In the city of Fujisawa, Japan, lives a woman named Atsuko Saeki When she was a teenager, she
1
of going to the United States. Most of what she knew about American
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was from the textbooks she had read. "I had a
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in mind: Daddy watching TV in the living room,
Mummy
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cakes and their teenage daughter off to the cinema with her boyfriend."
Atsuko
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to attend college in California. When she arrived, however, she found it was not her
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world. "People were struggling with problems and often seemed
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," she said. "I felt very alone."
One of her hardest
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was physical education. "We played volleyball." she said.
"The other students were
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it, but I wasn't."
One afternoon, the instructor asked Atsuko to
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the ball to her teammates so they could knock it
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the net—No problem for most people, but it terrified Atsuko. She was afraid of losing face
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she failed.
A young man on her team
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