do you plan
to go back to Canada to live or do you
consider Japan to be your permanent home
now yeah I will go back to Canada
eventually I don't want to live here
just because I feel like it wouldn't be
very convenient when I'm older I don't
really think the pension system and the
health system are very good here so I
would go back to Canada though for sure
not sure when but eventually is it
easier to eat fairly healthy in Japan
compared to Canada or America I can't
speak for America because I've only been
there a couple times and I'm not really
sure what kind of foods are available
there but it's definitely a lot easier
to eat healthy in Canada actually we
have lots of health food stores lots of
people are vegan and vegetarian so that
kind of like vegetable culture is a big
thing that is lesser restaurants with
tons of vegetable
and it's kind of hard to find dishes
here that have vegetables in them oh it
sounds really weird but most of the
dishes are like rice meat and then a
little bit of vegetable as a side dish
or like a little salad or something so
yeah I found it a lot easier to eat
healthy in Canada how did your family
react when you first decided to move to
Japan um well they weren't I don't think
they were very surprised I had gone back
and forth to Japan probably twice a year
for several years before I decided to
move here I'm sure they're sad and they
wanted me to stay in Canada but they've
always been really supportive so it's
not like they were like don't go or
anything what do you think of Japanese
fashion well there's so many different
types of Japanese fashion it's kind of
hard to just imagine one and say what I
think of it but I really really like the
super colorful hot a juku fashion I
think it's really cute and I like to
just take like pieces of it and include
it in my wardrobe the whole look doesn't
really suit me but I like to include
pieces of it and I just love the
colorfulness I think it's super cute
Sharla do you have a dream cosplay or a
dream J fashion outfit um dream cosplay
would probably be B goo from Final
Fantasy cute one with the bikini um and
the scarf I'd probably have to lose a
lot of weight to look cute in that but
one day I would really like to cosplay
that outfit I love it
what's your natural hair color um I
think I had my natural hair color for
about a year or two in my videos I think
um in the videos where I'm wearing a
kimono if you search for like Sharla
kimono you can see my natural hair but
it's like a really dark ashy blonde
really really dark close to brown but um
if I go on the Sun for a bit it'll kind
of get some blonde highlights in it it's
alright but I just didn't really like
the shade of it I like my hair to be a
little bit lighter something like this
my natural hairs a little bit too dark
for me do you turn into a martyr Chen
when you are at home and not recording
yes
favorite sweet / dessert you've tried in
Japan this is a really hard one I've
been thinking about making a
like six desserts to try in Japan kind
of video but it's been so hard to make a
list of my top ones because I really
like everything here the desserts here
are so good all of them I don't even
like cake but I like Japanese cake
because it's not as sweet and the icing
isn't gross like it is in Canada
honestly they're all good if I could
just pick one off the top of my head
maybe pudding Japanese pudding is really
nice it's kind of more of like an egg
custard but it's so good do you prefer
loose leaf tea or bag tea um loose leaf
tea always seems to taste better I don't
know why I guess it depends on the brand
probably because it's usually more
expensive stuff um but I usually use bag
tea because I'm lazy and I don't want to
put it in a strainer do you have a
favorite kind of dog if you do what kind
I'm not really a dog fan I don't just
like them or anything I just don't
really like them I don't know if I had
to get a dog it would be a Pomeranian
because they look the closest to cats
okay I think that's enough questions
this is probably gonna be like 20
minutes long so sorry for the long video
because this video got so long I think
I'm gonna split it into two parts so
this will be the Q&A part and if you
want go watch the video where I open up
my box of French snacks and try them out
I will post it at the same time as this
one so I'll link it right here so go
check that out thanks for watching guys
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