Journal 8-17
　Hey, everyone! I hope you are having a good summer vacation. I had a good time at the aquarium last weekend and had a fun BBQ at Bampaku park. Only a couple weeks left until school starts again.
　This week my younger sister returned to America. She lived in Ibaraki prefecture for one year and taught English there. Now she is back in Texas and works as a substitute teacher. She said she enjoyed living in Japan and she thought it was a very nice place, but she missed many people and things from America too much. She sometimes felt homesick and wanted to go home.
　Before she came to Japan, my sister had lived in France for half a year and she had lived in Vienna, Austria for one year. She studied French in high school and German in university so she could communicate in France and Austria with no problems.
　When she came to Japan, she had only studied Japanese for one year, and she was working out in the countryside with very few other foreign people. It was difficult for her to communicate, but she did her best. She said one year in Japan was fun, but it was enough for her. My sister is happy she came to Japan, but she is glad to be home now.
　I hope you all are looking forward to school starting soon!

Questions:
1. Have you ever wanted to live somewhere else? Where and why?
2. How long do you want to live there?
3. Do you think you would get homesick? Why or why not?