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 :)

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