hey guys how's it going my name is
Mikayla and for those of you just tuning
in I'm actually in canada this weekend
because my best friend from elementary
school got married in whistler and i
went and it looks fantastic and i had a
great time and now that i've been
vancouver before i go back to japan i
thought that this would be a really good
opportunity for me to do something that
is a little bit out of my comfort zone
but could potentially be a lot of fun
the only other time that I've ever done
a meet-up a YouTube you know in my life
was with my best friend Andrew right
here in Vancouver and we met outside of
New kakuhen I remember about 50 people
showed up and it was crazy the whole
misunderstand i was really really really
happy to see everyone and i had a great
time but I did feel like at the end of
the day didn't know what I could do for
those people like I didn't know what I
was doing that made it worth everyone
come out and like see me in the rain and
so up until now like for the past few
years I've kind of avoided having
meetups just because i didn't i didn't
know what they were worth to you I
didn't know I didn't know how they could
be a value to someone other than the
person who's throwing them I don't know
that makes sense um I'm actually going
up to GU garden like right now after
after I make this um to do my first ever
solo meet up and I'm really really
nervous I'm so nervous but this time I'm
I I think it's going to go better than
last time because one we're holding it
at a restaurant on a Japanese restaurant
no less so there's gonna be food there's
gonna be food thank god there's gonna be
food so if you're ever nervous just
stuff your face but that's not all
that's not all I also brought gifts for
people um I didn't know how many people
were going to show up so I only brought
gifts for 20 people only 20 people but
it turns out that like up to 30 I think
32 people of
SVP I don't know if everyone's going to
show up but um yeah I've got stuff for
20 people and I just packed it all up by
the door I can see it so I'm really
excited I think this is gonna be fun oh
my god so many people I thank you for
coming people say to me you make copies
yeah you know English is be improved
yeah how to get a girlfriend girlfriend
what got that I thought she go she had
our children children a not so first yep
you want a Canadian girlfriend yeah he's
right
I like open the shirt down to here so
your chest is showing the cocooning on
the kid
this girl's leg like
like men that look like they came from
forest oak forest men
but the he is amazed and I get my thing
is good I may not be able to entertain
everyone I'm not entertaining and not
everyone's gonna like me or like be like
wow you were so much fun you're like the
life of the party because that's about
the kind of person I am but I'm gonna
try my best to talk to everyone instead
this time I think my motivation is not
just to like take selfies with everyone
but also to inspire people you know when
I look back at everything that I've done
in Japan I'm really proud of it in my
life like all of those things started
from a decision to study abroad and to
move overseas and try my best to make a
life in japan and i think that for a lot
of people that are coming tonight they
have that same kind of feeling whether
it be at the back of their mind or
whether they're already here there's so
many people japanese people who have
RSVP to the event and i think that that
means that they're here either on
working holiday or their exchange
students and so that means that they are
in the same position that i was in what
10 years ago now 10 years so i realized
that this time my meetup isn't like for
me to like high five everyone and remind
myself that I'm popular it's it's to
talk to these people who are just
starting out and to inspire them and if
you sure them that everything is fine
that they're on the right track and that
um if they are interested in like for
example if they're Canadian and they
want to go to Japan I want to be able to
give them that that inspiration of
motivation to do that because my life
completely changed when I followed my
gut and I did the things that I felt but
I really wanted to
and I think that this time it's going to
be different because I think I can I
think I can help people and I think as
long as I remember that that's what I'm
there to do it's gonna be a lot better
than the first time I'm wearing these
types to like make my legs look north
end I realized that it's kind of America
well Japanese business-savvy which means
a scam to scan my legs in all this pan
haha
you