[Music]
so
whenever i had some kind of look
okay
hi everyone this is ellie you probably
remember me
from the other two videos i thought that
i would probably introduce myself as i
said my name is ellie
and i come from a very small country in
slovakia we have only 1 000 inhabitants
living in my village
so you can probably imagine how shocked
i was when i got on the tokyo metro
and saw more people on the train than in
my entire village
there was quite a cultural shock but
i've been wanting to come to japan since
i was around seven years old i think and
it started with a song called sakura
sakura that my sister showed me
and in this song they used lots of
traditional instruments like shamisen
and kodo
and it totally mesmerized me and i just
knew that i wanted to come to japan
and start learning it and that's what
i'm actually trying to do nowadays
although it's not as
successful and smooth as i was expecting
it to be but i am doing my best
so apart from music another thing that
attracted me
about japan was definitely anime as well
and the culture and traditions and just
a very
rich history but after i came to japan i
realized that my favorite thing about
japan is definitely the people that i
meet
i've been very lucky with the encounters
while traveling
or just the people that i meet every day
because everybody treated me very nice
everybody was very open so that was such
an important thing for me because
when you come to a foreign country you
might feel alone in the beginning
of course there's this beginning phase
where you kind of feel alone but thanks
to the people that i met
now i i feel like i'm part of a
community now that's definitely
something that i appreciate the most
and i hope that i can meet even more
people
especially when traveling i want to
speak to more locals i want to hear
their story
and hear about their life because you
know they are very willing to
to share their story with you as long as
you're willing to listen
and even in the beginning when i
couldn't even speak japanese just some
few words
despite the language barrier i still
felt like we could communicate
they were still very open and welcoming
so i want to meet more of these kinds of
people
i want to see more of the places that
are off the beaten path
of course very popular places in japan
are amazing and beautiful but
i feel like these off-beaten paths in
japan
have some sort of magic so i hope that i
can discover more of these kinds of
places
and i hope that i can share this with
all of you and i hope that you can enjoy
japan just as much as i do
because it's truly a wonderful place so
let us get along