私は日本に住んでいます

Well, I guess I should get this over with!

I am now home in the US of A, mostly recovered from Jet Lag but still tired and DYING from the heat. Its freaking hot down here.

( So about my last few days in Japan )

Unfortunatly my goodbyle to Japan was rushed. We had to jump on the earliest train to Narita, and from there I had to run to get Josh's forgotten cellphone. Then it was a sprint to get to the gate. There, I had to wrestle with my bags. TOO HEAVY. So, with the aid of like.. SIX charming airport ladies, we shipped another box of my stuff and managed to get my bags down a bit. YAY. Then it was on the plane and off to Shanghai. THERE, they said my bags were STILL heavy. I had to pay a fine, AND check another bag. THis cause complications because I had to pay for the box, except I didnt have any Chinese money on me. After nearly breaking down in tears on the poor box lady (While Im sure Shanghai is a nice city and the Chinese people a lovely bunch, the airport staff was a whole lot harsher and no-nonsense compaired to the accomodating ladies of Japan, so travel-weary me was just about on my last shred of sanity), she accepted my japanese money and i crawled my way onto the plane.

( BUNNY!!!! AND PHILIPPINES!!! )

The flights were long and even having a few hours in Japan didnt make me feel too happy =( But I finaly got home. Its good to see my parents again and all the animals and stuff. I had terrible jet lag the first day but im slowly becoming less of a zombie.


And so......... my travels come to an end! Its safe to sad I had the time of my life. Making new friends, traveling to new places, growing up *GASP* probably only a little bit.. I cant even put down in years how this year has changed me, how the people I met have made such a strong and welcome mark on my life. While I'm really, REALLY sad that I cant ever return to those times--parties on the roof, complaining about classes, all that Study Abroad stuff--I know that I WILL see the people who mean the most to me again and I know that what I have to do now is keep those connections alive.

Sitting here on my butt at home, its pretty easy to forget just exactly what last year was like. I wont feel the full effect of returning home for a while, because home is home and not hard to adjust back to. So Ive got to keep in touch with the people i love, do better with letters and emails, do what I should have been better with towards my friends back home. I know I'll still procrastinate and be terrible with mail compaired to a lot of people, but im going to try!! Because what I've learned the MOST out of this whole year is that Friends are so important, so wonderful, such a paramount part of my life. So I dont want to lose touch with ANYONE. And hopefully I wont :)

So, basically, this journal is over. I'll put a link to some picks later, here or maybe in cherprudence Im not quite ready to move back to that Journal--need to do some nerdy Summer Cleaning and all that, but. Thank you, everyone, for reading my ramblings and coming along with me on this journy. I really appreciat the love and support, and I hope you'll like my boring life as much as my Japan life :) I'll try to keep it interesting, no matter what.

♥