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[pyreseer]

[The following is posted under the screen name ShrinelessMaiden and tagged with #venture city and #crookston academy:]

My tutor said I should make a blog to practice my written English in so I have made this. I have never made a blog before so I hope I am doing it right. Also I hope my English here is good. I will need it to be for when I start classes next week.

Is it normal for Western high schools to give you ESP tests?

Comments

[pyreseer]

Azabu Juban.

That's in Tokyo.

[hinavelous]

Oh! I'm from Tokyo as well, what a coincidence. Are you here on an exchange program?

[pyreseer]

No. My father decided to send me to America for high school.

[hinavelous]

...Oh. Well are you at least enjoying Venture City...?

[pyreseer]

It's all right. I miss Tokyo.

[hinavelous]

Yeah. It certainly isn't home.

[pyreseer]

Did you know that the nearest jinja is in Washington State? And the trains aren't very good in this country. I don't know if I could get there and back on a weekend.

[hinavelous]

Ah... I didn't. I suppose Shinto isn't exactly practiced very much here, is it.

[pyreseer]

No. It's really not.

I wish Papa had sent me to Hawaii for school, not California. Most of the American ones are there. The only other one on the mainland is in Colorado, which I understand is even farther probably.

[hinavelous]

Maybe you could visit on a school break. It's unfortunate that religions are so vastly different here, you'd think there would at least be places of worship for all universally, with as much of a melting pot as the United States is famed to be.

[pyreseer]

I hope I can. It seems like it's going to be very long until we have a break, though. But maybe I can get my brother to help. He owes me.

[hinavelous]

That's a great idea! Family should help each other out. Is your brother here in Venture City as well?

[pyreseer]

Probably.

[hinavelous]

Probably...? Do you not know where he is?

[pyreseer]

He travels around and he doesn't really tell people where he's going. He was here before, though. I think maybe he's staying with someone here? I have his phone number now, though, if I really want to talk to him.

[hinavelous]

Ah, a traveler. I've worked with a few of that sort before! I guess it's hard to tie them down when they're so used to moving around so much. I wish I were brave enough for that sort of lifestyle myself.

[pyreseer]

I think it's an irresponsible sort of life. What about the people they leave behind?

[hinavelous]

My brother has to travel for his work sometimes. It can't always be helped, I think.

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[pyreseer]

But my brother doesn't have a job! He's a NEET. Maybe not a... what do Americans call ひきこもり? But a NEET anyway.

[hinavelous]

Ah, well that does present a problem... Have you tried talking to him about it?

[pyreseer]

Not really. [She's still too mad at him.]