I apologize for not updating the internet on my life. I will attempt to do better, I swear!!! This is a quick rundown of the past 6 months. :)
September - road trip for Silver week with Sa-rah. Nagasaki, Fukuoka, Oita, Beppu, Kag city
October- went to Yakushima, Kagoshima ( an island south of kagoshima) And bought a surf board. Necessary.
November - saved money.
December - for winter vacation ... Kobe to see Sa-rah, Osaka, Kyoto, Nara, Himeji and Korea (Busan and Seoul)
January - NOW! :)
My schools are awesome.. life is great. I love Japan and the Japanese people. Everyday I am thankful that I'm here. It's so amazing. My kids play with boxcutters in class... it's normal.. and ok. Every day, 6 times a day, we do "aisatsu" "greetings" ... and we bow to each other to start and finish class.
At 10:00am everyday Adel Weiss plays on the loud speakers throughout the city for everyone to stop and have 15 min of tea time. A different song plays at 3:30pm for tea time.
I sleep and sit on the floor in my apartment. I have a heated table that keeps me warm while I watch TV.
My friends here are great. James is my kooky British pal who lives about an hour away. We actually met on a random website in June and started emailing each other because we both knew we would be in Kagoshima together. Pretty cool eh? Allen lives on the other peninsula but comes over here often. He just got a Japanese boyfriend... so cute. I guess life is to short. Al-lee and Cassie are my Shibushi babes. They are amazing but I never see them. Cassie has her American boyfriend, Chris, with her and Al-lee has a Japanese boyfriend named Takashi now. I mainly keep to myself during the week. I have an amazing Japanese friend, Miki, who lives with her husband in Kanoya (about 30 min west of Shibushi). I meet her once a week to gossip... which is a wonderful dose of reality. :) She's a 3rd grade Elementary school teacher but her English is soooo amazing. She's one of my favs. Im actually meeting her twice next week. Once to study some Japanese and again to have a small nabe dinner with some Korean spices I bought her. :) yay!
I have another friend who lives fairly close.. his name is Cody - pretty freakin cool. If I ever want to do nothing with someone and just hang out.. he's the best person for that I do believe. We have very similar personalities. I think he could make me a more creative person. I enjoy him.
I live on the beach.
I can't wait for summer again but the cool weather is nice. I started running again. I love the feeling it gives you. It definitely sucks for the first 10 minutes or so but after that you just get in a pace and it's really beautiful. I feel wonderful afterwards. I entered a 5k at the beginning of March :) First time ever! I'll be running with Keith and Andy- the other two 5th year ALT's in my office. They're not leaving me hanging yay! I'm pumped.
Kori, my friend Terri's daughter, is coming to visit the first full week of April! YAY! I'm not really sure what we'll do but I'm thinking of going to the awesome shrine in the water in Hiroshima. Sounds pretty amazing eh?! Also thinking of going back to Kyoto to see some incredible temples and shrines. There one shrine where you walk up the side of this mountain and it's like a maze... I so want to do that! Anyway... we'll see.
RIght now I am saving some dollas.
My mom is coming in late April and staying until May 11th. YAY! I'm thinking about booking us a vacation to Okinawa. We both love the beach soooooo much so I think it'll be a great vacation. :)
Hopefully I'll update more later :) Japan is spectacular. My life is so cool.
October- went to Yakushima, Kagoshima ( an island south of kagoshima) And bought a surf board. Necessary.
November - saved money.
December - for winter vacation ... Kobe to see Sa-rah, Osaka, Kyoto, Nara, Himeji and Korea (Busan and Seoul)
January - NOW! :)
My schools are awesome.. life is great. I love Japan and the Japanese people. Everyday I am thankful that I'm here. It's so amazing. My kids play with boxcutters in class... it's normal.. and ok. Every day, 6 times a day, we do "aisatsu" "greetings" ... and we bow to each other to start and finish class.
At 10:00am everyday Adel Weiss plays on the loud speakers throughout the city for everyone to stop and have 15 min of tea time. A different song plays at 3:30pm for tea time.
I sleep and sit on the floor in my apartment. I have a heated table that keeps me warm while I watch TV.
My friends here are great. James is my kooky British pal who lives about an hour away. We actually met on a random website in June and started emailing each other because we both knew we would be in Kagoshima together. Pretty cool eh? Allen lives on the other peninsula but comes over here often. He just got a Japanese boyfriend... so cute. I guess life is to short. Al-lee and Cassie are my Shibushi babes. They are amazing but I never see them. Cassie has her American boyfriend, Chris, with her and Al-lee has a Japanese boyfriend named Takashi now. I mainly keep to myself during the week. I have an amazing Japanese friend, Miki, who lives with her husband in Kanoya (about 30 min west of Shibushi). I meet her once a week to gossip... which is a wonderful dose of reality. :) She's a 3rd grade Elementary school teacher but her English is soooo amazing. She's one of my favs. Im actually meeting her twice next week. Once to study some Japanese and again to have a small nabe dinner with some Korean spices I bought her. :) yay!
I have another friend who lives fairly close.. his name is Cody - pretty freakin cool. If I ever want to do nothing with someone and just hang out.. he's the best person for that I do believe. We have very similar personalities. I think he could make me a more creative person. I enjoy him.
I live on the beach.
I can't wait for summer again but the cool weather is nice. I started running again. I love the feeling it gives you. It definitely sucks for the first 10 minutes or so but after that you just get in a pace and it's really beautiful. I feel wonderful afterwards. I entered a 5k at the beginning of March :) First time ever! I'll be running with Keith and Andy- the other two 5th year ALT's in my office. They're not leaving me hanging yay! I'm pumped.
Kori, my friend Terri's daughter, is coming to visit the first full week of April! YAY! I'm not really sure what we'll do but I'm thinking of going to the awesome shrine in the water in Hiroshima. Sounds pretty amazing eh?! Also thinking of going back to Kyoto to see some incredible temples and shrines. There one shrine where you walk up the side of this mountain and it's like a maze... I so want to do that! Anyway... we'll see.
RIght now I am saving some dollas.
My mom is coming in late April and staying until May 11th. YAY! I'm thinking about booking us a vacation to Okinawa. We both love the beach soooooo much so I think it'll be a great vacation. :)
Hopefully I'll update more later :) Japan is spectacular. My life is so cool.
