Today I totally did not want to go to classes; was in one of those moods. It slowly dissipated and went by quickly, the day that is. The best part of it for sure was the fact that I was invited out to the garden that I helped plant strawberries in (earlier in the trip). So I got to eat the best strawberries I have had this entire trip! Mmm I have started exercising again and its making me feel better, particularly in mind. I need to force myself to constantly stay active, seems I get rather inactive every winter season. I don’t care about gaining the weight as much as I care about how it effects my emotions or chemicals in the brain. Definitely I become depressed, could also be a sun thing.
I hope it is sunny tomorrow. I will be going out to visit a lady, she is 28 years old, that I met randomly in front of Kinki University on the way to work over a month ago. She is really nice and had recently lived in the USA, where she happened to be converted into a Christian. Snicker….she talks about finding god a lot which is good for her and nice to see how it can so positively affect someone’s life, and she is slowly learning more and more about heaven. All I can do is smile and nod. I myself do not find Christianity not to be for myself, nor has she asked my why I am not but…I would rather not disclose and bring up a possible debate. As for other religions such as Islamic and Muslim and Hinduism, it’s because I don’t really know about those ones and have never been invited by anyone to try; via how people often throw various forms of Christianity into your face by different scenarios in life.
Speaking of scenarios I had a dream I made it back to Canada and totally felt a longing for Japan like I was missing something. Though if I remained in Japan as a permanent resident I know I would miss Canada way more. Either way I think it will be sad, most sad of course if I never came home. I take a deep breath. Mr. Otha wanted me to read a novel by a Japanese writer (‘A wild sheep chase’ by Haruki Murakami) so I did, I have finished it and recently started reading ‘Lord Jim’ by Joseph Conrad. He told me in a tone that I could just tell was not impressed and that I should be reading Japanese books while I am in Japan. Such as this book of Genji, which is supposedly the longest book ever written; it was written 1000 years ago by a female novelist. So not interested, it’s about someone’s life, the entire thing. Its about 13 books long, took a person 10 years to translate into English. So anyways not interested, I think too much is lost in translation.
Well that’s my random little blip for the time being, I will write for you later (you being someone…I hope…..other wise writing this is completely pointless for me)
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