Thank you! It was a really fun experience.

The Russians were less comfortable with English, much less so than with Japanese. I am a native English speaker.

Yes, in Japan.

I asked a Japanese friend of mine what the significance of October 1st was with regards to this video; she said that there is nothing special about that date.

As much as I prefer other distributions over it, I am grateful for everything that Ubuntu has done to grow the Linux userbase.