I was packing my bags at the supermarket yesterday and a woman came up to me and introduced herself. I thought at first that maybe she knew my predecessor and so wanted to say hi, but a few sentences in I realised she was just a random woman who seemed excited over a fact that a westerner was shopping at her supermarket. Strange but relatively harmless. She spoke a little English and then got to the point.

"I am a Jehovah's witness, I want to visit you"

err... really?

"Yes! You live close?"

umm... fairly close... I guess...

What you've got to picture here is the fact that this woman seemed so happy to see me. Religion isn't really my bag but I didn't really know how to get rid of her? I don't know if maybe she thought because I was a westerner I'd automatically be more interested than my Japanese counterparts? I gave her the group name of my apartment building when she pressed me for it ("I think I know" she said uncertainly; I didn't elaborate) but not my apartment number.

We smiled and said our goodbyes. I left the store quickly.

I'm going to look for her very carefully next time so I know who to avoid.