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im pretty sick of japan again
and i bet lots of people are thinking "how can you be bored in japan?"
you would have to live here for a long time to experience the crappiness of a lot of things.
explain good sir. ive been itching to go for a long time now. whats not to like?
if its new to you, its really great. the first few days i was back here were filled with surprises and wows and aahs. then i got used to it again.
there are many reasons that i am sick of japan, and i dont think i can figure them all out. a lot of my friends want to leave though, but maybe thats just like any person whos lived in the same country for too long.
first of all to be honest one big reason is the lack of pot. its so uselesly strict here and a lot of people are falsely educated about it and think its an addictive terrible drug that makes you really dumb. lots of places near tokyo seem to have more dealers than around where i live, but recently a lot of them have been getting caught or quitting because of the huge risk of getting caught.
on the other side, the lack of pot makes the times that you actually do pot very special and edgy and x-treme. you can act really stupid infront of people and they will leave you alone. doing pot with my friends in japan is always the best days of my year.
then theres the fact that im white and you dont really see many white teens too often here. at first its kind of nice, but sometimes when youre on a train and people look at you you want to run away. i sometimes over hear girls talking and laughing about how i look like some movie star and sometimes i hear asshole teens making pointing out that im a foreigner and laughing. over the years they have gotten used to more foreigners though. when i was a kid, people would see me and say "look! a foreigner!". now a lot of people leave you alone and treat you like a normal person. sometimes people treat you like shit just because you arent japanese though. people at shops try and get their co workers to serve me because they think that they will have a hard time understanding me. sometimes i look at business men and they look like they are thinking "get the fuck out of my country". maybe thats just me being too sensitive and over thinking about it though.
sometimes people are nice to you because youre white, and its nice sometimes. they try their best to speak english and they say funny cute things.
then theres the people who are usually much less friendly than the people i see in canada. you always see over worked business men giving each other bad looks. the culture is way different, and most people worry about being polite compared to being a nice person. its just my taste, but i would rather go to a video shop and get comments on what i rented and talk about stuff with the workers instead of getting bowed at and getting the same thing said to me every single time i rent videos. it makes a lot of the people unkind too, because they have to act like they are lower than the customer.
in japan when you are younger or are in a lower rank, you have to use a slightly different way of talking which shows your "respect". because of that, sometimes its hard to make friends quickly with a person that is higher rank than you because you are constantly acting like a slave to them. i dislike this culture, and i wish everyone treated everyone equally. thats just my opinion though and many japanese think that its a good thing and that they should keep their culture.
then theres the teens. in canada i had lots of different friends. girls, boys, everyone was totally into making new friends. in japan i have had the same friends for years. now that we have hung out with each other for so long we are like brothers, and we can talk about stuff we can only understand and its truly great to have friends like this. the bad thing is that i get bored a lot because i am with the same people most of the time, and i dont have interesting arguments and hear new ideas because me and my friends basically have the same views on everything.
there are lots of people that have lots of friends here, but the thing is that you have to be normal to hang out with the "cool" people. if you say things out of the ordinary, people think youre weird and thats usually viewed as a bad thing. i am a huge fan of weirdness and i love it when people do weird stuff, but most of the out going people here dont support it, and they all sound the same sometimes. if you are weird you are usually a geek here, and lots of the weird people are into anime and things that im not into at all. if you want a good looking girl friend, you have to try so damn hard to act normal and cool. im sure its like this in a lot of places, but in canada it seemed like there were a type of interesting people that werent geeks that enjoyed people who acted differently.
then theres the mass amount of buildings and bridges and cars and everything. it looks so cool at first, but after a while it gets depressing sometimes.
japan is a very unique place that in my opinion is the funnest places to visit. its packed with good things youd only see in japan and im grateful that i spent most of my life here. but i think ive had enough of it and its time to move and explore other places. im here for 2 more months and honestly i wish i could go back to canada next week with my japanese friend thats moving there with me. im just sick of a lot of stuff. im sure that a lot of bad things ive said about japan can be argued, but thats how i view japan right now. its hard to criticize something that has so many sides to it. any questions are welcome if you dont understand what im trying to say.
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