Before I moved to Japan, I worked at a community college in Iowa as a Japanese Student Advisor for an exchange group of Japanese college students from Tokyo. We took a weekend trip to Chicago and I showed them many of the tourist sites. After moving to Japan, I was training for a corporation in Osaka when one of my students approached me and handed me a magazine saying, \u201cTeacher, isn\u2019t that you in the picture?\u201d I stood there frozen as I saw a picture of my Japanese exchange students and I taken in Chicago. It was unbelievable\u2014it was in a Japanese magazine called \u201cEgg.\u201d There it was\u2014a full page ad, with me in it, advertising their college in Tokyo! I never dreamed I\u2019d be in a Japanese magazine for teens called \u201cEgg!\u201d I guess you never know where your photos might end up! Of course, if my student hadn\u2019t brought it to my attention, I probably never would\u2018ve known my photo was in an ad in \u201cEgg.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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