Okay I'm here

I got to Japan last Sunday, August 26th.
As long flights tend to make me forget the memory of them, I don't really want or need to recall it. All I know is that when I got to Japan I never ever wanted to sit down again.  But, I had to... I had to take a three hour bus ride to get to Utsunomiya and then I had to take a 7 or so minute train ride to to get to Ujiie.  This whole process started at 4:30am on August 25th in Denver for me, and ended at about... 23:30 August 26th Japan time so of course I was really exhausted after.

Monday, the 27th of August I was taken to meet the Board of Education with another girl who is in my company named Rachael. She lives in the same complex as me and comes from Las Vegas.

So, of course I am going through a bit of homesickness and jet-lag is horrible and maybe a bit of culture shock as well.  You're probably thinking "WTH Korin. How do you have culture shock in Japan again? You were just there!" ...well... let me tell you, this area I am in now is so different than Tokyo and Yokohama that it's like a different country.

For example.  Here I have to drive.

DRIVE.

ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROAD.

Starting on Tuesday the 28th, we had teacher training.  It was intense and many times I thought to myself: 'What the hell was I thinking, I don't know how to teach little kids.  I don't think that this was a good idea, God this was a horrible idea.'

Which brings me to the main point of this.
I know in my last post I had said that I don't see myself in Japan forever.  And obviously this is probably the loneliness talking more than anything now but I think that statement is getting more and more true as time goes by.

So I guess it's really good for me that my contract is only until mid-March.  If I hate it, then I can get out of it then.  But, I am not going to break my contract, no matter what my mom says about me being able to.  That would bring way too many financial repercussions on me.  I don't want that, so I'll stick it out at least until then.

But then what will I do when/if I got home in March for good?

Well. First of all, I am going to live with Alysha if she still has space in her house.  Then, I don't know for sure what I will do other than that.  But, I am actually getting really excited about doing that.  And I don't want to get anyone's hopes up about it, so I won't talk to anyone about this. Alysha just offered it as an option if I come home at that time.  I'm thinking that I should get my foot in the door with those translation companies that my auntie had told me about, and I feel like Japanese has already come back to me with a huge smash.  More than last time anyways.  So, hopefully I get better at Japanese because I need to use it at work to read my lessons and then I can go on to that instead...

And then I want those tattoos I was thinking about too.  A cherry blossom, the lyric 愛の嵐 from 時計仕掛けのアンブレラ and then I was also thinking something Harry Potter related like maybe the Deathly Hallows or something.  Also I need to get my ears pierced lol.