Depends on the country I believe. I’ve got a refund for my sixth eye surgery a couple of months ago thanks to my insurance.

I started questioning our role in the World War 2 during a history lesson when I was in, like, 4th grade. I’m from Russia.

I’m 0% Japanese and can say that so far, aside from some annoying paperwork, it’s a bliss compared to the countries I used to live in before. Maybe the difference is that I didn’t expect people to truly love me behind their smiles and politeness. Just being friendly (as it is in 99% of cases here for me) is enough, and way above my experience in Europe when people jumped to being rude and sometimes hostile right after hearing my accent after trying to speak local language.

“sorry”. I mainly use English in my daily life and at work for several years now, but cannot make it not sound like “sowy” or roll “r” too much.