27/09/2006

So I really needed to write this email, as you may have guessed from my title, I am feeling really homesick at the moment... and need to get some stuff out. I have been feeling kinda blah for about 2 weeks but today everything just fell apart.

So I had my Japanese lesson today and was feeling ok. Kida Sensei went through the usual questions... how are you today? how's your sister? how's your parents? and I don't know what happened, but the second she mentioned parents, I burst into tears... and I just couldn't stop for over 2 hours...

Poor Kida Sensei, she didn't know what to do... she just kept giving me big hugs and asking what was wrong but I just couldn't form any straight answers (even in English...) and just kept apologizing, but she was so great about it and just told me to cry.... so I did. She understands coz one of her daughters lives in Slovakia and the other lives in Hiroshima and she said for the first 3 years her daughter in Slovakia would always ring her up crying.
So she said that while I am in Japan, she wants to be my second mother. And she is coz she is always helping me out with everything and takes me to lunch and tells me to ring her when I need help... she's so amazing.... im going to buy her a present.

Then after all that crying I just got the biggest headache and had to go to work, and I had agreed to do overtime so I did 6 lessons in a row.... and it was just a horrible lousy day.... I never thought I would get this homesick. So please keep sending me your emails guys, you don't know how much I appreciate them.... any little story you have to remind me why im here, coz lately I am forgetting...

My cousin Dan is coming to visit in 13 days. I cant wait, you are my salvation Dan!

In other news, My new roommate Laura has moved in, and she is so lovely, I couldn't have asked for a nicer person. She is from Atlanta and her birthday is the day before mine!! We even write our "L"s the same way... she's got a good collection of DVDs too..

We had a second earthquake here yesterday morning at 7am, not so big this time, only a 4. I didn't freak out as much this time, and actually rolled over and went straight back to sleep. Laura enjoyed it, as it was her first one! Went for about 10seconds...

I haven't been back to karate yet, I did actually mean to go last week but things happened and I didn't get too. I will go tomorrow though.... my plan is to stick it out a bit longer and if that sparring thing happens again im going to try and have some words to the sensei.

We had a good juggling session on Sunday, I juggled clubs for about 6 seconds before dropping them! Scott was proud.

So that's all I feel like writing right now... I hope I haven't depressed you too much....
if you're reading this on Peters web, how do you like the new layout? Thanks for doing that Peter, I appreciate it muchly...

Oh and if any of you are interested, Scott has a blog on MySpace which he writes in regularly and is a really interesting read about our life here in Matsuyama. Check it out at:
www.myspace.com/okashina_usagi

So I guess ill talk to you all later.

Luv Lesley xxoo