There's roughly 75 days now until I go back to the states for good. Time is winding down. I've decided to try and take a week off near the end of June to go somewhere interesting, but I'm not sure where to go. I'm also sure that I'll be traveling alone, and I'm not a big fan of that but I really feel I need to go somewhere so I don't waste my remaining time. Right now I'm thinking of Okinawa and Osaka. Plane tickets would be around $350 in total I think... not sure yet.
I'm not really sure what to write here anymore. My life has been pretty boring actually. My shoulder still hasn't healed up enough to play any kind of sport yet. The 3rd years as retiring from their club activities I believe at the end of this month, so while my shoulder still probably won't be healed by then, I'll probably try and play a bit with them since it'll be the last time I can.
I also really want to get to Matsushima. Maybe in a week or two...
つまんない (tsumaranai) dull; boring
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Friday, May 9, 2014
My Car, Shoulder Still Injured, 3 Years in Japan
Finally managed to get those postcards sent off to Diana and Chiem, a year after saying I'd send them.
I went in the other day to ask about options for my car for the last 2 months. The insurance is due in a month and it's going to be at the very least, $700 and likely more because I know it has some problems I've been ignoring for the past few months now. I just want to rent a car or lease one for the last 2 months as $700 at the very least is too much for a car for that time. I love you Maria, but your time has come! She's been a good car for 3 years though, no major problems even though she only cost me a grand.
I was taking my shirt off one day about 3 days ago and seemed to slightly re-injure my shoulder. Now I can't walk with my arm down or it feels like it'll fall out again. I need to go buy a splint for it I think. Doing that after school. It sucks because it doesn't feel like it got any better after those 3 days either. I don't want surgery...
3 years was a good amount of time to be here. A while after I get home I'll be able to look back at this experience with fond memories and stories, but I'm definitely not as enamored with this place as I used to be. Which is good in a sense as it's making it easier to go home. I'm not going to get home and wish so much that I had stayed another year. It's almost weird thinking that almost 3 years has passed and that I have less than 3 months left in Japan. Definitely when people get all otaku crazy about Japan they only see the beautiful outside of it, but like sakura, it doesn't last long, and once you're here for a while you start to see all of what's wrong with the country. I still love it and will come back for traveling and such, but I couldn't live here forever. It's hard to live in a country that thinks work is more important than family and that bases a lot of its societal rules off of lying. It's also hard to be an Asian American male here :)
車【くるま】 (kuruma) car
I went in the other day to ask about options for my car for the last 2 months. The insurance is due in a month and it's going to be at the very least, $700 and likely more because I know it has some problems I've been ignoring for the past few months now. I just want to rent a car or lease one for the last 2 months as $700 at the very least is too much for a car for that time. I love you Maria, but your time has come! She's been a good car for 3 years though, no major problems even though she only cost me a grand.
I was taking my shirt off one day about 3 days ago and seemed to slightly re-injure my shoulder. Now I can't walk with my arm down or it feels like it'll fall out again. I need to go buy a splint for it I think. Doing that after school. It sucks because it doesn't feel like it got any better after those 3 days either. I don't want surgery...
3 years was a good amount of time to be here. A while after I get home I'll be able to look back at this experience with fond memories and stories, but I'm definitely not as enamored with this place as I used to be. Which is good in a sense as it's making it easier to go home. I'm not going to get home and wish so much that I had stayed another year. It's almost weird thinking that almost 3 years has passed and that I have less than 3 months left in Japan. Definitely when people get all otaku crazy about Japan they only see the beautiful outside of it, but like sakura, it doesn't last long, and once you're here for a while you start to see all of what's wrong with the country. I still love it and will come back for traveling and such, but I couldn't live here forever. It's hard to live in a country that thinks work is more important than family and that bases a lot of its societal rules off of lying. It's also hard to be an Asian American male here :)
車【くるま】 (kuruma) car
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