Things I've learned this summer/Longest Update Ever/Why doesnt my title ever bold?/and why is this blue different from the other...and why won't it change?
Well, summer is coming to an end. Finally. I leave on Thursday, Aug. 17th. I'm so ready to leave, but not quite all at the same time. Mixed emotions, kind of like a year ago, but with different emotions. Not the excitement/anxiety, so much as wanting to leave/not wanting to leave my friends.
Oh sigh.
Anyway. Onto the title: Things I have learned this summer of the year 2006.
1. I absolutely love my friends.
2. Teaching is very difficult.
I still don't know if I like doing it. I never thought I would like teaching very much, mostly because I lack the patience that is so very important. Teaching little kids English that they barely know is even more a test of my patience, but I must say it has been pretty fun. It's not just tthe teaching I find difficult though. It's the leaving too. You meet this kids, and at first it's just working with them, and teaching them. But they slowly become like friends, not very close, but still. Like people you see at school. You just get used to seeing them, every week, and it'll be weird to leave them. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not like...going to cry on my last day and get them all little presents to remember me by, and take their pictures, and look at them on my ride back on the plane. haha. but. I guess I'm curious to see how they are going to turn out, and it's weird to think that I will never see them again.
3. The best feeling in the world is finding something so funny, and laughing so hard, you swear you're about to pee your pants, and you can't breathe, and all you can do is replay the funny event over and over in your head, as you struggle for air and hold your chest with tears running down your cheeks. For that moment, you forget everything else, except the thing that made you laugh so hard, and the fact that you cant breathe, and the best way to get to the bathroom, with your legs crossed over eachother...
4. Shopping in Japan can actually be cheaper than shopping in the States.
5. Some of the best stores in the world are the Japanese 100yen shops and the 300yen shops. I've always wondered though, why are the 300yen shops really 315yen shops, but the 100yen shops arent 105 yen shops? the inconsistency bothers me.
6. I am always missing someone. Usually more than one. and it sucks.
7. I will never ever follow through with what I have planned for summer goals. Especially running and practicing my violin.
8. There is nothing like partying in Japan, with my fellow CA alumni. Though it does get old, I never stop going either.
9. I love watching fireworks. I really want to know what it would be like to see them from an airplane. Or what it's like to watch them, from close up (inside the fireworks, sorta, like being inside a tornado)
10. My cap for living in any one place is about 4 years. Then I want to move on. Therefore, college is perfect.
11. I have too much crap.
12. My brother is a cool guy.
13. Every time I all night karaoke, I'm bound to forget something and realize it 12 hours later. I can always go back and get it though, because Japanese companies and there workers are just like that.and hold onto it for you.
14. There is such a thing as a summer that is too long. I never thought there could be, but there is.
15. It's four months
16. Work is really tiring. and I'm sorry for all those times in years past I didn't really help my mom out after she got home from work.
17. I still need 9 hours of sleep. I don't know if I'll ever grow out of this phase. I guess I'll know I'm truly a "grown-up" when I only need 6 hours. I want to need 9 hours of sleep for the rest of my life.
18. Cooking is like driving, I wouldn't mind someone else doing it for me, but I like doing it myself, because it makes me feel so independent and...capable?
The summer in Japan!
I hope all of you have had wonderful summers, and enjoy what's left! I can't wait to get back to school. (yea, I know, I, can't wait, for school, ??? well, classes can always wait, but.) | 
