After we came back from Nikko we met up with another group of people from Kansai Gaidai. I had never really hung out with any of them, but they were all very nice people and I knew them from around school...oh yeah, and they were all SPANISH! Everyone except this one guy was from a Spanish-speaking country...Ecuador, Columbia, Mexico, Chile. The only problem with that was that they spoke in Spanish all the time. I studied Spanish in high-school but there was no way I could understand everything they said. Michael at least knew some more Spanish because of his background, but I found it very difficult and at times frustrating not being able to understand what they were talking about. Of course they didn't speak in Spanish the entire time, they would sometimes use English,
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