Once again, I have royally sucked at keeping this thing updated.
So here we go....
HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
*Gasping*
I leave for Japan in a week.
I am floored...............it's finally starting to hit me and I'm very scared.
When I think about it, 5 weeks is a long time, but I think that it will go by quickly.
At least I hope that it does.
I still plan on thoroughly enjoying my time over there....but I know that I am going to be terrible home/people sick.
I'm going to try to pack as light as I possibly can, but I doubt that my vanity will allow it.
I'm starting to get really sentimental about everything that I'll have to leave behind from stuff like my drum kit and the kitties, to really important people.
I'll probably cry in the first week of being there.
I hope that my host family doesn't hear me, haha.
Oh!
Speaking of which,
I will be staying with the host "mother" and her 34-year-old daughter, and their two cats!!
I am elated about all of them.
I am also thankful that there isn't a man in the household, so that I won't have to constantly be worried about being decent or not offending any males in the home.
And the 34-year-old is young enough that we can go out and do something in our free time, maybe even hang out with some of her friends!
I am so excited about my host family and going, but whenever I feel like that I also start to miss home already.
This is going to be really, really, way harder than anything I have ever done, while at the same time, one of the three life-goals I have being accomplished.
So it's very bittersweet at this time.
I've got the Kirby theme from Crystal Shards playing on youtube...I remember how much I used to love that game, because it was one of the two that I had bought for my 64, and Mario Party 3 is no fun by yourself.
I've been really unproductive lately.....I'm hoping that Japan will make up for it.
My mom and I were talking the other day about how it's good that we will be traveling the first week instead of the last week, that way we will all be more excited about all of the traveling and walking that we will have to do. I think that if it were the last week, no one would really be as excited or ready for it. I have a feeling that no matter how much we all love it, we are all going to be very ready to return.
At least I know I will.
I get homesick very very easily and it was all that I could do to not freak out when I went to Europe.
Crap.
ONE WEEK?
*cries*
Oh! I got a "trial-Yuna" haircut about a week ago to make sure that I was going to like it.
I definitely like having the layers better, I don't have to fluff it or really do a whole lot to it for it to look decent.
I am working on the embroidery for Yuna's obi, and hopefully I can really put in some serious work when I get back before AWA to have it done! I think the skirt will be easy, I'll just make a flower stencil and use fabric-spray paint......
At the lake they we go to in Tallahassee there are a BUNCH of Canadian geese, and one of the families has....
FOURTEEN GOSLINGS.
I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!
They're so cute!
They're colors are starting to come in already, we've watched them for about two weeks now I think.
I had my last JAPN1002 lesson with Sugako-sensei on Wednesday....
It was the most intense yet, and I'm glad that it's over before it got any more involved, haha.
But I loved having lessons with Sugako!
I am really grateful that she took the time to teach me before Japan trip.
Mr. David got back from Korea recently and Sugako said that he got me a souvenir:
I guess one country's Smut is another country's instant coffee.
