Cold and rainy in Japan!!!

Ohhhhhhh ma goodness it is cold and rainy!!!! Taking the Disney bus to the front gate, checking out of security and that long walk to the Maihama train station was not as hard as it could have been because I was distracted by the pleasant conversation with Brian, a singer from our show. From the train station is a bus ride on the 11 to E-Village. The windows were fogged up I couldn't see when the stop came. A little Japanese boy was staring up at me and I wanted to scold him for not having a coat on and for wearing flip flops with no socks. I'm certain his mommy will scold him when he gets home. I made a quick stop to the "dozo" (have it) pile in the lobby. People who are moving out of E-village put things they can't take with them in the dozo pile and those of us who remain pick through what we want. Tums, some un-opened dental floss and Crystal Light On the Go was all I could get before the winds took me to the elevator. It was a "man-down" situation for sure.

Safe and sound in my apartment. I couldn't bear to watch CNN with all the gloom and doom of the US's current financial mayhem. I turned to MTV when they said unemplyment has doubled and the state of finances are worst than WWII. I am grateful to be here with a job that I love and am a bit scared for April 3rd to arrive.

IT'S TIME

Last week I bought a bicycle and little by little I think I am ready.  I am ready to experience Japan!!!!  It's time.  It is time to explore and see and feel what it's like to be in Japan.  I am ready to leave the comfort zone just a bit.  I think my first stop may be Osakusa or is it Osakasa?  Not sure but I will find out before I get there.  It is a little under an hour away and I think I am ready.  The hum drum of being around so many Americans has taken its final toll.  It is so easy to come to Japan and never leave the US.  I went to Bubba Gumps last weekend.  You can spend a lifetime here and never really be here.   It is time to explore and see cultural differences more and find out what this beautiful and vastly different culture is all about.  I am used to the random stares but know they will grow in intensity and number as I venture away from the city.  They challenge is I have only two days off a week and they are not together.  I will start out with day trips and then see what happens from there.  Yippeeeee!!