But discovering that I was indeed an expat and not a Japanese or somehow still completely American was a liberating experience
. When one is an oddball, what's the point of pretending otherwise? Now I'm free to prefer my native language, to look at to foreign lands for other expats in the hopes of maybe doing business someday, and a sort of adventurous feeling that the world is my oyster has overtaken me (where I will go with that I have no idea). I rather enjoy being an expat now, and if you're not an expat, and oddball odds are that you're not, I'm sure it must be very difficult indeed to relate.