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| JET Adventures 51 - Anniversary |
| Tuesday, July 25, 2006 |
Yeah! It's been a whole year since I came to Japan! It's gone zoomy zoomy whoosh fast; I imagine tomorrow I'll wake up and it'll be 2007 and I'll be in a blind panic about coming back to the UK.
The last couple of weeks have been a bit sad because of the mass exodus of my friends leaving Okinawa. One of my closest friends here Jennie left on Saturday - she's gone back to Vancouver, which coincidentally enough is where I'll be in just over two weeks time.
This is Jennie and my Japanese teacher, Aminchu at Jennie's leaving party:
This time last year I was only planning on staying in Okinawa for one year, with some vague hopes to learn a bit of Japanese and do some Aikido. The brutality of the games industry had knocked me sideways a bit, so perhaps the main reason for me coming was to do some soul searching and remember which way up was. I'm still abysmally rubbish at Japanese and Aikido, but I feel a lot happier. Exploring Okinawa and seeing bits of mainland Japan have been the highlights so far, and I'm starting to get a clearer picture of what I actually want to do when I blow this joint. (What? No, sorry, that's classified information at the moment!)
This year's goals include: improving my kanji reading so I can actually read this critically acclaimed manga series (20th Century Boy, for those who care), taking my Aikido test so that I'm only uber-n00ber-girl instead of uber-uber-n00ber-girl, Hong Kong, Hokkaido, and Bali, cutting all my hair off (actually, that's this week's homework assignment set by Aminchu), and evolving so I can shoot laser beams from my eyes.
But for now, it's the summer holidays and although school isn't out, it's definitely easier to skive off to the beach. |
posted by Alice @ 12:51 pm  |
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