Hits at the strangest times and due to the most unsuspecting things.
I just opened up my course notes for the online photography course I started last year. They’re all printed on the recycled non-white paper that all schools used over there.
Enter wave of Japan-sickness.
I miss it. I miss the people I knew. I so so so miss Tanaka-san and Maeda-san at the photographic shop. I miss yodobashi and rakuten.
But this is my life, my choices. I will always be happy somewhere and missing and loving somewhere else.
Nihon-gone 🙁
(To butcher two languages simultaneously)
I know exactly how you feel having moved across the pacific more times than I care to count. There are still a great many people family and friends that I miss dearly from Canada and the US.
I find that is is just littlest things that trigger “homesickness”, a turn of phrase, the smell of a really cold morning.
Many many hugs to you.
Welcome to my world.
A wonderful place to be, despite the occasional wafts of melancholy.
We must be on a similar emotional cycle. I’ve been quite Japan-sick for two days now. I miss all of you guys and Kamuroya and swimming in the waterfall and konbini and trains and camping in Hongu and fire at the castle and a paycheck that doesn’t make me wanna hide in a hole.
*huge sympathetic and empathetic hugs*
I’m pretty sure Japan must be Amber-sick as well.
But if you in japan we would all be suffering under a bad case of amber-sickness. I still intend to get you that ticket back there later this year so long as you come back. I can bet I wouldn’t be the only one who missed you
So bad, but so funny!
(hugs back)
Where else have you lived?
*snuggles into wonderful Ches hugs*
I really want to go back to Bagus and spin poi on the beach, I wanna feast at Kamuroya with all of you guys, I want to go back to that excellent onsen near you, I want to be theonly one laughing with Kimberley in the cinema, I want to do Kaya and Baskin Robbins nights with Shanta, in Herbie! I also really want to catch up on all the things I was leaving for the month of August and never achieved.
Damn glad I’m loving life here now, otherwise it could be a really sucky time. As it is, it really isn’t. Japan-sickness is like a bruised deep part of my heart, but it isn’t flavouring all elements of life.
*more hugs*
Whatever will brighten my students day now that they can’t speculate about what colour my hair is now!
Oh, I have very good reason to come back now 😉 I think the most I could bear to be away would be two weeks, and that would be hard enough.