Ode to Shopping
This is what my Sunday looks like....the most common hobbies here are sleeping and 'I go to shopping' and damn straight they do...
I never knew I was a person who loved crowds like this...I never disliked the city or thought I wouldn't like Osaka but obviously living in the inner city of an Asian city is a litmus test for the fairly boring but existant country or city person question.
I guess I am equally both but hot damn I adore the energy I get from the bustling crowds even on this day...yesterday...battling tonsilitis and the travel agent who is out to get me. I love it.
I love just walking around this city. Everyone else is annoyed when we get lost but frankly wandering around for an extra 20 minutes last night in my cashmere coat and boots with all the lights of amerikamura/ameremura glistening in the crisp autumn air what could be better?
Can't believe 2 months on and I am still gushing about this place! Still seems slightly like a dream. Statements like...I moved to Asia...alone and I live and work overseas are still so bizarre and hard to believe. I suppose on some level I don't really believe I will survive the year although I can't imagine why. I have never gotten homesick...this place and my people are my home. I have always lamented the fact I never had a hometown, moving around so much. But maybe it was never about not having a hometown or a family home with an attic but the fact I can make a new home in so many places...I carry home with me. And its true. And it's always about the people, I find my home in my family of friends wherever and whenever this may be.
I am lucky for so many reasons...unlucky for a few but the least I can do is be happy or at least make a damn good go at it each day...I am starting to get a little bored though which means one thing, creating my own drama is just around the corner...hmmm just kidding damo! I will start dance and japanese classes once the eternal first paycheck comes in this wednesday....provided we don't all blow it all on wednesdays night out. Exciting news is I am now unofficially off probation...if everything works in my favour I can swap shifts and head to malaysia before Christmas....sigh! I hope so but can't quite believe it until it works out. Starting to think about heading to Tokyo for New years Eve...the big celebrations apparently are at all the temples and such quite close by in kyoto but New Years Eve in Tokyo just sounds so cool...
Student Musings....new favourite question to ask students is 'what was the most shocking thing you found when you visited Australia?' ergo this sentance is bad english...Anyway so far we have...1) that people sometimes walk around with no shoes on Australians have much stronger feet than Japanese! I could not believe my eyes!... 2) our iced coffee has sugar and milk That's when I decided...I would learn English! Favourite recent quotes have included asking the man who has been to 62 countries for extreme sports what was the most shocking experience 'One time in China I had to stand up and introduce myself'
I love these people.
I do love teaching alot of the time. Sometimes its a blast. Sometimes its going through the motions. Sometimes its like pulling teeth and the ladies shoe department looks like a distant fantasy...Sometimes they learn something...sometimes I forget how to spell necessary or exaggerate...Sometimes I make those errors into a high level joke they laugh at to avoid feeling dumb....But no matter what the universal truths ring true...all women love to imagine they are returning clothes...even if they cant speak english get 2 housewives to imagine they are on the phone = fluent. A good NATTO or TAKOYAKI joke will get you far...although is slightly wearing on one's psyche...9 different times in a day 'I have to go to the gym I have eaten too many takoyakis' is only really funny the first 8...
Peace Out Y'all...off to eat fried chicken in celebration of joining gym this week...woohoo.
CLM xxx
posted by japanesetakeout @ 3:07 AM
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