September 1st, 2006

It's my one year aniversary! One year ago today, I landed in Narita Airport and made my way to Chris. It was a long and nerve wracking trip (travelling alone is no fun!). After 22 hours of travelling, I was in the sweaty arms of my sweetheart. You see, it was also our two year aniversary from when we started dating. I thought it was a fitting time for us to reunite! Awwww! Anyways, its a year later (and apparently our three year 'dating aniversary' as well) and we are living it up in Japan. The first year was good, we had a few rough patches (homesickness, culture shock, gaining weight, cutting fingers, getting sick and incurable rashes, etc.) but we made it through our first year. This second year is looking to be much better than the first one!

So things are picking up. Chris went back to school today, finally. No more BOE for him (except one a week on mondays). I am going to go back to teaching High school on next Tuesday (which I have already planned for the whole week next week! Woo!). The English School is starting to pick up. We now have 2 students! Yay! Thats still hardly any money for me right now (and NO money for James), but Im sure it will pick up soon. Im still not sure when my elementary classes start yet, but I will find out soon I think. Wee! So we are about to go back into routine which is cool.

Turns out, no second car! How sad! Eric is getting the car I was looking at though, so I may try to snag a picture of it so I can show you what it looks like, since I talked it up so much. James (the owner of the English school), is going to look for a company car. Yay! That means we don't have to spend the dollars on a second one. It would have been a lot of dollars...

Also, Osaka is in our future! We will be going to Osaka on September 15th and stay through the 18th (its a long weekend). Chris is going to take the GRE and I am going to go siteseeing! Yay! Im a nerd! I love seeing historical sites. Yay! We already have our hotel reservations and stuff. It seems like its going to be a really fun time. I like Osaka and we haven't had the chance to explore Osaka the other times that we went. Hoorah!

So thats that. I just wanted to mention the aniversary day. October 7th is the BIG aniversary though...so expect many happy postings on that day. Yay!