Today was my last day in Handa, I had to do so much last-minute packing. Must have left about 5 bags of garbage in my apartment! gomen to my supervisor who will have to get the apartment ready for the landlord and throw all my trash out...
This entire week has been difficult, lots of sayonaras. Just said bye to Dwayne at the station tonite...that was difficult. It makes it a little easier knowing that I will be back in Japan in about 4 months and we will have lots to catch up on! On Tuesday I completely fell apart and bawled like a baby at my last ikebana class. Things seemed normal until the end when my ikebana teacher gave me a hug and started crying. Even though we can't really communicate well, she kept saying good luck, take care of yourself in japanese. All I could blubber out through my tears was, arigato-gozaimashita, over and over again. It was so difficult, I didn't realise how attached I had grown to our weekly classes and how I looked forward to seeing her and my classmate Satomi.
So tomorrow Fiona and I will be catching our flight to Shanghai. Just our luck there is a typhoon happening in Japan right now, a very sssllloooowww typhoon as the weather forecasters keep reiterating. Apparently it won't hit Aichi though so we shouldn't be affected. We are at Kuz's place right now, really nice of him to let us leave our luggage here and crash in between countries...thanks Kuz!
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