One day I saw a foreign lady at the gym near our new home, so we went up and introduced ourselves. Turns out she organizes a Mama group with lots of Mamas from different countries- here we are in the photo. I'm the tallest! Funny.........Terrific group- Indonesians, Filipino, Chinese, Polish, Mexican, Taiwanese and most of them speak some English, they all speak Japanese. For me, since I'm not Japanese, I find it weird to speak to other non-Japanese in Japanese, so I spoke English and they all seemed to like it. I guess they didn't think to speak English, since none of them are Native English speakers anyway. I realized how Americans miss out somewhat on a great experience by not learning at least one foreign language. All these people could speak English and their native language, plus Japanese. Does learning another language make you wealthy? That is the question many Americans might ask, the answer is No, but it gives you confidence. Anyways........here's a photo of how I'm looking these days up close..........
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