"It is. Very different, like I said. But I did enjoy myself there, even if it was very lonely sometimes. I wasn't the only student at my school for whom English was a second language, but I was the only Japanese student."

She asks where we're heading next and I grin at her and make a motion with both my head and one hand, stepping away from the shrine and angling us towards the shopping districts. "I thought I would pick up a few things I know niichan has forgotten, or things he didn't think he'd need but I know better. At the grocery," I elaborate.