To guide someone who travel in Japan

In my free time, I sometimes guide foreign travelers who contacted me via the Internet.

I started this interesting hobby about 1 year ago.

The first website I registered with was Hi Everywhere!

Untill now, I have guided or just had dinner together with many people who were from America, Singapore, Peru, Sri Lanka,England, Bhutan and so on.

It was a very exciting experience, but I stopped it while my mental condition was not good.

About 2 weeks ago, I restarted doing this interesting hobby.

Another Singaporean couple contacted me via Hi Everywhere!

I invited them to my house to eat lunch together after we had exchanged emails several times.( I think it ’s better to exchange emails and get to know each other’s personalities before meeting )

Actually, I had made some mistakes in the past by meeting someone too quickly.

At first, I volunteered to guide them, as I just thought that I wanted to speak English and enjoy exchanging cultures with them.

So I didn’t think about their personalities very much and what they wanted me to do for them.

Some guys think that  Hi Everywhere! is a dating site. It is stupid!

That’s why I became to think the most important thing for me when volunteering to guide them( I don’t know other people’s thinking ) is to treat them like my friends.

I need not only exchange cultures, but also become friends with them.

Several months ago, my favorite friend, a Japanese American , recommended another website which is called CouchSurfing.

I think CouchSurfing is more useful than Hi Everywhere!

Around at the end of winter, some people contacted me via CouchSurfing .

And last week I met a guy who was from Finland.

We exchanged emails several times and discussed some topics.

He was a very kind, gentle guy! So I was very happy to see him.

Later I checked other users’ comments about CouchSurfing.

I guess the user quality of this website is good, specially for women to meet men via the Internet is dangerous.

I’ll write the details of my new experiences of guiding new people in the next article.