This is a locked chapterSweet Trip: The Situation with the Host Family
About This Chapter
"Sweet trip, sweet trip" is the title of this chapter. It's about a girl who's on a trip to Australia with her family. She's worried about how she's going to get back to her family in Australia, and she wants to know how to deal with people who don't speak her native language. The narrator tells her to go to Australia, where she'll find a host family who will take her in for a summer break. She tells the girl to look around and see how friendly the foreigners are. The girl is nervous, but the narrator reassures her by pointing out that they're eating in a Japanese restaurant and that the food is studying about Japan right now. He tells her that it's funny that the girl is so nervous, because he doesn't understand the language, but he'll talk to her later. He asks the girl if she has "social anxiety" , and the girl says she does, but that she'd rather not talk about it because it'll make her nervous. She asks if he's trying to be mean, and he says he was just trying to get a little bit of sleep. He says that it was tough the night before because he wasn't sure how to explain himself in English, but now that he has a better look at the room, he can see that the room isn't so bad after all. He wonders if the girl's nervous because someone has finally come to talk to him, but she says she didn't know who it was. He wants to go back to the place where Lucas is staying, but instead, he asks her to look at him. She says she can't
This is a locked chapterSweet Trip: The Situation with the Host Family
About This Chapter
"Sweet trip, sweet trip" is the title of this chapter. It's about a girl who's on a trip to Australia with her family. She's worried about how she's going to get back to her family in Australia, and she wants to know how to deal with people who don't speak her native language. The narrator tells her to go to Australia, where she'll find a host family who will take her in for a summer break. She tells the girl to look around and see how friendly the foreigners are. The girl is nervous, but the narrator reassures her by pointing out that they're eating in a Japanese restaurant and that the food is studying about Japan right now. He tells her that it's funny that the girl is so nervous, because he doesn't understand the language, but he'll talk to her later. He asks the girl if she has "social anxiety" , and the girl says she does, but that she'd rather not talk about it because it'll make her nervous. She asks if he's trying to be mean, and he says he was just trying to get a little bit of sleep. He says that it was tough the night before because he wasn't sure how to explain himself in English, but now that he has a better look at the room, he can see that the room isn't so bad after all. He wonders if the girl's nervous because someone has finally come to talk to him, but she says she didn't know who it was. He wants to go back to the place where Lucas is staying, but instead, he asks her to look at him. She says she can't