go downstairs to the garage ( Read more... )

it's nothing but sunny skies
and free time
the perfect equation for crazy.

how quickly i've gotten used to life back at home
and how much further away 2 months ago is
and the things i used to concern myself with.

shit happens even when you have no agenda
and no expectations for the day ahead.

on my sister's 21st birthday ( Read more... )

japan and the philippines, and being back home is starting to feel normal again, even though i still have these bouts of disbelief. did i really go halfway around the world for more than a year? did i really do all those things i wrote about? somehow being back here kind of erases all of that... like i never went anywhere. like i'm back in april of ( Read more... )

you start to idealize the place to a point where you think nothing can go wrong here. home is where friends and family live, home is where all things familiar surround you. should be comforting being here again. but when you come back you gradually realize more and more every day that things are exactly as you left them. the problems, the skewed ( Read more... )

my last day in japan (for now.) the taxi drive to akita airport was 3 hours, and it was the most terrifying ride of my life. not only was i stuck in a small space with my cousin and friend in the back along with the stuff we could salvage, we were caught in what looked like a horrible horrible snow blizzard!! i had NEVER seen the amount of snow ( Read more... )

my friends got up at 3am as scheduled, and i said a teary goodbye to them as they got picked up in front of my place by another friend to go to the airport in akita. it would be a 3 hour drive for them, and a long journey after that. i was really sad to see one of my friends go, we had been together since the beginning! trained together in april ( Read more... )

woke up at 7:30 this morning to another early earthquake warning on my phone. the last time this happened was last friday when the big earthquake happened, so this time i woke up my cousin and my friend and we hurried out the door, me still in my pajamas, them carrying bags they had placed right by the door just in case of an emergency. outside, ( Read more... )

the three of us (my cousin, my friend and i) woke up around 8:30 today and got ready to get more supplies today. a friend from ichinoseki came around with her car at 10:00 so we split up into two groups: my cousin with my morioka friend, and myself with my ichinoseki friend with her car. the two of us got in my her car and went to big house to get ( Read more... )

woke up early today feeling utterly gross as i hadn't had a proper shower since thursday... i didn't dare take a shower in that freezing cold water, and i hoped the electricity would be back on today! i don't think i've ever gone this long without having electricity, and i realized how much we truly rely on it for EVERYTHING. what a wake up call ( Read more... )