There were days while I was in Japan that I would spend indoors, even if the weather was nice. I would be on my computer or watching TV or reading books in English. While these are not bad things, these were things I could be doing back in America.
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A few weeks before returning to America, I was contacted by one of the Japanese teachers from my hometown in Iowa. She told me that she was going part-time and that the other 3 hours of Japanese were going to be available.
Excited, I applied for the job, even though I had not passed the Oral Proficiency Interview in Japanese that was required by my university in order for me to obtain my teaching license. I had taken the test before I left for Japan, but had only received Intermediate Mid. In order to pass, I need to be at the Advanced Low level. This list is in no particular order, just things that I miss about Japan that I cannot get/do here in Iowa.
"Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwrecks." --Robert Louis Stevenson There were two houses that really stuck out to me during my year in Japan.
One was just down the street from where I lived and the other was in the downtown area. Let me talk about the first one before I go on to the more interesting one. "Let those who wish have their respectability--I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farther most corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and the romantic" --Richard Halliburton I guess that is what Japan was to me--freedom. My whole life, I have lived with someone else, always had to be conscious of how I behaved and how it would affect them. In Japan, I lived alone. Well, not necessarily. I mean, I had Rodger and Ariana just next door, across the balcony, and Meagan was down the way, as well as all the other teachers in the building, but I was living in an apartment by myself. No roommates, husband or family. I did buy two goldfish after a few months, though--Aragorn and Legolas. They were pretty awesome company. Didn't ask for anything except food every once and a while. So, since I have been in Japan for a while I thought it was high time to buy some new bras.
But, there was the problem of size. I did not know what size I was in Japan. Therefore, I had to get a bra fitting. |
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