Japanese want FG experience

[Mulboyne]

Yomiuri: Homestays get closer to home
What do you do if you would like to try a homestay overseas to improve your foreign-language skills and experience a different culture, but you lack time and money?...In August last year, Remi Kusakari enjoyed a three-day homestay program with one of her friends at an American family's home in Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture. "Although I was still in Japan, I was able to lead a genuine American life," the 21-year-old unemployed woman recalled. "We had fun watching a U.S. movie while eating popcorn and discussing each other's lifestyles until late at night," Kusakari said. "We laughed all day long during the three-day stay."

[Samurai_Jerk]

"We had fun watching a U.S. movie while eating popcorn and discussing each other's lifestyles until late at night," Kusakari said. "We laughed all day long during the three-day stay."

Wow. That does sound like fun.

Y48,000 for a night with an American family. What a deal.

[Neo-Rio]

What's really pathetic though, is the Japanese will pay people to be their friends. That says a lot about them.

[FG Lurker]

What's really pathetic though, is the Japanese will pay people to be their friends. That says a lot about them.

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[vir-jin]

"Although I was still in Japan, I was able to lead a genuine American life," ... "We had fun watching a U.S. movie while eating popcorn and discussing each other's lifestyles until late at night," ..."We laughed all day long during the three-day stay."

...genuine american...lifestyle discussion...laughter...

international conversation about exciting topics on maybe 6 all american square meters?. zoo in a zoo, but who is watching who

[vir-jin]

What's really pathetic though, is the Japanese will pay people to be their friends. That says a lot about them.

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A much older guy told me: "When a woman looks at a man, she sees either one of two people. A lover, or someone to take advantage of."

we're a generation raised by women. I don't think we will get our problems solved by another woman.

please go ahead I listen :P

[bejiita]

Oops, wrong post.

[Captain Japan]

It would seem that the real thing isn't quite working out...
Young people's overseas work experience fails to advance careers
Mainichi

While young people who obtain work experience overseas have a tendency to develop international awareness, initiative and communication ability, they rarely obtain specialist knowledge and skills and have a lower income after they return to Japan, a government survey has found.

Because the number of young people utilizing working holidays and international internships to work overseas is increasing, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare formed an investigative research committee to examine the effects of overseas work experience on young people.

The committee conducted a survey on 6,411 people aged under 35 at the time of their departure who had returned to Japan by December 2003, and received answers from 1,538 people.

The average age of respondents was 27.8, and 80 percent of them were female. The average time they spent overseas was five months. The most popular destination was Australia, followed by New Zealand, Canada, and the United States.

[vir-jin]

While young people who obtain work experience overseas have a tendency to develop international awareness, initiative and communication ability, they rarely obtain specialist knowledge and skills and have a lower income after they return to Japan, a government survey has found.

I think that's reasonable. My scholarship provided some seminars on culture shock and so on. they told us that working or study abroad contributes mainly to your character not to your skills. I am fine with that, if it should work out.
Even if you try your best, the new environment, language, culture assumes you. comparing what a native speaker and I could get out of any conversation - I would concentrate not on words and information but on body language I guess. That tells you a lot what words couldn't describe :P

as to the lower income- no connections and barely knowledge how things run in your own country, sounds reasonable too.