At first the thought of going home kind of scared me, if I have to be completely honest. Things like getting a new place to live and a new job feel a bit daunting.... they just add to the stress of packing everything up here. And I have managed to accumulate so much stuff. A lot of junk, but also a lot of gifts from various people and souvenires from trips etc. But now I am in full throttle pack stuff up mode... I have found a fairly cheap shipping company, and am now sorting through everything. I've thrown out 2 big bags of clothes..... slowly my house is getting less cluttered!!
And I am so excited about going home. I just feel like everything is going to be so much easier there. At first I guess its going to be difficult, but once the first couple of months are over and I'll have a job and a place... life is going to be sweet! I'll be close to my whole family. And all my friends will be there! And I won't live in a freezing cold house in Winter, or a sweat box in Summer. And when I have to speak to people on the phone, it will all be in sweet, easy English. I won't have to worry about any lanuage barriers, or cultural misunderstandings. I'll be able to go to restaurants and read the WHOLE menu... just loads of little things over here that I have grown used to the challenge of... there will be absolutely no challenge in Australia. Ahhh life is going to be easy!
I have a couple of interviews coming up for some graduate programs that I applied for, so I feel really confident that I am going to be able to get a job that I enjoy. I am pretty excited at the prospect of starting my career, finally!
Yeah, I'm excited about going home.
Recently B had a bit of a disaster turned good. He rang me up one Sunday morning (I was staying at Richards house after another all night binge drinking session in Kobe) all panicked... he had had a car accident. I thought that he had totalled both cars from the sound of his voice. He was really freaking out. He couldn't understand what the other driver was saying and really didn't know what to do. Luckily for him, we have excellent insurance. I paid a little extra on the insurance to buy it through one of my adult students. Anyway, I phoned the insurance broker (who speaks English having spent 3 years on a cruise ship going around the Greek isles etc lucky thing!) who rang B back to tell him what to do. Then my student rocked up (Sunday morning!!!) to the scene of the accident and sorted EVERYTHING out. By the time I made it to where B was, everything was done. And our hire car wasn't damaged at all. Kumeo (friend, insurance guy and member of my adult conversation class) filled out all the paper work, and told the police and the other driver that if they had any more problems to call him directly. The other day Kumeo said that the insurance claim was all finished up. The repairs on the other car cost about 90,000yen ($900) plus they hired a car for a day while their car was being repaired for about 30,000yen ($300... my car costs 10,000yen a MONTH to lease...). There was no personal injury (which Kumeo was stoked about... he rang up and was so excited on the phone) costs. Actually, the only damage B did to the other car was knock their bumper off. So so so so happy and relieved that we had such good insurance! The accident didn't cost us a single yen in the end- just our (Japanese) no claim bonus.
