yeah? well, your mom's 'backwards'!

[herzchen]

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[iideliishii]

While I may not have been on Peace Corps, I've definitely experienced a lot of misconceptions coming back from living abroad. It's hard at first dealing with people who know nothing about where you've spent the last few years of your life, but it does get easier. When I first came back from Japan, the type of reactions I experienced ranged from "Oh" to "How was it?" to "Is it weird with the one child law?" (yeah, people get Japan and China mixed up, how sad is that) to "Oh! My *so and so* also spent time in Japan!" Japan is a bit more commonly traveled than Dominica, so I have randomly met people who have also been there or even spent a lot of time there (the latter being much easier to relate to, because tourists in the country get a very different experience than residents. I'm tired of hearing from people who were there for two weeks how Japanese people are "so nice." Yeah, well try and spend a few years there, get good at their language, work in an office setting, and THEN see how they react when you're a little more on the

[herzchen]

thanks for sharing. yeah, it's def different than when i've returned from germany... for one thing, most americans are in fact aware that a country named germany exists! ;-)