Okinawa local military needs japanese lessons in real life?

a big fat hello to the japanese world! This is a just a regular guy asking for a friend to help with japanese during the time that i am here. I have until february 07 of 2009 until i leave Okinawa and is asking anyone for their help in learning the culture and language by any means possible. Sorry if there is already a thread on this, I'm so sorry! (Gomen nasai!) but i am new to all this and would like to make new friends while i'm here. Sorry for the lack of japanese but i cannot speak unless i'm in person i guess but i'm here to learn so please. Any form of help is much appreciated and thank you for taking the time to look at this regardless how pitifull it is haha. Hope to hear from anyone soon. Just another guy in Okinawa, bye bye!

From the heart of Japan, the Japan Alps, I send you my greetings ! WELCOME to JREF !! I know it's much warmer down there, compared to here, and envy you for that.

Please spend time with us, and get to know us and how the place works, and you'll learn more and more about the culture of Japan, and some Japanese. (of course it'll take some work on your part as well, however....)

I moved this here since it seemed to be much more of an introduction than not...and was definitely out of location there where it had been. I appreciate you understanding on this point. Talk to you later ! MM

Welcome to the forum. There are not a lot of us from Okinawa on here, but I do hope that you find someone.

Thank you DoctorP for the welcoming! It's ok if there aren't many people in Okinawa since there is a whole community here i can learn from
( hopefully ) Thanks again.