No.21372[Reply]
Sushis, have you recently experienced situations that went from bad to good? What was it like? What happened? Did it make you feel human?
Me and a few other people run a regular local meetup for students of my uni that are interested in Japan to hang out, talk and have fun. We also have a bunch of Japanese regulars, that use the meetup to hang out with the other Japanese people in town.
Twice a year, exchange students from random unis in Japan come to our city for a month, to do language lessons and stuff. We always get the task of doing some fun activities with them, outside of our regular meetups. Now this was the first time I was part of running this whole operation, and we had something nice planned out. We'd meet them at one of the typical student hangout spots in our city, together with a few of the Japanese people in our group, spend some time with them and grab a bite to eat. In short, a calm hangout, to let them get used to speaking to us foreigners.
What is the bad thing? Well, none of the exchange students showed up. We waited for them in the cold, but none showed up. It's not a mandatory event or anything, so that's fine, but it still was a bit disappointing.
But it turned around! We still went in to eat and had a lovely day with the regulars of our group that turned up! One of the Japanese regulars announced that he'd be leaving soon and moving back to Tokyo, so we reminisced in our memories we had with him and had a very pleasant and fun day.
It really made me appreciate life, if just for a little while.
I hope y'all also have experiences like this!
No.21373
Other than sudden cancellations allowing me to do something else that turned out interesting, no. I’d say there are more cases of good things turning bad. Generally, the longer I spend around a group of people the faster they realize I’m not right in the head and they begin gradually ostracizing me. I burn through friendships in about a week or two on average.
Oh wait, there was that time I was r*ped in high school because I can at least say I’m not a virgin and buy unwanted sympathy when I need to feign excuses or get something for free from frigid bureaucratic institutions. I hope it’s grounds for neetbux in the future.
No.21374
Anything that allows me to go outside really, even if things don't work out I get to see pretty girls.
>>21373Reading comprehension isn't your strength isn't it?
No.21396
I turned up at a quiz for exchange students randomly. Turned out it was basically an ESOL class and I ended up with team of two Japanese girls. They were the weakest team on points. But since I'm dark skinned, I pretended to be ESOL and helped them win by a landslide and won them a box of chocolates which we shared out with everyone else. I didn't exercise my social skills or make new friends but I'd say it was still a happy result.
No.21426
Update from OP:
So all of our announcements of the events didn’t even reach the exchange students, that’s why they didn’t show up. After contacting them directly, they actually did show up to our second event, all 9 of them! Surprisingly, all of them were girls, and thankfully they seemed to get along with each other really well. Not a lot of locals attended, but the exchange students seemed to have fun hanging out and going around town afterwards with the few of us.
I honestly wanted to cancel the event beforehand, since it looked like I’d have to run the whole thing myself. It made me nervous. We had a lovely time though, which again showed me not to run away from stuff just because it makes me nervous or uncomfortable. The girls were kind, some other locals showed up and we had a lovely time all in all.
