What was your first part-time job? My daughter started her first part-time job yesterday. That made me remember about my first part-time job.
I worked at a fried chicken restaurant when I was 17 years old. It was my first summer after graduating from high school. It was a pretty boring job, but one thing about it was interesting. My manager was a Japanese woman. She was the first Japanese person I ever met in my life!
He name was Rika, and she was married to an American man and lived in my town. I think she was in her 30's at that time. She spoke English very well, but I could hear her Japanese accent. I thought it was cute. If I'm remembering correctly, she was from Nara. She showed me a photo of her mother in Japan. She also showed me Japanese stamps and coins. It all seemed so exotic to me--very far away from my small town in Texas.
I had no idea at that time that I would live in Japan for many years. I had never even imagined that in my future. I just thought it was interesting to meet someone from a different country.
But my first part-time job was also my first direct contact with Japan, via Rika.