Twenty an Adult....

It was my birthday yesterday and I am officially not a teenager anymore I am a young adult. I am in starting my 20's, and I must say there is a slight foreboding of terrifying feelings brewing inside me. This all comes with realizing that my next mile stone other then turning 25 is turning 30 which is a far away but will probably come before I know it (which in a way I hope does not). Thus I know I actually have to make real serious efforts to try and become completely independent financially of my parents, grandparents etc. I have to be completely self sufficient. I mean I don’t have any ambition to over shine my parent’s financial success in life, but I want to at least be comfortable like how they are and seemingly worry free about income. Anyway I suppose I have 10 years to work on all of this, so…I should make a 10 year plan but I know I just at the moment want to save up money and go travelling. I think I will stick with that for now. Growing up is scary and exhilarating.

So if you have me added to face book you can all check out the photos from New Years and what birthday photos I have added. On the 6th of January I went over to Yuki’s for a tea ceremony lesson and then after we went out for a Soba birthday which is traditional Japanese custom on birthdays. Yuki and Akio said that this was the first time they actually did it though. Before we went out for dinner, during the tea ceremony some family friends of theirs dressed me up in a traditional kimono that both the mother and her daughter have worn for various reasons, some also being that they turned 20 years old. It was very beautiful and had a tonne of interesting detail. I was a little worried about how tight it was around my waist because the tattoo was not 100% healed and I did not want to muck it up. We had the tea ceremony and the sensei gave my very own tea ceremony “kit”, or tools and what not. We took some photos and then I got out of the Kimono and we went to the restaurant.


The Japanese restaurant we went to was set up in a traditional Japanese style and is very comfortable and beautiful and plays nice dinner music. We had Nabe first, which is like a universal soup that everyone cooks and eats from. Well you scope out what you want into your own small separate dish and then eat up. They then served more food which was some rice in some soba noodle broth or something, and then soba noodles and dipping sauce and then there was some soba type frozen ice dessert but I could not eat it because there were egg whites in it. I was soooooo full that night from all the food, it was so very good!


Then next morning on my birthday my Mother woke me up at 8am to wish me happy birthday and my family sung to me which was nice but I’m not going to lie I totally cried while they sung it to me and felt extremely sad that I have suck a wonderful family to be so far away from. Ha-ha but don’t worry I’m okay and I sucked it up for the most part and they did not know I was crying until right now. Then I opened my present I had been saving since before X-mas to open and I received a magazine and two books. Then I lazed around my house feeling lonely and sorry for myself until I had to go and get tutored. We worked on my homework and that was the first time I actually did not say anything to the person I was with that it was my birthday. Then SURPRISE at the end of the session Yumi (who was tutoring me) whipped out a present for me when Ayumi and Miku showed up wishing me a Happy Birthday and bearing gifts and cards. So that was a really awesome surprise and then for the rest of the day I was not bummed out. So I paid some bills and bought a tonne of junk food and then chilled at home. Later in the evening Dong Yong dropped of my first plant which is some sort of pink flowering potted plant. So now I have my own pet I can feed my blood to instead of just pouring it down the sink. I also ate my yummy garlic dill tofu dip with some chips with just wrecks your breath for the entire evening or day you ate it. Thus with my luck two boys showed up to celebrate my birthday, and of course I reek of garlic! Whatever though I had meet them once before so first impressions are too big of a deal right? Ha anyways I was super surprised and just kind of like what? But it was nice and they gave me a gift certificate for some ice cream which I can’t eat but gave to Hitomi who also has the same birthday as me so it’s all good. They went out for food and I had tea because I stuffed my face and was full. They are okay, the one boy Zan can speak decent English and seems to be all about punk rock and that jazz. Which is fine but its more of an image I’m getting from him then a life style, to he went on and on about how he likes foreign women and blah. So I somewhat have the feeling that he only wants to be friends with me because I am foreign and scoff look exotic? Or as exotic as a Canadian can look ha-ha. Oh well whatever I think I just need to accept friendship and not trying to figure out the motive behind why a person would actually want to be my friend. I believe it’s because I already have such amazing friends that I hold an extremely high bar that I compare everyone too. So those of you who are my best buddies your pretty cool guys and it makes it hard for me to get to know other friends with you guys in the back of my head being so uber cool.

So yea I feel like I have friends just when I was getting lonely again. Tomorrow is P.E class and I am going to die if I go. My tattoo is not 100% healed yet and I don’t think I can wear a bra yet…but I don’t want to be a little bitch and not show up because of a tattoo that’s almost healed but not quite. Then again there’s the part of me that does not want to screw up $700.00 worth of art permanently on my body. So yea, I’ll tell you what happens with that. I love you guys talk to you later!