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It's been a while, hasn't it? I'm sorry.
After over a month of computer drama, I started to run out of blogging steam. When you combine that with the fact that life is starting to feel very normal, you get a lack of entries. My computer is back now though.
Not much has changed. I'm still doing awesome things, having ridiculous conversations, and meeting interesting people. Good things still happen, bad things still happen, and boring things still happen. I'd say the major changes are that 1) I'm closer to some people in neighboring towns than before, 2) after 4 months of stress, culture shock hijacks my day sometimes, and 3) my Japanese is better.
After so much time on a Japanese computer, I'm having to remind myself that the apostrophe key is next to the pinky finger and not shift-7. Though to do the Japanese keyboard justice, it makes sense because they don't use apostrophe much and in that respect the @ key is much more appropriately placed for today's technological world.
The first major holiday at home, Halloween, has passed and I ached but I survived. Thanksgiving might be rough, but I'm going to keep busy, and I'll be home for Christmas so that's like a goading carrot. I'll be home before I know it, there's only 5 weeks left and I have a lot to do before then.
I've been spending a lot of time making comparisons lately because it's the only way for me to wrap my mind around my life. In the time I've been in Japan, 2 seasons have passed. A friend of mine has completed a full semester of study abroad. I've finished 2 seasons of the Big Bang Theory. One of my cousins, who announced her pregnancy shortly before I graduated, will have a baby who will breathe U.S. air before I will. I've popped 2 bike tires. I've reread nearly two textbooks from my Japanese class at UW and completed 1/4 of a correspondence course through JET.
I have not, however, used all the soap left over from my predecessor, who hoarded beauty products like no other (though she never used).
After over a month of computer drama, I started to run out of blogging steam. When you combine that with the fact that life is starting to feel very normal, you get a lack of entries. My computer is back now though.
Not much has changed. I'm still doing awesome things, having ridiculous conversations, and meeting interesting people. Good things still happen, bad things still happen, and boring things still happen. I'd say the major changes are that 1) I'm closer to some people in neighboring towns than before, 2) after 4 months of stress, culture shock hijacks my day sometimes, and 3) my Japanese is better.
After so much time on a Japanese computer, I'm having to remind myself that the apostrophe key is next to the pinky finger and not shift-7. Though to do the Japanese keyboard justice, it makes sense because they don't use apostrophe much and in that respect the @ key is much more appropriately placed for today's technological world.
The first major holiday at home, Halloween, has passed and I ached but I survived. Thanksgiving might be rough, but I'm going to keep busy, and I'll be home for Christmas so that's like a goading carrot. I'll be home before I know it, there's only 5 weeks left and I have a lot to do before then.
I've been spending a lot of time making comparisons lately because it's the only way for me to wrap my mind around my life. In the time I've been in Japan, 2 seasons have passed. A friend of mine has completed a full semester of study abroad. I've finished 2 seasons of the Big Bang Theory. One of my cousins, who announced her pregnancy shortly before I graduated, will have a baby who will breathe U.S. air before I will. I've popped 2 bike tires. I've reread nearly two textbooks from my Japanese class at UW and completed 1/4 of a correspondence course through JET.
I have not, however, used all the soap left over from my predecessor, who hoarded beauty products like no other (though she never used).
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