Hey, guys, welcome back to my channel.

I hope the lighting is okay.

I am trying very hard to find a spot for me to film any of anything.

Honestly, because I haven't, uh, completed the office room.

I have my tea right here, and I have my Christmas tree in the back.

I hope you guys can see it.

It's very beautiful.

Maybe maybe you can't.

I don't know.

So there are a lot of habits.

I'm gonna try to be as brief as possible.

If some of you guys were living in Japan or living somewhere else around the world and you guys can share your habits with me, that would be wonderful.

I'd love to hear about other countries and people who I've also lived abroad and developed some habits and all that stuff.

So please comment down below.

So the first habit that I developed was taking off my shoes.

So taking off your shoes in Japan is a very common thing.

Before you walk into the house automatically just without thinking.

Take off your shoes because if you're in someone's home or you're in a very nice, like Japanese restaurant or space or hotel or something, you just naturally take off your shoes like common etiquette in Japan.

Also, I feel like this habit is very good for me because first of all, a lot of bacteria is carried on shoes.

So if you're wearing your shoes outside and you're wearing your shoes inside as well, it's not good.

It drags a lot of germs into the house, and it makes the carpets dirty and the flooring dirty.

And it doesn't help your posture.

You can have room shoes, which is totally fine.

But honestly, like I just don't feel comfortable in it anymore.

I don't know if anyone else has experienced this when they're in Japan, but I definitely had developed this habit of just not wearing shoes.

I used to actually just walk into my house with shoes, especially when I was a kid in America.

You know, we would go outside and play and we just come in and walk in, and it's just like my host sister when I had her in high school like we would walk in with our shoes and she'd be like, Oh, my gosh, why are you walking inside with your shoes?

She was just so confused.

Another habit I developed is eating more fish.

And some of you guys may think, Well, yeah, Japan is surrounded by water.

It's an island, so naturally you're gonna eat more fish.

And it's true.

Fish is very healthy for you if you're not a vegetarian.

If you're not vegan, Um, I feel like fish is a very good thing to incorporate into your diet.

Has omega threes packed into it has vitamins such as vitamin D and B to fish is rich in calcium and phosphorus.

So it's just all around a good meal toe Have, if you are tired or just need something to pick you up, give you more energy.

I've been eating so many different types of fish.

My favorite fishes Sava, which is mackerel.

I eat it all the time.

It doesn't have as much mercury in it, but salmon is also one of my favorite.

So eat salmon.

I flounder.

I eat mackerel.

I eat all types of other fish that I've never heard of.

Okay, I'm not sure what that is in English, but it's just very good for you.

Like I just love fish and I love the way they cook it here, even though it has the bones in it, it's just ah, hearty meal like it's very good.

This is just amazing.

If you guys come to Japan, you should try some of the many fish, but they have especially sushi.

I'm trying toe lean toward not eating so much raw fish.

I like to eat.

I prefer to eat more cooked or broiled or grilled fish.

The pan is a very patient country.

Japan just loves to stand in long lines, and they're very okay with it.

There's not a lot of complaining.

People stand in lines that are hours long, probably Tokyo Disneyland.

If you ever come here, a lot of people stand in line for popcorn and it'll be miles long and you'll be like why they're the most patient people on the planet.

Even the customer service is very patient.

They are always there to help you and kind and loving.

I feel like as a teacher in Japan, you learn to be more patient with things, so especially When you're teaching small Children, you learn patients, so I've become a lot more patient.

I used to be a very, very impatient person, and I still kind of am.

But I'm a lot better with it now, and I feel like patience is key to living in this country and to working here.

That's just one of the positive habits that I developed.

I care a lot about my appearance now, so when you come to Japan, you'll see lots of people that are dressed up and looking nice.

They look like they're going to a nice dinner.

They look like they're going to work or they look like they're going just out for a casual date.

Everybody is dressed nicely.

You will never see anybody wearing sweatpants, but Jammeh pan their hair tied in a knot.

Everybody, it looks like they're going somewhere.

Even if they're not, you'll see moms at the grocery store wearing the most beautiful clothing, long skirts and cozy sweaters with their hair and braids.

I just like just seeing that makes me feel very embarrassed when I go out and I'm dressed really crappy.

I have not gone out in sweat pants or anything like that since I moved here.

I used to when I was in the state.

You'd never see anybody really wear hoodies here, which is crazy, and they do sell them.

But it's just like you don't really see people wearing them.

There's a lot of fashion trends that are going on that people are trying out and just I just think it's so interesting to see how people dress and how the trends are changing.

And, ah, lot of people are starting to not care what other people think they express themselves.

Some people dress up in like crazy stuff, and it just it's very expressive and very creative.

And I think that's one thing that I really love about Japan walking instead of taking public transportation.

Okay, so I do take trains.

I do have to take trains to Goto work.

But if I had the option to walk and it was only about 30 minutes of a walk, I will take that walk because first and foremost trains they're usually very packed.

It's very hard to move in them, especially at certain hours of the day.

Um, taking a bus can also be very packed and slow walking is just sometimes generally faster.

There's a lot of things that are close together.

A lot of places, they're close together and you just should walk.

And there's so much to see.

I love exploring.

I love being outside.

I love walking from station to station just to see what they have and what's going on.

There's lots of cash phase and cool stuff, especially in Tokyo.

I really, really love it.

Yeah, I just prefer to walk more.

I even walk to the station from my apartment, which is literally, like 12 minutes of a walk.

It seems long American standard.

If you were in America or something, if I were in America, I used to be like parking, maybe five minutes walk away and I would complain.

But now I'm just like when I go home and be park 15 minutes away.

I'm like, Cool, let's walk and I do not care anymore.

So I definitely walk more to places than I did before, and that's a habit that I've developed that's also very healthy.

Okay, this is a very common one.

I'm sure a lot of people that live here know this, but like bowing and thanks to me mustn't semi Muhsin Semi Muhsin means Excuse me so basically or sorry, but when you bump into somebody, you'll say to me, Muhsin, or if you are in the way, you'll say Ohsumi, Muhsin.

Or, if you're late, you'll say Sammy Muhsin.

Or if you wanna ask a question, you'll say soon we mustn't and bow And those things have just grown on me to the point where when I go back to the States, I have that habit of like bowing or saying Sumi mustn't on accident or Oh, sorry, sorry, I apologize a lot.

So it's just kind of developed into this kind of bad habit.

I feel I'm not sure if, like semi must end is a very good habit.

It's a very polite habit.

Maybe so, but I think people say a little bit too much and it's kind of grown on me as well.

And my fiance notices that I apologize a lot more, and I think it's because I live here.

E take a lot more baths now, at night.

I am so, so, so relaxed and I love taking bath.

All the toxins come out of my body.

I use EPPS and salt or Himalayan salt, magnesium salt to draw out the toxins in my body a couple times a week or once a week.

And then I also use this own Zen like they have a lot of bath salt or bombs that are like from Hot Springs air used in hot springs.

And I love that.

I'll have to make another video about the collections that they have here in Japan and what the benefits are of those things, because taking taking about everyone should take a bath.

It's very meditative.

It's very relaxing.

It draws out the toxins.

It's just it helps you sleep better.

It's so good for you.

I tend to listen to podcasts or audiobooks while I'm taking a bath sometimes.

So, yeah, it's just been a very relaxing time in my day, and it it's only about 20 minutes out of your day, so take a bath.

Okay, this is another weird habit that I developed, but pointing at yourself whenever you say, like, can you look for example, can you give this to me or it's me or something usually point to you like your body.

You don't point to your face.

I think I developed this a lot.

As a teacher.

A lot of kids would do this.

It will be like me or it's me or something, and they'll point to their nose whenever I refer to myself.

I point to my nose now.

I don't know.

It's just a habit I developed.

Now is it?

Is it like that in anyone else's country?

I don't know.

All right, thank you guys, for watching those air.

All the habits that I've developed in Japan, I'm sure there's more that I haven't mentioned or I haven't thought about.

But let me know if you guys live in Japan or live in another country and developed some habits there, or maybe even another city, some slaying or something that you just say more often.

I feel like my accent has kind of gone away a little bit.

It comes out from time to time.

I'm from Michigan, so I have a bit of Michigan accent, so that kind of got lost since I've been living here.

So that's another habit.

Um, habit of speech here.

Yeah.

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