Living In Yen How Not to Move to Japan Gracefully eBook Susan A Sistare
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Quite possibly the only how-not-to book ever written, Susan A. Sistare reveals the clumsy transition from a Southern Belle bursting at the seams to navigator of all things foreign in Living in Yen How Not to Move to Japan Gracefully. With such tasks as remembering her train ticket, refraining from pressing buttons, and learning how to use a Japanese ATM labeled only with stick figures, Sistare must accomplish these feats and more with no more assistance than a Japanese phrase book and a little self-deprecating humor.
Having been informed that one can buy beer from vending machines in Japan, Sistare flies across the world armed with optimism, thirst, and a job teaching English. However, it's a rocky start the directions to her apartment are all in Japanese, her roommates were "as welcoming as a venereal disease," and her mother back home still badgers her about wearing lipstick and not having boys over (even though she's thirty years old and across the world from the curious eyes of her mother's church friends). But a serendipitous train ride finds Sistare with a new Japan Adjustment Coordinator (who wiggles his way into her heart just before releasing her back into the wild) and a hilarious collection of coworkers are the best medicine for homesickness, heartache, and unprecedented hangovers.
Follow Sistare as she spends an unforgettable year living in yen, getting lost, laughing, surviving an illness, and miraculously hanging on to her passport through all of this. She will show you how it's done.
Just not gracefully.
Living In Yen How Not to Move to Japan Gracefully eBook Susan A Sistare
This is a good and very funny but bittersweet introduction to Japanese culture and language, with heart, humor and humanity (including, in the spirit of education, repetitive use of Japanese words). The funniest depictions are of her nontraditional students and her roommates. I inferred that the author's Canadian roommate, a masculine tatted-up woman who had frequent affairs with married men, cared about her in spite of lacking boundaries and simply being insufferable.I enjoyed this story very much except for the repetitive accounts of ESL-staff get togethers in bars. It's impossible to make stories of bar camaraderie interesting to readers who were not there more than once or twice. There is sufficient heft to the book that much of this could be edited out. For such a young author (about 30 at the time of the story), the repeated accounts of blackouts after drinking--even after just drinking a little--are troubling.
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Living In Yen How Not to Move to Japan Gracefully eBook Susan A Sistare Reviews
An excellent read. As someone who has traveled and lived abroad in several different countries, the experiences described in this book were very relatable. I cried frequently----mostly from laughing so hard but occasionally from feeling the author's painful moments too. I highly recommend checking this one out!
I wasn't sure what to think of this book when I first started it. I kept reading and found myself laughing out loud sometimes and at the end, crying. A rollercoaster of a ride is this book. Take care and stay healthy Susan. Thank you for sharing your fears, laughter, accomplishments and love in Japan.
I've always wanted to teach in Japan, but I have never qualified for any of the teaching programs since I don't have a College Degree of any sort. The next best thing is reading about the experiences that others have, especially when you're reading a book written by an author such as Susan A. Sistare, whose writing drags you in and makes you feel as if you are actually part of the story.
"Living In Yen" is a great book because it tells the side of teaching that most books don't. Instead of glamorizing everything, you experience Susan's frustration and fears as she is thrown into a completely foreign county with no one she can trust completely. Luckily, she meets a man named Calvin, who helps her adjust in the most amusing ways possible mailing her maps so that she can find her way to the important sites such as Pubs, helping her laugh when she's dealing with awful roommate situations, and introducing her to people and places that become a part of her life in Japan. It also doesn't hurt that "The Accent" is Scottish and owns a kilt. Throughout the book, Calvin is a part of Susan's world and she would be a very different person if she hadn't met him on that train. What turns into a wonderful experience in the long run, could have easily turned horrible if Susan hadn't formed the network of friends, both Japanese and Foreign, that help her in happiness and sadness.
I admit that I cried several times in the last few chapters. Some tears of joy and some of sorrow. And though it's even more sad knowing that this is a true story, Susan's courage and strength in forcing herself to live make this one of the best books that I have read in a while, and probably the best autobiography. The story of her life is not a dry and emotionless telling of facts, but instead shows you the brightness of the world around you, even when sometimes it feels as if it's falling apart.
I may be biased on this book for many reasons, the biggest of which is that I too, went from graceless southern anti-belle to living in a foreign world...not Japan, but Mexico and even though the exact issues weren't the same (the language was a lot easier) there are so many things that translated to my experience living abroad as well. I can vouch for the fact that this is a true and accurate rendering of moving to and navigating in a foreign world.
But what Sistare does with her experience is a stroke of literary elegance. She creates a sometimes loveable, sometimes hateable cast of characters and supporting characters that follow her throughout the story. Sistare writes from an honest, open and very vulnerable viewpoint. She is a self proclaimed "bad ass" who boldy breaks through the norms of Southern culture and even more so, Japanese culture. But she also writes from a place of brutal honesty with herself about the trials and tribulations she had to endure. Her insights and opinions are witty, insightful and provoking.
Susan Sistare paints a very nice picture from the outside view of Japanese culture and life, but instead of judging or longing for the American tradition, she whole heartedly embraces her new world and seeks to learn as much about life, love, heartache and overcoming as she possibly can in twelve months.
This is definite must read for anyone who has lived abroad or who simply wants to be transported to a new and exciting land!
This book made me feel so many emotions, it was so relatable, and I actually learned some Japanese. The way it is written is so personal and you get sucked into her life, I've never actually cried over a book before until I read this. I wish more people read this book and I'm going to advertise this on my blog although its not very popular... but she deserves more readers for this masterpiece. Read this book!
When I first started this book, I almost quit reading it. I simply just do not care to drink, nor do I like drunk people! And, Susan LOVES to get drunk! However, I persevered, and I can honestly say I openly wept at the end. I started to find the hilarity in her writing, but also her deep love of her friends and, funnily, her balcony. I finished the book at 2 a.m. and it took me another hour to fall asleep, as the tears just came...not only for her story, but because I felt like I had lost a friend when the book was done.
This is a good and very funny but bittersweet introduction to Japanese culture and language, with heart, humor and humanity (including, in the spirit of education, repetitive use of Japanese words). The funniest depictions are of her nontraditional students and her roommates. I inferred that the author's Canadian roommate, a masculine tatted-up woman who had frequent affairs with married men, cared about her in spite of lacking boundaries and simply being insufferable.
I enjoyed this story very much except for the repetitive accounts of ESL-staff get togethers in bars. It's impossible to make stories of bar camaraderie interesting to readers who were not there more than once or twice. There is sufficient heft to the book that much of this could be edited out. For such a young author (about 30 at the time of the story), the repeated accounts of blackouts after drinking--even after just drinking a little--are troubling.
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