I got a package!!! From Nathan. It has some software I needed for my computer but it also had goodies. Magazines (I’m craving English reading material that is not about Japanese culture), a book, and chocolate. It was so sweet and made my day. This morning I took the People magazine to the coffee shop and just reveled in the mundane details of pop culture. It was strange how much it relaxed me and transported me to a different place. I know that sounds ridiculous but that’s how it was.
Last night Deal of No Deal was on TV. It was the Japanese version. For the first time, I knew exactly what was going on. They move a lot faster and the audience is not as vocal.
I bought slippers for my lab last night. We take off our shoes in the lab so slippers are necessary if you don’t want to go with sock feet (or worse, barefoot in summer). I love my slippers – I feel so assimilated!
To give you an idea of how my typical day is shaping up: I get up around 7am (Nathan calls around that time) and have a lot of time to get ready and eat breakfast – or lay in bed a little longer. Around 8:30 I go to a coffee shop just a minute from my apartment. I draw that out for a long time – read, watch people, write, etc. Around 9 or 9:15, I think about heading to the lab. For the past two days I have walked (40 minutes – good exercise) but when it gets too warm for that, I will take the subway exclusively. Nobody from the bridge group arrives much before 9:30 or 10am. Until today, I didn’t have a key so that was also my start time. At noon we eat lunch together – go buy lunch at the store and bring it back to the lab or bring from home. Everyone leaves around 7pm. By the time I get home it’s usually around 7:30 or 8pm unless I run errands before. I usually explore, get or make dinner. I go to sleep around 10:30pm. So that’s it. Pretty boring and a lot of alone time. But I don’t mind it at all.
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Hi Boby, I'm glad you are assimilating. I miss you tons. Sorry you won't see my choir thing this weekend. The kitties seem fine.
It was so good to talk to you yesterday and to have "johanna" on the line, too. Technology is amazing. Very happy you are making your way and feeling more at home. It will be over with before you know it. Enjoy and be in the moment. Love you.
Also, kudos to Nathan for being a wonderful, thoughtful, caring husband.
SOOO intesting to read your reports! I am looking forward to more, especially next weekend when with someone who apparently knows his way around. I don't really want to go anywhere but other places in the world fascinate me --- in a spectator sort of way. So, I am very glad that you are making the trip for me and I can stay home!! I guess you would call me a vicarious traveler.
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