My Kazoku (famliy)

As you may or may not know I am a American girl living in Japan.

I have been living in Japan for about 10 years now and it has been very interesting!

I came to Japan as a teenager, I was a military brat lol and fell in love with the country and a boy and stayed.

I know many people who want to come and live in Japan, while it is a very wonderful country there is defintitely "Culture Shock" and thats what I experienced when my parents left. I was 19 when my mom and dad went back to the state so that was very hard for me but I also was living in one of the most amazing places anyone could ever visit or live! I was living in Tokyo at the time and it is a very very large city so it was like a huge adventure for me. I have pretty much lived in a small town all my life so yes this was very exciting! I was in one of the greatest cities in the world with the boy that I loved (and still do...7 years of marriage later(^^)! ) Japanese culture is very different from American culture, Their culture is based highly on respect and consideration of others and I have never experienced so much hospitality and kindness as much  as I have in Japan. While I must say just like any other country you have A-holes,lol and sometimes I get frusrated and feel alone but i try not to let that change my view on Japan. When I married my husband  it entered me into a world alittle different then people who just come and visit, I married a japanese man therefore I had to learn the customes. I must admit sometimes its hard but I am very lucky for I have been able to see things and learn things that are very different from my own views (I love it!) I am very lucky that my husbands parents were very accepting and generous people! I still have days where I really miss living in my own country but then I think and feel like how lucky am I to be able to experience another culture so deeply and different from my own...I wouldnt trade it for anything.

My boys

(kaz & kai)