In Osaka I went to see the Sky Building in Umeda and Takarazuka, an all female theater. It was a good view, and interesting that a large part of the audience is all women. I ended up losing my camera sometime though, and bought a new one right before going to Okinawa for around $350. I like it, but it doesn't take panorama shots, which I really liked my old camera for.
Okinawa was cool too. I ended up going to one of the smaller islands called Zamamijima for a night. It was a calm little island and I probably should have stayed another night or two. The next day I went to the Churaumi aquarium and that place, well the aquarium itself anyway, is BIG! There were 3 whale sharks and a few really big stingray like things. The next day I had planned on visiting a castle and possibly just enjoying the beach, but I came down with a migraine. Of course, that was the only day that it was sunny. I managed to drag myself out of bed around 3 or 4 and made it to Shuri castle. A cool place, but not sure it was worth it at that point, I probably should have tried to just find a beach. The place I wanted to eat at, a shabu shabu place, was full of people and I couldn't eat the dinner I wanted to either.All in all, it was a decent trip, but I am never going to do this sort of thing again alone. It was really depressing seeing all the couples walking around while I had no one. Traveling by yourself sucks.
I've started getting ready to go. Slowly cleaning my apartment and just sent 2 boxes of around 15kg (33 lbs) back to the states. That'll lighten my load for suitcases. I've also started the process for getting the pension refund, I'm set to get over $8,000 dollars so I'm quite pleased with that!
I'm telling the kids that even though I'm leaving, a new ALT will be coming. They say that they'd rather have me. Even if that is tatemae, at least this time, I'm able to let it make me happy.
水族館【すいぞくかん】 (sui/zoku/kan) aquarium
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