Camp Bernie
Saturday, October 5 – Sunday, October 6
Who doesn’t love spending time with just the girls? Let me tell you, I have met some amazing people here and three in particular have some to be my greatest friends while in Japan! It’s so strange…moving to a new continent, knowing no one, missing your friends from home like crazy, and then meeting people who you connect with and become the people you hang out with every weekend!
All of you reading this from home, no, you have NOT been replaced, as a matter of fact, you are here in spirit. The four of us know each other, but we also know each other’s friends from home. I might not have ever met or even talked to them, but I have heard so many stories about these friends of my friends that I feel like I would fit right in and just be part of the Aussie or Canadian gang! J
So on this particular girls night, Meghan, Amy, and I all arrived in Wake on the train. Bernie was waiting for us in her car at the station. We piled in and headed to the grocery store to get food for dinner. Yes-we were going to cook.
The funny thing about all four of us is that we have distinctly different diets and food preferences, yet we can always find somewhere to eat or, in this case, something to eat that we can all agree on and eat. First there’s Bernie who is a vegetarian. Then there’s Amy who is mostly a vegetarian but will eat some chicken. Meghan eats pretty much anything. And then there’s me who is Atkins friendly only these days.
As we troop through the grocery store, each throwing random things into the buggy/cart/trolley (four people from different places and we all call it different names), we all agree on the common meal that we are going to be sharing and we just enjoy each other’s company while we laugh and tell jokes and stories.
Home at last at Camp Bernie’s, we unload the car and get to work in the kitchen. We were all chopping veggies and adding ingredients to make vegetarian chili (chicken to be added in to ours later!). We were laughing and dancing as we sang to the radio. The phone rang and we all talked to Bernie’s Aussie friends from home.
Eventually dinner was ready so we set the table and ate together, telling more stories from our week. It was like having a little family, all sitting together over supper. Isn’t that cute? Can’t you just picture it?
After dinner we had to initiate Amy into the club for people who had seen Top Gun. I am the worst about not ever seeing some of the staple movies of my youth, but I can at least say that I have seen Top Gun before. We had the best time as we watched and acted out the scenes. Poor Bernie sat at the table listening to the rugby game though and was devastated to hear that her precious Aussie team lost and was not out of the running for the World Cup.
We watched an Australian movie after Top Gun. It was called The Castle. It reminded me a little of Napoleon Dynamite because of the humor. It was terribly funny and we laughed throughout the whole thing. Amy made up for never having seen Top Gun by showing us The Castle.
Afterwards we all passed out only to wake up early the next morning. We had to get up early though because Amy, Bernie, and I were heading off to Lake Biwa to Indian Summer for a music festival.
Saturday, October 5 – Sunday, October 6
Who doesn’t love spending time with just the girls? Let me tell you, I have met some amazing people here and three in particular have some to be my greatest friends while in Japan! It’s so strange…moving to a new continent, knowing no one, missing your friends from home like crazy, and then meeting people who you connect with and become the people you hang out with every weekend!
All of you reading this from home, no, you have NOT been replaced, as a matter of fact, you are here in spirit. The four of us know each other, but we also know each other’s friends from home. I might not have ever met or even talked to them, but I have heard so many stories about these friends of my friends that I feel like I would fit right in and just be part of the Aussie or Canadian gang! J
So on this particular girls night, Meghan, Amy, and I all arrived in Wake on the train. Bernie was waiting for us in her car at the station. We piled in and headed to the grocery store to get food for dinner. Yes-we were going to cook.
The funny thing about all four of us is that we have distinctly different diets and food preferences, yet we can always find somewhere to eat or, in this case, something to eat that we can all agree on and eat. First there’s Bernie who is a vegetarian. Then there’s Amy who is mostly a vegetarian but will eat some chicken. Meghan eats pretty much anything. And then there’s me who is Atkins friendly only these days.
As we troop through the grocery store, each throwing random things into the buggy/cart/trolley (four people from different places and we all call it different names), we all agree on the common meal that we are going to be sharing and we just enjoy each other’s company while we laugh and tell jokes and stories.
Home at last at Camp Bernie’s, we unload the car and get to work in the kitchen. We were all chopping veggies and adding ingredients to make vegetarian chili (chicken to be added in to ours later!). We were laughing and dancing as we sang to the radio. The phone rang and we all talked to Bernie’s Aussie friends from home.
Eventually dinner was ready so we set the table and ate together, telling more stories from our week. It was like having a little family, all sitting together over supper. Isn’t that cute? Can’t you just picture it?
After dinner we had to initiate Amy into the club for people who had seen Top Gun. I am the worst about not ever seeing some of the staple movies of my youth, but I can at least say that I have seen Top Gun before. We had the best time as we watched and acted out the scenes. Poor Bernie sat at the table listening to the rugby game though and was devastated to hear that her precious Aussie team lost and was not out of the running for the World Cup.
We watched an Australian movie after Top Gun. It was called The Castle. It reminded me a little of Napoleon Dynamite because of the humor. It was terribly funny and we laughed throughout the whole thing. Amy made up for never having seen Top Gun by showing us The Castle.
Afterwards we all passed out only to wake up early the next morning. We had to get up early though because Amy, Bernie, and I were heading off to Lake Biwa to Indian Summer for a music festival.
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