Too Late for the Festival
An American Salary Woman in Japan
Paine Rhiannon
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Rhiannon Paine, a technical writer for Hewlett-Packard in Silicon Valley, agreed reluctantly to transfer to their Tokyo branch. She had no idea what she was in for, and neither did her Japanese colleagues. While they coped with her social gaffes, like arriving late to work and blowing her nose in public, Paine struggled with Japanese food––"deviant sea-creatures on rice"––and with the Japanese language, which kept tripping her up with new verb tenses.
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With the money she saved in Japan, Rhiannon Paine made a down payment on a house in Healdsburg, California, where she has lived ever since. Catch up with her at www. rhiannonpaine.com (see the Festival page for photos) and chat with her on Twitter, where she is @calbion.
