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This weekend, I spent a lot of time with Japanese. I wrote an essay in Japanese, met Japanese friends,  talked to Japanese friends and family, and Japan won the Women's World Cup!!!!

First of all, my professor in Japan asked me to write an article about my experience in El Salvador because the student group, called The Others, publish a new letter and wanted to put my article. So that I started writing the article in JAPANESE... I thought it was easy to do that since Japanese was my mother tongue; however, once I started writing, I found it was much more difficult than I thought. It was because I haven't written an essay or article in Japanese for at least 11 months, I'm already used to writing in English, so my sentence structure and vocabulary are English, and I'm not good at writing originally. Therefore, it took almost four hours to write one page...

Second, I met and talked to Japanese friends a lot!! I drank with Chieu and another Japanese friend, and we talked about many things for hours. Chieu was almost drunken as usual :P hahahaha And another day, I met a friend who was from the same university. He came to Vancouver just two months ago, so it was very interesting to hear what he felt, experienced new things, and so on because I have been here almost for 11 months and keep forgetting what I thought when I came here. We talked about our university, job hunting, after we go back to university, and so on. I think it is good to have friends who know my school or city in common. Since I have been stressed out about the many projects or homework, it was very refleshing time for me.

And!!!!!!! In the Women's World Cup, Japan won against the U.S.!!!!!!!!!!!! The final game was amazing!!!!! I was glued to the PC and very excited. I could feel how the players were tense during the PK. That reminded me the scene in 2010 FIFA World Cup. Japan lost in PK. However, we won the cup this time!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This was the most exciting time on this weekend!!! :)

LOVE JAPAN!!