Going back to Tokyo after three months..Good times, hard and tearful partings and different feelings.

 

It was too short, one week.  Hardly had the time to realize what I was doing before I had to get onto the plane to fly back for home again.

 

でも、いろいろなことがあって、面白かったな。新しい友達を作って、前の友達と話して、遊んで、すごく満足してた。また日本に行きたいという気持ちがあれば、絶対また行くもんね。その間、日本の友達がカナダに来てくれる機会を待ってるよ。来年の夏、ボランティアのチャンスがあれば、南米、特にペールとブラジルに行ってみたいな。

Friends!  Lets meet up~!  Over a cup of coffee, just pure hanging or even karaoke..

Call me, or else I will make haunting calls after ya :P  Reminder that it's 58, 39 line no longer exists.

Meanwhile, I will try to get a cell phone.. yes, yes.

2006年８月７日、富士山登頂成功！皆ごくろさまでした。

 

五合目の2100メートルから頂上までの3776メートルは七時間かかった。夜の11時出発して、朝の六時に頂上に到着した。いや～でももう八合目から体力が崩れたから、トミトミとアディが引っ張ってくれなかったら、絶対頂上まで登れなかったよ＞＜カナダに帰る前に富士山に登山の夢を実現させてくれてありがとう。

 

On August 7th of 2006, I fulfilled my dream of climbing Mt Fuji before I return back to Canada.  It was a 7 hour climb from 2100m to 3776m.  Thanks to my friends who literally "pulled" me up the moutain and helped in organizing and participating in the ascent.

 

Another 10 days.  I'm not doing much other than attending farewell parties and packing things that seem to not to matter either ending up in the trash or back to Canada.  When asked how I feel: numb, loneliness, homesickness, fear, happiness all twisted and turmoiled.  I find myself as lost and scared as 10 months ago packing to come to Tokyo.

 

I'm still scared of changes.  I'm still about as lost about my future as before.  I'm about as clueless as where I will end up being back at home as when coming here in the first place.

 

The one thing that is different is I feel more confident now.  I'm still young..whatever comes I will conquer it.  The world is changing and I am changing with it.  I am loved by many and I can feel their warm hearts.

 

東京を愛してるわ。

*cough* Please see updated album for photos of kondankai (International students welcome party), Ayumi neesan concert (Ayumi's sister's concert) and party with Taiwanese people.

 

Yes I am alive.  Doing very well.  Sorry that I'm such a horrible blogger.  Hehe

HAPPY GRAUDATION 4TH YEARS!!!!!!

 

21st and 22nd of March are days for Nodai's graduation ceremonies.  And all the eagles have flown separate ways.

 

Pachi-Nagoya

Nakaji-Saitama

Atsushi-USA

Chidori-Tokyo

Nakashita-Hiroshima

 

Fly far and wide eagles!  Me the penguin (reference to my weight?) will continue to roll in mud for 5 more months before I fly my way back home!

 

Especially to Pachi who walked with me the closest these past 5 months...being a great pal and mommy-like figure.  I enjoy the time walking with you back to the dorm from the train station in mornings (although the ride is tough with drowsiness).

 

Why does it sound like I'm graduating?  Well, April's a new season in Japan... and I have said goodbyes to many things (4th years, my job, my old good figure) and shed many tears.  But I don't have time to be depressed: I have to look into how to spend my last year in UBC and job after I grad, participate in ISF and play lots and eat healthily!!  And I have my own cell finally after 20 proud years of cellphone-less life (and trying not to be addicted to text messaging -__-)

It's almost since one month I haven't updated my blog.  What in the world have I been doing?  Well, starting with the obvious, my parents and brother have come to Tokyo and we had a great trip around Tokyo (Akihabara, Asakusa..), Kyoto, Osaka and Hakone seeing great scenary and stuffing ourselves silly with delicious food and ramen.  I was teased relentlessly by my family about my protuding stomach that horribly resembles a pregnant woman of 4 months and my double chin that appears in 80% of my photos.

 

Besides the personal crisis of debating over how fat I've become and how I should lose those extra kilos, I was embraced by the familarity and security of my family and realized how much a child I still am to long for that kind of atmosphere.  I was hit by the thought that maybe once I return back to Canada after this year's exchange, I might never want to leave my family and relatives behind again.  This half year has been an advanture but moving around from one place to another probably tires me out (however much I'd complain about the boredom of daily life being the same redundancy).  Connecting is very exciting but breaking that connection is so painful and I will no doubt feel so when the 4th years graduate and will feel even more strongly when I leave Japan and already felt a little when my parents stepped across the train gates to Narita aiport.

 

I have made many invaluable friends whom I truly care for and probably really care about me in return.  Yet at many points I fear of not being loved and the ones who truly love me can only be my parents who will love me always and unconditionally.  Because no matter how far away I am, in a deserted place or in a crowded place, enjoying or feeling pain, they would think about me and wonder how I am, what I could possibly be doing.  And our connections are forever.  That is why I have a bit of a fear that I might not end up coming to Japan or going anywhere else once I am set back to that safe spot at home again..

パッチのリクエストで、やったよ。遅かったね。。多分パッチ以外の人読まないなあ。。

 

Ｑ１：現在気になる人・好きな人・恋人はいますか？
　んん。。どうだろうなああ。。気になる人がいるかな。。 　

 

Ｑ２：それはどんな人？
　ええと。。ハハ。。

 

Ｑ３：好きなタイプは？
　知識が持ってて、話しやすい
　明るくて、やさしい
　　
Ｑ４：逆に嫌いなタイプは？
　暗い人
　他の人をバカをさせる人
　自尊心を持ちすぎる人
　女性に尊重しない人

 

Ｑ５：異性のココに弱い!!ってところは？
　私に関心を示す

 

Ｑ６：好きな芸能人は？
　芸能人って？　ハハ
　　　 　
Ｑ７：好きな人にカラオケで唄って欲しい曲は？
　私のためにLOVE SONG何でも歌ってもいいよ

 

Ｑ８：逆に唄ってあげたい曲は？
　へええ。。～どうだろう。。とりあえず日本語のだったら、アニメのはいいかな。。
　　
Ｑ９：好きな人にされて嬉しいことは？
　んん。。Q5と同じ：D　　

 

Ｑ１０：今、好きな人のために努力していることは？
　チョコレートを作ろうと思ってるけど。。。自分でつくりきがないよ　

 

Ｑ１１：バトンを回す人十人。
　皆もやちゃったじゃん～