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Fukuoka

Mmm… I have memories of Fukuoka…

Ur listening to Ken Hirai and thinking of Fukuoka?

Yes… but the timelines don’t match! I only discovered Ken Hirai AFTER age 18… Fukuoka memories are high school girls memories…

Okay… 👀 (side-eye)

Giggles… 🤭💕

Well we had a sister school in Fukuoka… and we had an exchange program. I did stay with my host family for like, 4 days or something like that?

4 days in Fukuoka…

Something like that. I don’t remember all the details.

Uhuh…

We had to wear our Australian school uniforms. But my host sister took me around with her group of friends after school and we were just being normal kids at a shopping mall, after school, hanging out…

Right…

I got that experience of being in a group of Japanese school girls just hanging out at a shopping mall after school! At least for 4 days… 🤭💕

Mmmhmm…? And did anything else happen? Also — the school was all girls as well?

Yes… so my host family had my host sister, and her younger brother. She went to the girls school and he went to the boys school…

Did they have a nice house?

I’m not sure …

What?

I’m not sure if it was a nice house by Japanese standards? Maybe it was a normal house?!

Okay. Keep going with your story.

Well, the boys school had their uniforms and the girls school had their uniforms…

Uhuh…

And then when we were at the shopping mall, there was like a group of boys. In that all black uniform? All black with the buttons?

Uhuh… (where is she going with this!?)

Well they were all there just standing in like a small circle…

Who’s they?

I don’t know! Just a group of them!

And then my host sister and her friends and me, we were standing around as well?!

And then everyone was speaking Japanese and giggling and I had no idea what was going on…

I got the feeling the two groups knew each other but were standing like 10 metres apart… just in the middle of the shopping mall!

(Chuckles…)

Then my host sister said to me in English, “They (the boys)… are looking at you!” And everyone burst into more giggles!!!!

😏 school kids stuff…

Yes… 🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭 lots of giggles…

Did any of the boys approach you?!

I don’t remember that happening…

Anyway that was my 4 days of a Japanese high school girls experience!

🤣🤣🤣🤣 LOL….