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Sunday, March 09, 2008
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Skiing
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I haven't written anything in a long time, again.
Quick update: Still with Sada, things are going well. I am re signing my contract and I will be teaching some actual college classes soon. A little scarry, but I am looking forawrd to it.
Main point of this email is that I have finally tried skiiing! Down a mountian side type skiiing with snow.
It is FUN!!! And such an adrinaline rush!!! Sada took me to a really easy spot to begin (Thank the gods!!!) At first I could barely stand on the skiis. And braking.. HA! My option was falling down. Buthe kept working with me and I finally got it! Bunny slopes for nish!!! I think every muscle in my body is a little sore and my butt feels like it has been beaten. Many many falls.
The bunny slopes were scarry at first. Then I was curious about seeing the top. Beautiful view I was told... and if any of you know my sense of curiosity.... Sooo, up to the top. I think my heart was racing with fear for about 20-30 min as I tried to make it down the slope. LOL... I was going as slow as I could, and man it is hard to go slow down a slope like that, especially when you get to icy patches of snow. Ahhhhh soo much fun!!!! I wish I brought my camera.
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Sunday, December 09, 2007
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Been a while since I posted anything...
Sooo I am still in Japan. We just had one of the BENDA (company I work for) festivals. It was fun and there were some really neat dances.
I am still planning on staying in Japan. Life has been pretty good. Last moth Mom and Dad came out and saw me. It was great having them here and I kinda miss them already. We went to a few places, but I didn't get to show them half of the places I wanted to. A month was too short. I did get to take them to Hiroshima to the ABomb dome. If you ever get the chance you need to visit there. Very depressing but really interesting. I also took them to a mountian I climbed, but we drove. My dad was shocked I could drive! When you live in a place that has tiny roads and tiny parking places, you learn quick!
They also got to meet my boyfirend, so I was really happy about that. They got along better than I thought! And in the process I learned how to clean fish. YUCKY!!!
I am not coming home this Xmas and I don't really know the next time I will be coming home. I am hoping to make it back for a halloween though.
I'll try to post some new pictures. I has been awhile.
I am starting to learn the laguage. I can understand about 50% of what people saty now. Which is really cool! I am not sure if I want to teach English for the rest of my life. But I really enjoy it.
Well time to post some pictures
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Saturday, August 18, 2007
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China
Here is a short of the sotry.. soon as Lauren and I get off the bus in down town Beijing it starts pouring.. very hard!! The streets were flooded.. and not with clean water and we couldn't find the train station nor the hostle that we wanted to stay in. So I finally found some other foriegners to help us out and this really nice Chinese girl that was with them took us to our hostle. Next day Forbidden city. It is called a city because it is HUGE!!! Bigger than Benld. We walked for 3 or 4 hours and didn't see it all. Very beautiful, but very crowded in the main places. Next we caught a plane to Xian. No problem there... stayed in a nice hotel, got up in the moring and went to the muslim shopping district. Later caught a taxi to the terracotta soldiers.. long walk again... very ineresting. Lots of people LOTS of foreigners. Got the plane back from Xian to Beijing.. slept in hostle again. Next day we did the Summer palace.. crowded but beautful and a little smelly... then shopping. Wohooo got a 4GB memory card for 10 dollars. I am not good at haggling though.. I think I got taken on some scarves I bought. After that the next day was the great wall... it was great because we got there really really early and there was no one there. After about an hour a few people started showing up but it was pretty nice. LOVED it there but I wish it would have been a clear day. Very hard to see the wall. At one point i tried climbing up on the part of it for a better pic.. but I choose a old part of climb on accident and kinda pulled off one of the capping stones to the wall. It was easy to put back.. but a little emabarrasing. Then the bast part was going down the tabbogen.. a huge slide like thing with a small cart you ride in with a break going down the mountian. It had all these twisty turns and stuff and was a LOT of fun!
The next day we headed home... our plane was delayed for 3 hours but it was nice to be back in Japan. Sooooooo much cleaner! and quieter! Great adventure in China though.
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007
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Life and Trust
Current mood:  determined
This is something that I wrote a friend.. I felt like I should put it up here...
Life can be hell at times. And there is no way to get around it, but it gets better. Things happen for strange reasons. But eventually it all perks up. Hell, I had my fiance dump me, after he lied and I believe cheated on me while I was extremly ill. I then hooked up with John for a little while... tried to make it work with him by finding a job in Japan and having to leave Okinawa. It ended with him and then I found myself in this beautiful country with the soul purpose of staying because I love it. I got to find myself again.
With trust, it is always a risk. Sometimes you can't even trust yourself. But, without trust life just becomes a little dead. Sometimes, after we've had that trust broken so many times, it is really really really scarry to trust again. But there are people out there that won't break it, that are worth every little ounze of pain that you have felt before. There are these few people who can breathe life back into you. But you have to let them... you have to risk your heart again. It's the scarriest damned thing in the world.
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Sunday, April 01, 2007
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Feel like writing
Current mood:  accomplished
So my life been going well. Still planning on staying in Japan. I should be renewing my contract this month.. otherwise I won't be staying in Japan.
I have been doing a lot of mountian climbing... I love it love it love it!!! I need to get myself into a little better shape so I could maybe do the Japanese Alps sometime. Ohh I want to try hang gliding too! That just seems like it would be great.
Lately I've been putting my life into perspective a little more...yet it is so hard to see where you are going ot be in ten years from now or even five. I know I want to be in Japan... and since I've finsihed my Tefl.. I should be able to manage that easily. Though I am planing on staying with the company that I am working for for quite some time. At least three years. One I have the language down a lot more options will open for me. I still want to do some research on Shinto. I need to slowly get back into my philosophy. I miss it.
Something I have learned with Japanese and me learning languages. I'm not particularly good at it. I have friends that just pick it up without a problem. I struggle a little bit more. It annoys me. I want to be able to learn quick... why can't the world have machines like in the matrix.. just plug the info into my head??? But, I have learned a lot... and I know I am getting better. So I just need to keep trying.. harder and harder.
I know my emails usually seem like I am always in a rush... well I am always in a rush. Sorry... I don't know how I have managed to do it, but I don't think I have had a day without going out and doing something instesting in the last past 2 to three months. Comparing that with my life back in the states before my last semester of college... two different worlds! LOL. I like doing things... but I am really looking forward to a little bit of a break. Nice quiet weekend on a beach under some blooming trees sounds like a good idea.
The Cherry blossoms are blooming now and I really want to go out and enjoy them... just not with a huge crowd of people right now. Perhaps later. The cherry trees in Japan are breathtaking... I never seen anything like it! Thisis honestly the BEST time of year to come out and visit Japan!!! Though I still love Fall more...Everything is so beautiful now!!!
Things I have done... Techno club... interesting. I might do it again some day.. but no time soon. Mountian mountian mountians... Just went today with Darlena and Tsugiyama... it was raining so we didn't climb, but really beautiful place. Awesome Onsens!! Hagi.. go to hagi.. find a huge hotel next to a mountian with a train track up the side... I don't remember the name... sorry, but it is really easy to find! nice place! Sally has just left. I am gonna miss that girl! But I know I'll see her again.
So Happy Easter everyone!! I hope you have a beautiful spring!!
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007
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Valentine's Day
Current mood:  amused
Tomorrow is Valentine's Day. It is the first time I haven't really been with someone in 11 years. Yet today I am finding myself happy. Perhaps I just had too much caffine or that I am havinga mood swing becuase of PMS. Hopefully one of these days I will fully learn that happiness starts in my own heart. If I take care of myself then I will be happy.
Ever since Tim and I broke up I've had this feeling like I've failed. That not being married, not being able to make a relationship work was my responsibility. I should have been able to achieve something like that. But now I simply know that isn't the case. I didn't fail... I just haven't found the right guy. I don't know when I will.. I don't really know I ever will... but I rather have no one than the wrong one.
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