Three Weeks.
I'll be at Narita in three weeks from right now. Right now. It's Thursday and the first days of the week have flown by. Monday was lessons, next week is my last class EVER. Tuesday night I went to the gym and that was surprisingly it. Then last night we went out for Rumiko's birthday at Nishiki, the best okonomiyaki restaurant in the world. Well, in the area at least. Chinami brought the kids, so all in all there were 12 of us. I don't know, but small children and grills in the center of the table doesn't strike me as the GREATEST idea in the world, but what do I know?
Anyway, we bought a cheese cake and an apron for Rumiko and she was definitely surprised to get anything. She's always so happy because her birthday is July 4th and she loves America so much. So dinner was a bit chaotic, but fun, as the kids made a choo choo train and ran up and down the narrow aisle between the tables.
I'm having a small freak out this morning about what I have left to do to prepare for leaving and also how I am going to keep my bills paid when I am home and jobless.
So some of the things I have to do:
-Change my visa (but I can't do it until two weeks before, so I'll do it next week)
-Close my bank account, after I get my last pay check
-Pay Gas, water, electric
-Cancel Yahoobb
-Cancel my cell phone
-Pay the taxes that I SHOULDN'T have to pay
-Deliver things people have bought from me
-Give some goodbye gifts
-Throw away all of my crap
-Send a few more boxes home
I took the left over stuff from the sayonara sale to the Off House last night and it was so depressing. They took a stack of clothes including brand new with tags gap pants (2 pairs) among other things, and all I got was about $10 for EVERYTHING. Then there were brand new shoes that they didn't want and tons of lightly worn clothes and I said fine, throw them away, cause that's all I could really do. And I think, THINK, that the reason they didn't take a lot of the stuff was because it was too big, which makes NO sense, as I've boughten clothes that fit me there before, and the average Japanese person is a lot bigger than you might think. Like I said, it was really depressing. But I can't afford all this shipping.
Anyway, we bought a cheese cake and an apron for Rumiko and she was definitely surprised to get anything. She's always so happy because her birthday is July 4th and she loves America so much. So dinner was a bit chaotic, but fun, as the kids made a choo choo train and ran up and down the narrow aisle between the tables.
I'm having a small freak out this morning about what I have left to do to prepare for leaving and also how I am going to keep my bills paid when I am home and jobless.
So some of the things I have to do:
-Change my visa (but I can't do it until two weeks before, so I'll do it next week)
-Close my bank account, after I get my last pay check
-Pay Gas, water, electric
-Cancel Yahoobb
-Cancel my cell phone
-Pay the taxes that I SHOULDN'T have to pay
-Deliver things people have bought from me
-Give some goodbye gifts
-Throw away all of my crap
-Send a few more boxes home
I took the left over stuff from the sayonara sale to the Off House last night and it was so depressing. They took a stack of clothes including brand new with tags gap pants (2 pairs) among other things, and all I got was about $10 for EVERYTHING. Then there were brand new shoes that they didn't want and tons of lightly worn clothes and I said fine, throw them away, cause that's all I could really do. And I think, THINK, that the reason they didn't take a lot of the stuff was because it was too big, which makes NO sense, as I've boughten clothes that fit me there before, and the average Japanese person is a lot bigger than you might think. Like I said, it was really depressing. But I can't afford all this shipping.