My efforts to see the film keep being thwarted. But other things took priority. Friday night I was invited to the 3rd year homeroom teacers’ bonenkai - or forget the year party. I had a sore throat and didn’t feel like obliging them in debachery, cos I wanted to say healthy for Australia.
But, as the tone suggests, I went anyway. And I’m glad I did. I got to practice my Japanese some more, and I even made a short speech about why I became a teacher (albeit 2 sentences). But, I contained their encouragement to drink, drinking only half of what the other did. To bed early and much sleep.
Saturday, I went to a function put on by the “Japan-British’ society, which turned out to be some sort of elitist club for business men. They lured the new ALTs with free food and drinks, but we (Nick and Aroop came along as well) were clearly 20 years younger than anyone else in the room. Afterward, I met up with Kieran, that good NZ bloke, to watch “The Office” at my place. I recently added the neccessary support for my computer to play encripted DVD’s, and it turns out my optical drive’s firmware doesn’t care about DVD zones. And since linux won’t certainly enforce a stupid system like the regional codes, I can play absolutely anything now. It’s very nice.
Today was an exploration of Jusco - a huge dicount department store. Like a Walmart, I guess. It was that big.
Changing gears, this week is the anniversary of Meredith’s tragic car accident. I’m reminded again of how she asked the right questions - the hard ones, the ones that made you look at yourself - and I’m further forced to consider how I don’t have such a sounding board now. Did I learn enough from her to continue to grow and challenge myself? I don’t think so, I need another piece of iron.
As far as romance is concerned, let’s not go there for the moment. I’ve learned from Nick how to find the beauty in every new soul. Comparisons are unintenionally made, but even Mer had a bar, so to speak. Right now, I don’t know what I need, or what I want. I know my current state doesn’t feel right, but that’s yet to be determined if it’s a bad thing.
Look, I said we’re not going there, and you’ve made me type the gibberish in my head. Well, you go and make sense of it and then get back to me.
mata raishyuu