Pada penghujung 1990-an, saya mewarisi jaket Pedalaman Australia hitam yang mahal daripada pelajar homestay Jepun Hirotada, yang tinggal di rumah saya di Pulau Lulu selama lima tahun. Dia pergi ke kolej untuk belajar bahasa Inggeris. Memang sukar bagi kebanyakan orang Jepun untuk belajar bahasa Inggeris, kerana struktur dan penggunaannya sangat berbeza. Mereka jarang berkawan dengan Inggeris asli, kerana budaya yang sama sekali berbeza.
In the late 1990s, I inherited an expensive black Australian Outback jacket from a slightly corpulent homestay Japanese student Hirotada, who stayed in my home on Lulu Island for five years. He was going to a college to learn English. It is really difficult for most Japanese to learn English, because the structure and usage are so different. They seldom fraternize with native Anglophones, because of an entirely different culture.