This morning something quite strange happened. It was the first day of my going to the Junior High School, so I had not slept well due to being a little stressed out. At 6:30 in the morning, my doorbell rang. Scared half to death out of my sleep, I grabbed my clock, wondering if I had somehow slept past my alarm. Seeing that this was not the case, I got up and saw from my bedroom door a couple large Japanese men dressed all in black standing at my kitchen window. I must say, this did not help my nerves one bit. Throwing on some pants and cursing myself for wearing my Japanese "dragon" shirt to bed (laughingly told myself the night before that no one would SEE me, after all), I hurried to the door. Actually, there were 3 large men in black uniform, looking rather like SWAT. However, very quickly, a very unthreatening beaurocrat-type man popped out from behind the door. He showed me his badge (kay, freaking out now) and then proceded to explain in Japanese that he was from immigration. He took my passport and a women appeared out from nowhere and came into my kitchen, explaining it was a "visa check" and couldn't she just look around my apartment? ...
I (obviously) don't have a lot of experience with Japanese government of any type, but an unannounced 6:30AM visit seemed pretty proactive to me... I think I must have been a very suspicious personage! Perhaps my neighbors had called about the strange American that had suddenly appeared!
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wah... scary.
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