i apologize for my lack of actual journal entries telling what i’ve been up to, but i’ve been fairly busy, and spending the time in my apartment mainly relaxing (and not wanting to write)
I miss writing prose. My fingertips are itching constantly and my mind is always clicking, creating clever lines but i can never find the time or energy to actually write them down. Whenever i get the overwhelming urge to write its bad timing and i cant get to my computer or a notebook so i write something beautiful in my head and remind myself to remember it, but i never do. I need to stop that. This is the time when i should be writing. I learn a million new things about myself and the world every single day here.
Why is it that bands keep putting out the perfect life soundtracks? When i moved here, tegan and sarah’s the con was the perfect accompanyment to my homesickness and trouble adjusting. Now, Jimmy Eat World’s Chase this light is absolutely perfect. Guaranteed if i wasnt here i would hate it, but i’m telling all my friends in japan, please, put this album on your ipod, go for a bike ride through your neighbourhood and tell me you dont feel something. i promise you. its a damn good album. these bands keep getting in my head and writing the words i cant put to paper. at least they’re making it easier for me.
Last week was awesome. Parent observations really werent bad at all as most of my classes with small kids are mommy and me classes meaning the mom is always there, so they werent any different. the actual observations i had went fine. Wednesday night yui picked me up from work and we went to the mall for some starbucks then went out for a glass of wine at a cute little restaurant near her house. Thursday night was our party night, as i had friday off work. we went for a really nice expensive dinner at this little french/italian restaurant near my work where we drank a delicious chardonney and ate white pizza and pasta (japan is carbsville, even the non-japanese food, somehow, someway i am able to fit into ALL of my old clothes from when i was tiny last summer. shocking, i know, i love you japan) and then after dinner we had a cheese platter!! OH HOW I HAVE MISSED GOOD QUALITY CHEESE IN MY LIFE. it was heaven. We then headed to an izakaya where some awesome japanese business dudes joined us and then paid for our bill. score. the next day i somehow pried myself out of my bed and headed to the mall to do some christmas shopping, not extremely successful. my weekend was spent relaxing, movie watching, visiting my little kanika in nagoya, more christmas shopping, got my flu shot yesterday, cleaned my apartment…
Oh, i got myself the cutest little christmas tree. its just past my waist and its all silver and pink and purple and stupidly girly and i love it. i wish i could hug it, its so adorable. I wanted to buy little white christmas lights for it yesterday but i couldnt read the boxes as to whether they were indoor or outdoor lights and i didnt want to risk setting any sort of fires in my life, so i skipped out on them.
I just finished reading White Oleander and it was one of the best things i have ever read in my life. i know its terribly obvious and cliche to be a girl, at my age, and love that book, and oprah recommends it and all that crap, but seeeeeriously, its amazing. like i have not read a stunning piece of literature like that in ages. i’ve read a ton of woman coming of age stories that try, and could only dream of coming close to what that book achieves. I wanted to highlight every other line so that i could remember them. ..
now i’m starting “Charles Dickens- A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings” because i’m a gigantic nerd and i’ve never read a christmas carol and i wanted a christmas book to read and this was the only thing i could find in the tiny english section at the bookstore in nagoya which is the only bookstore i have found thusfar with actually ANY english section, even though theres a bajillion thousand bookstores in japan. Take note: PLEASE SEND ME BOOKS.
on that note: here are my mailing addresses!
if you are sending me letters or postcards etc. please send to my apartment at:
#202 White Cloud III
Motonomi-Cho, Okazaki
Aichi 444-0063
JAPAN
and for packages (i like packages by the way), please send to my school:
Okazaki Amity
Barakan Takaba 1F
1-3 Honmachi-dori
Okazaki-shi, Aichi 444-0051
JAPAN
oh, and i bought christmas soap from lush and it makes me happy inside.
i need to write in this more often because so much more happens every day, but then i leave it until i have a bunch of things to talk about and then i just graze over everything briefly. I miss all the details. i love the little details. i dont want to forget the little details.
