A Day of Relaxation

Insect count: 2 ~ the freaky thing was there were two smallish-medium sized bugs dead on my floor. The first thing that popped into my head? "I'm SO protected in my apartment! 'Zis is cursed! Zat is cursed!'" I'll take it - but hope I don't have to dispose of anything big. (Man I wish I could watch that movie right now. It always reminds me of Sarajan. The summer it came out, we saw it in the theatres some 7 times. LOL ~ The Mummy. ~ "What is it wif you and curses!?") 

Today I didn't do much. I believe part of the problem was that I got so little sleep. I'm not sure why my body insisted on getting up so early when we had the chance to sleep in. Perhaps it's trying to maintain its school schedule. That would be ok with me if it would sleep at a decent time. If it's not going to sleep, then we have to shift the rules! I need sleep - I'm running on fumes!

It seems like I accomplished something this morning but for the life of me I can't remember what now. I played some games on my phone, did some readying, ate breakfast and lunch, msged, and the big happening for my day was going to meet my tutor at Aiina. She's very nice. I felt kind of awkward and I think she felt kind of awkward. I didn't know if I was supposed to offer her money. (In my mind since we're helping each other, no, but you never know... maybe I'm supposed to pay her for Japanese help and then she'll pay it back to me for French help. Who knows!) She was nice though and we chatted for about an hour - getting to know one another and her testing my level of Japanese. :/ I didn't do so well. LOL However, I understood a lot of what she said. Often I just didn't have the Japanese to respond. Well that will change in time! I'm meeting her this Friday again (except for the summer ~ starting next week ~ we will meet twice a week). I'm excited to improve and maybe make a new friend. :) After that was done, I grabbed a couple more library books and headed back to my place in the rain. I love the rain, however it was really hard to see with rain falling in my eyes! I had ridden my bike and it's illegal to ride your bike with an open umbrella here. -Assuming I could pull that off... lol I'm terribly grateful for the rain. Some days have been hot and I've had heat exhaustion 5 times, but I really have been protected this summer. (mmm!)

So, I have to DO things tomorrow or I will feel horribly unaccomplished. (I will go insane.) ALSO, on the way home I found a picture of eel that looks like the eel I had for my eel luncheon. Happy Monday to you! XOXO, A

Oh hey! I hit my third mark yesterday and forgot to mention it! I have now been in Japan 123 days! :D

me relaxing

looks nice, right? all golden... - as the poster says on the side, this is unagi (eel)