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To do this . So my connection

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with Japan , it stems from my mother's

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side every summer break in the United

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States . Japan would still have school .

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So I would go there for about two

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months and cover all the topics that

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the native students learn . So it's

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pretty intense . But I did that for

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about nine years . So it's definitely a

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surreal being back in Japan . I'm very

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privileged to be here . I wouldn't even

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describe it as a job . It's just , um ,

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going in , doing what I enjoy and

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coming home with the best stories that

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I could ever ask for .