Chotto kanashi des...*/ a brief pause in transmission

Today was kind of sad* as it was the last day of training, which meant all these cool new people I'd spent the last few days hanging out with returned to their teaching positions all over Southern Japan.
I, along with 3 other trainees had to spend an extra night at our current hotel due to how the company ahd planned things for us and the location of our teaching positions; and it felt so weird sitting at a dinner table, just the 4 of us where a big rowdy rabble of trainees usually sat.
Before that I had also managed to depress myself a little by looking at pics of my sisters and friends and wondering what they were up to without me.

But now all I can think about is what lies ahead- tomorrow I am meant to move into my apartment, get registered with my alien status, get a mobile (finally!), and other stuff I wouldn't be able to do without the aid of a fluent Japanese speaker. I am shitting bricks (I love that phrase) about what my life is going to be like once I leave the relative ease of hotels manned by staff who at least speak some English, and people around me to help translate.

Tomorrow my real life in Japan begins in
Tsuyama
My stomach is doing flip flops as I type...
I may not be able to update this blog for a little bit as I move in, unless the person who lived in the apartment before me had internet- internet cafes aren't as popular as most people have internet at home so there is no need; and annoyingly, setting my internet up will take quite a while- possibly weeks :( I can feel the withdrawal of the internet kicking in just thinking about it.

But yeah, I'm doing ok and will update this with pictures as soon as possible. Smell ya later- next time you read me I'll be a Japanese apartment renter...