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In England, where would she eat breakfast?
a) At home
b) In a cafe
c) At work
Where did she do a lot of walking?
a) England
b) Japan
c) Both
Where does she live in Japan?
a) City center
b) The suburbs
c) The countryside
How is her routine here different?
a) She gets up early
b) She has a job
c) She studies all the time
How are the trains in London different
than the trains in Japan?
a) They are cleaner
b) They run on time
c) They are less crowded
Transcript
At the moment I'm living in Japan and life here is pretty different to anything I've really experienced
before. I think just because the daily routine is so different. In England, in England, basically I
was really lazy. I'd probably get up at you know 8:30 in the morning. Leave ten minutes later, cause
I always brush my teeth at work, eat breakfast at work, get to work for 9 o'clock, come home from work
at 5:30, probably lie on the sofa, watch the Simpsons, cook some food, go to bed, and that was the sort
of daily routine in England, a very lazy one. I mean, even if I needed to get to the supermarket which was
probably what, like 3-400 meters away, I'd get on my scooter to do it. Walking anywhere would be just
a massive hassle and so it was a bit of a shock when I got to Japan and all that changed, I mean, the one
thing you have to do a lot of in Tokyo is walk. You have to walk everywhere. I mean the train systems are
absolutely amazing but you need to walk to get to the train. You need to walk between the trains and like
when I first arrived, I walked my feet into the ground. After a week they were aching so badly after two
weeks. They were just I don't know, it took me at least a month to like wear my feet in. They're still,
still like now, after long walks, but it's just apart from the walking, you just, it's just a business
of life here, I mean cause no one actually lives in Tokyo cause it's so expensive. We all live out sort of
in the suburbs in what we call bed towns, and so actually getting into school every morning, I'm studying
Japanese here, I have to get up pretty early just to get onto the train, to then travel, commute, an hour
in, to get to school on time, which of course I never do. I'm meant to be at school at about nine, which
would mean, sort of leaving my house at about 8, getting up at 7. I know this is not shocking for a lot of
people, but after the routine I had, it's a pretty shocking experience for me, especially the hour of commuting
on the train where you're kept in like sardines, you just would never have in sort of London and London
underground in England where I'm from. On the London Undeground if the trains full people wait for the
next train. Here if the train is full, people just push and push until they get on so you can end up
being stood, never get to sit down, just standing for an hour, like squashed up, like sardines, so by the
time you get to school you're totally tired and then there's a school until lunch time and after lunch
I always say I'm going to come back and study but I never do I always come back and fall fast asleep.
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