back in the snow
Well, here i am - back again in snowy kanazawa. had a fantastic visit home for the holidays. it was my first time going back to the states since arriving in japan. can't really decide how i feel about the trip on a whole. on one hand it felt so good to see all the people who i love and miss, and on the other, it has made coming back all the more difficult. oh well. guess i'm still figuring out how to be happy here.
while home i was, or course, hit with a mutilitude of questions - some answerable and some not. for example, the most common questions: "How is it?" "Do you like it there?" "How is it going?". i found that i could not think of a decent way to answer these questions -- saying "its good" just doesn't seem to cut it. i find that it is incredibly difficult to verbalize what my experiences have been. and as much as my friends and family want to hear about me and all that i am experiencing on the other side of the world, i just want to hang out like its normal - as if nothing has changed. i want to hear the usual gossip, and talk trash and just be as if i have been here the entire time. of course, i haven't been there the entire time.
this is not a complaint. i imagine i must sound a bit, what - can't quite think of the word, blase? snobby?
in other news: after what felt like a week of travel - left my parent's house in the bronx at 6:00 am on wendesday, january 4th, i finally walked in the door of my apartment in kanazawa (ok -nonoichi!) at 3:30 am on january 6th only to teach a couple of hours later - at 8:40!! needless to say, i bet i wasn't the best teacher. i then slept what might be an olympic medal worthy 15 hours! today, as imagined, i feel a bit groggy. the kerosene fumes in the apartment don't help.well, this was a pretty sad post. promise the next one will be filled with all sorts of interesting japan stuff... at least i hope so!
while home i was, or course, hit with a mutilitude of questions - some answerable and some not. for example, the most common questions: "How is it?" "Do you like it there?" "How is it going?". i found that i could not think of a decent way to answer these questions -- saying "its good" just doesn't seem to cut it. i find that it is incredibly difficult to verbalize what my experiences have been. and as much as my friends and family want to hear about me and all that i am experiencing on the other side of the world, i just want to hang out like its normal - as if nothing has changed. i want to hear the usual gossip, and talk trash and just be as if i have been here the entire time. of course, i haven't been there the entire time.
this is not a complaint. i imagine i must sound a bit, what - can't quite think of the word, blase? snobby?
in other news: after what felt like a week of travel - left my parent's house in the bronx at 6:00 am on wendesday, january 4th, i finally walked in the door of my apartment in kanazawa (ok -nonoichi!) at 3:30 am on january 6th only to teach a couple of hours later - at 8:40!! needless to say, i bet i wasn't the best teacher. i then slept what might be an olympic medal worthy 15 hours! today, as imagined, i feel a bit groggy. the kerosene fumes in the apartment don't help.well, this was a pretty sad post. promise the next one will be filled with all sorts of interesting japan stuff... at least i hope so!
posted by Roxie | 6:53 PM
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