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For someone who’s never bothered to think metric, switching from liters to gallons isn’t easy but the liter of gas that costs 100 yen in Japan works out to more than $2 a gallon here. (I think,)
Minoru became part of the Experiment in International Living’s exchange program because he wanted an opportunity to perfect his English (though, like most foreigners who’ve studied the language, his grammar is better than that used by 50 percent of the native born Americans).
“Most of my knowledge of English has been through books. I wanted the practical experience of living in an American atmosphere,” he explained.
Thanks to the international flavor of the furnishings in the Birds’
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