Yesterday when I got on the train in Shibuya, I had a big          
 surprise, and I mean big! There were three sumo wrestlers on the     
 train. I was standing by the door right next to one of them, but I   
didn't recognize him. The other two were sitting behind me. I really  
wanted to turn around and look, to see if I could recognize them, but 
I didn't do it. In fact it was funny because everyone on the train,   
including me, seemed to be trying very hard to look cool and not make 
a big deal about the three wrestlers. But I know we were all really   
excited about it.                                                     
   A lot of Americans in Japan really like sumo. I think one of       
the reasons is that after living here for several years,              
most things become very familiar, and Japan feel more like home       
than like a foreign country. But sumo is different. It keeps its      
foreign flavor somehow and brings back that exciting feeling          
of being in a new country. Whenever I hear the sumo drums beating     
or the referee chanting, or see the huge wrestlers in their bright    
aprons, I think, "Wow! I'm really in Japan," and I feel happy to      
be here. And that was just how I felt on the train yesterday too.     
                                                                      
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