Goodbye Japan!

Trip Start Jun 27, 2009
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

I'm sitting here with my bags packed, apartment mostly cleaned, trash taken out, clothes in piles to be donated, etc...I can't believe my 2 years in Japan is coming to an end! I'm ready for the next thing in my life and am grateful that I had opportunity to have this amazing experience. I couldn't have imagined my life without it right now. I am leaving my small town today, and am headed for the big city - TOKYO!! I will be there for about 2 weeks before I head to Shanghai and then Beijing,China for the Olympics!

Hopefully over the next 2 weeks I will have some time to catch up on past blogs because I haven't been good about writing recently, sorry! Upcoming blogs will include: my trip to India, busy spring, and my Mt.Fuji Climbing Escapades!

Anyways, I will be home in America on August 18th and can't wait to see you all!!!!! I will be teaching Kindergarten at Browne Academy in Alexandria starting August 25th, so I don't have much time to readjust before I get back to the daily grind :) Hopefully the reverse culture shock won't be too hard.

If you're in the D.C. area my friends are throwing a welcome back party for me on August 23rd.
E-mail me for details if you are around and want to come! Everyone is invited :)

I'll leave you with a few things I can think of as I'm writing this...

Things I will miss:
1. my heated toilet seat
2. 7am, waking up to a watch a beautiful sunrise over the pacific ocean from my balcony
3. wandering around the 100 yen store with lily trying to figure out what everything is
4. the amazingly fresh fish at the local conveyor belt sushi shop
5. relaxing in the local hot spring with friends after a long weekend of traveling
6. living so close to the ocean and mountains in a beautiful and peaceful country town

Things I won't miss:
1. traffic on the only road, 2-lane route 42. and not being able to pass old people because the roads are too windy
2. having my food stared at, poked and prodded just because I'm not eating rice
3. getting up early to catch the 7:15am train with tons of high schoolers, again staring at me
4. Japanese inability to be forward and say what they want, express feelings
5. the lack of AC everywhere, especially schools!
6. TEACHING ENGLISH!! haha sorry. it really wasn't for me :(

OK that's all from this end. I need to go shower and catch my train to Tokyo.
See you all very soon!!!
Love, Kate
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