Asahi, Japan has a gym called Bang Fitness. What happens when you want to stay fit, but don't have the vocabulary to communicate that with the gym staff? What about understanding the gym contract written in a foreign language...though I was the foreigner? It's a tough one. It requires that both me and the local staff push into the Path Beyond in an effort to sort things out. The JET Programme has countless stories, but this is one that was a bit of a curveball for me. Of course it's not unique to the JET, any world traveler or a person on a journey can encounter similar situations. 

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