Cathing You Up

Get in the spirit! I found Dobby at the store in Japan!! Also Harry Potter was delivered to me and I am halfway through it. NO SPOILING OR I WILL HATE YOU.


Since the last time I have written there has been so much that has happened. I have just been so tired when I walk in the door at night. I drop my bags in the floor, check email, and head straight to the bed. Here is the first of a few posts that will catch you up on my life here in Japan.

After the summer festival, I went home. I felt better from the migraine but I still didn’t feel great. I think my body was trying to tell me to slow down and take a rest, but it didn’t register in my brain. I was still on that high from being in a new place. I lost it that night. I just cried and cried. Casey received the phone call. It was probably about 8pm here Saturday but 6am in Alabama. I was like, “WAKE UP!! I NEED TO COME HOME!!” Looking back on it, I laugh and laugh. She advised me to go to sleep and it would be better once the other teacher arrived in a week. Right now I was just lonely.

Great advice! I am so glad that I didn’t try to truck it to the airport (hours away, mind you). The next day I slept late and then Clo called and asked if I wanted to eat lunch. I went and then she took me downtown and we found America by way of GAP and Starbucks. It’s amazing what a little retail therapy can do for you! Since that day, I have hung out with Clo everyday. It has been so nice to find someone who knows what it is like to be in a new place and knowing no one.

Over the next week I taught everyday and did lessons. The rainy season was still going on…rain all day, a nice steady drizzle. It was enough to depress anyone who walked outside. I needed SUN!!! Tuesday morning, I woke up and went to the train station. When one of the teachers picked me up she told me that it was over, no more rainy season! I was so happy! Since then it has been like an Alabama summer…with more humidity (if you can imagine). And the Japanese don’t seem to sweat! They don’t use air much and I am DYING, just about to pass out from the heat, and they are running around (literally) in the hot sun. I don’t know what the deal is.

Let’s seem, my plans from the last week and a half have been…Monday: teach and sleep; Tuesday: teach and sleep; Wednesday: teach and then I went to downtown Okayama and then to Kurashiki; Thursday: teach and sleep; Friday: teach and hang out at home with Clo; Saturday: go to Nakacho and then to Futaba Summer Festival then Poker night in Shin Kurashiki; Sunday: go to down town Okayama shopping; Monday: teach and Tara came to Japan; Tuesday: teach and went to city office to pick up my foreigner card; Wednesday (today): teach and LONG nap!!

I hope everyone is doing well at home. I miss you all. PLEASE email me and let me know what is going on!

Amanda