Japan

I’ve always wanted to learn about the Japanese culture and just see their way of living and experience it myself. When I was entering high school as a freshmen, I had signed up for Josai which is a Foreign Exchange Program for Japan. Josai is a school in Tokyo and Tokyo is where we’d stay with our host families. Josai is more of a “rich kid” school so they have a lot of money to pay for our bus tickets. Ever since I was 12, I had always been fascinated by foreigners and Asia. I would watch Japanese cooking shows, Anime, and music. Korea is also another place i’d love to visit, especially Seoul. I listen to a lot of K-pop (korean pop) especially BTS, a Korean boy group that is popular all over the globe, including the U.S.I do a lot of fundraising for Josai so I can go to Japan after I graduate with Mrs. Anderson and some of the students here from SHHS. We plan to leave the morning of the Senior Night party and take off from there. I’ve also gotten a job at McDonald’s to help me pay for my trip to Japan and it pays minimum wage. This summer, we’re having students from Japan come to Sweet Home for two weeks to experience America and just have fun. The Josai club does a lot of concession stands at football, volleyball, and basketball games. We also clean up the football field and do car washes to help us raise money for our next trip in 2020.My mom has always told me that maybe in my previous life I was an Asian from Japan or Korea because I’m so interested in their culture, movies, shows, people, culture, and music. I also have Anime posters all over my bedroom walls, a Japanese doll on my bookshelf, 2 Japanese cooking books, K-pop Albums, and a Japanese language learning book. I’ve watched a lot of K-dramas like Descendants of the Sun, Train to Busan, Hwarang, and Pandora. When I was in 8th grade, I joined a Japanese club where we watched videos about Japan, learned how to write in Japanese, and took a trip to a Japanese grocery store that was connected to a Japanese book store and after that we had went to a ramen shop where they made it homemade. We had also met up with the Josai club and met the foreign exchange students at Mr. Buzzards house where we had a BBQ and got to know each other and hang out. Usually when the foreign exchange students come to SH we do a lot of activities. Last year we had morning English classes and then went shopping, swimming, eating, went to trampoline parks and had a BBQ. At home I have a Kimono and the sandals that go with them. I had bought a Japanese crate off of Amazon that came with a bunch of Japanese candy. That’s my life kind of, I’m a very private person and I don’t tend to tell people about things like this.