Journal Time and the beginning of Spring Break

Today, I finally got my rest in. I slept till about 2pm. So that makes it about 12 hours of sleep. I felt so much more refreshed today than I have this past week. I think that since JGz has come to Japan, it really threw me and everything out of balance and I have just been running on empty this whole week. I haven’t exerted myself this much for a long time. So I wasn’t used to hanging out and moving around so much either.

I wanted to chill out alone today and get some relax time in today. I wanted to use the internet, but it still doesn’t work. I wanted to do laundry today too, but the problem was that MTki wasn’t home and the door was locked. It was really really windy today too. So I was stuck at home typing up my entries for the past week, which is a good thing though. I have been lagging on that.

I was able to get over there to reset the modem and I could get online to check some email and news sites to see what has been going on. But it doesn’t seem like I missed out on much, so I’m all good about that. But I think that recently that it has been so windy that it knocks some of the wires around and I think that is the reason why my connection cuts out. It has been warmer recently, but the winds are very severe and many things are tossed around. I always see benches and bus stop signs toppled.

I went out tonight too. I met up with the guys like usual. There were no girls; that was for the afternoon group. I should have gone to that one too, but decided to get some rest instead, which is probably better for me anyways. It is always better to be well rested, but I haven’t seen any of them for a long time. So that is an on and off good and bad thing. I met up with them around 10pm, which is a bit late to meet actually when I had the whole day to do nothing. We went to a izakaya and had a few drinks and ate dinner together. We talked a lot, which was a good thing, but we didn’t make a plan for tomorrow. I think that it was a tough time for all the Japanese people this week because JGz didn’t plan a damn thing, and it was all on everyone else.

Is that common for Americans to do? Do they really go all over the world and count on their friends to show them around without making a plan for what to do… for even one day? I know a few people that have done that, but I believe that is a real inconvenience for people since, you know they have work and school too. Even though they come, and it’s a once in a lifetime thing, still, we have work and school. Yeah, so I was a bit surprised about that and everyone seems to be stressed by it. We stayed at the izakaya till around midnight before we went back home. I mean it does sound strange since I’m an American myself, but I don’t do that to anyone. I actually do the opposite and give them a very detailed plan and I just want them to join me while I carry it out. I did that over the first summer when I moved to Japan. I think that it makes a big difference, but I wonder if I was an inconvenience to anyone during that time.

The keihin-tohoku line was having troubles again. This time it was because of my home station. Last time I got stuck at Kounandai station for an hour for some reason. Tonight, I would have been stuck there because the winds in my area are really strong. Things have been blowing around and everything. They stopped the train, but lucky for me, I was with YFto and usually I get a ride from him back to my house in Hongodai. I hate to inconvenience him all the time, but we were able to talk a bit more so that’s good. He’s a really good guy, so that’s good.