Monday, February 6, 2012

I'm kinda famous

My husband and I were doing some insurance things at the town hall and for some strange reason everyone there kept looking at me. I pretended that I didn't see it because I just figured it was more of that stereotypical Japanese looking at foreigners thing. It wasn't until my husband went up to pay some things that one of the guys had a bit of a conversation with him. I couldn't catch all of it but one of the things he did say was "It's been about a year now, eh? " And I had no idea what he was talking about, my husband looked a little bit confused as well. We both kinda clued in as the same time. I've been here for about a year-ish now. Although it's been over a year, it's still generally in the vicinity of 12 months.

My husband informed me after that I'm famous in our town. Which inflated my ego a bit until I remembered that there's only two Canadians here. And from what I gather, the stereotypical version of a foreigner in Japans' eyes is a white skinned, blue eyed, blonde hair American. They don't seem to count other Asian countries, or they just don't notice them too much as they have similar facial features. I've got two out of the four (No blonde hair, not from the USA) so I guess that's why. The two Canadians in this town are in the minority out of all the foreigners who live here (And there's at least twenty) yet we probably are the most well known.

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