Language Tutor & the Most Dangerous City in Japan

So I’ve gotten a language Tutor to supplement my Japanese classes because it’s really just moving too slowly. In the month and one week that I’ve been here, I’ve learned how to ask and tell what time it is, I can talk about how much something costs, and I can tell people what city and country I’m from (and only if they use the one sentence structure we practiced in class). So the last two weeks, I’ve been meeting twice a week with Ai-chan who also has studied abroad in Germany for a year and is very interested in international students and languages. We do tandem lessons with Elena and Tibor who are from Germany and we teach her English and German and in exchange she teaches us Japanese. I learn tons every meeting and somehow our four hour sessions seem like nothing cause they’re still very casual. I’ve learned certain things I’ve been saying make me sound more feminine than I would like to express and I think there’s a hope of me actually learning some Japanese here with her help. Ai-chan also teaches me interesting facts and stories that I could not get from anywhere else. She tells me that the sweet city that I live in Fukuoka has in fact the highest crime rate in Japan. I’ve talked to many people who have praised Fukuoka for being a wonderfully safe city to live in and I was pretty shocked to hear this from Ai. She tells me of the time she had her bike stolen from her house. She was more shocked that it happened then angry, and about four days later, the perpetrator having gotten away with the crime already for some unknown reason returned her bike to her. I think even the most dangerous city in Japan is still ten times safer than a night on the town in LA so I think it will be okay.