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>>82861 Both, the first day it was just with the other 'mericans, but once we got into classes and met people it was always a mixed group. Most of the time when it was just Americans it was the Friday field trips we got dragged away on. Pretty much for the entire month I was out late hanging out, partying, seeing movies, just completely busy every night. I'm not exactly mister popular back home but I know how to be social, and I felt like a goddamn rockstar in Japan. It helped we were in Niigata, so very far away from the tourism on the East coast. Probably the only Americans within 100 miles. It was insanely fun and I made great friends both American and Japanese, and Chinese, and Thai, there were other study abroad students at the college.
Best attitude to have is to just aim to make friends and have fun with them. Put yourself in a "no holding back" mindset before you get there and go with it, worked out great for me. Its far easier to friend girls there in my opinion, many guys seem to have some attitude problem I could never quite figure out, but we did meet some awesome guys, it may just be a maturity thing.
Anyway, I recommend it to anyone, Japan was a great place to visit, I'm hoping to go back and do some more touristy crap next year and maybe meet up with some old friends.
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