I'm an exchange student in Japan this semester and I feel like everything has been quit disappointing. I've been studing japanese for two years in my home university in France, it was always my goal to study in japan for my third year but the university I was affected to in Japan left me pretty dissapointed. I thought I would make friends from Japan and other countries but I end up talking almost only in french bc we are 10 exchange students from my home university and we ended up in the same class with no other students. There is also chinese exchange students here but they only talk together in chinese, and are in a different class than ours.
I'm in the liberal art department of my university which is pretty small, and other japanese students don't really care about us anyway. The courses are also not really interesting, or too easy for our japanese level so I skip class a lot and end up just laying in bed.
So the thing is, after 3 months here I never felt so lonely, I feel like I can't meet new people, and I feel like the other french student don't like me so much, as they do stuff together without inviting me or don't care about my birthday (while for other people they're making big plans for theirs). The more time goes the less I can bear them as I spent all my weekdays with them, I just end up noticing more and more of their flaw while feeling pretty transparent to them.
I'm feeling sad because everything seems pretty boring alone, and I feel like I failed one of my goals, so my self esteem is pretty low.
I just want to go back to France where my friends are but I would probably miss the only opportunity I will have in my life to live in Japan (even just for a few months).
I know I should meet new people but as an introvert it's really hard and because I'm leaving Japan in only two months I know I wouldn't be able to tie real friendship.
Sorry for kinda venting, I just want some advice from people who maybe felt like me, also sorry for any grammar mistakes…
by niaaados