Phew!

Well, I had been trying to write at least one blog per month but I have obviously been failing at that. And for good reason! My days of late have been a non-stop flurry of action.

Lately I have been taking just about every opportunity to travel. Whether in Japan or abroad, and my weekends have been taking a beating. Compound that with the fact I have started dance classes on Tuesday, coupled with practices on Monday and then Japanese class on Wednesday, then usually a Friday night where I am dashing off to some trip, I have barely time to catch my breath. Thursdays sound like a day off, but really thats the day I try my best to keep up with laundry and all those other house hold chores that a world wind traveler can't be bothered with.

My life sounds great, and I suppose it is. But after a back to back weeks of traveling and other endeavors I finally let myself sleep in, and I slept in for 15 hours... STRAIGHT! I love this go go life style, I feel in a way so lucky to have a job with a steady enough income to supplement such an enviable life style, but as it may be, I am perhaps just not cut out for it.

I love travel but the hectic pace I am going at is just wearing me out. I REALLY want to add guitar lessons into my agenda on Thursday but then my weeks will simple be booked full. Ah, well I only have 4 more months before I have to go back home. There life will be mundane and such exotic travel and time for lessons of any sort will be out of the question. In that respect I should be grateful for being just a bit zonked out every moment, but I suppose the grass IS always greener on the other side.

On another note, I have managed to finish my JET essay and turn it in. Typing that out made me realize how poor my writing, thinking, and just about everything having to do with academics have fallen. I am really starting to worry about graduate school, and I am rather pleased with my decision to take a semester off before going back to unclassified grads to wet my feet before I hopefully switch over my major.

I know delaying it will not make going back to school any easier, but at my current level I do not think one year would be enough to finish up my degree. Seeing as I really want to make the major switch, I think it is a good decision.

So maybe in the end I WILL have time to do what I want, at least a little bit more time to be a child before I truly grow up. For all the things JET has afforded me to do, it has given me the opportunity to delay reality. Which I am eternally grateful and feeling guilty for. It's been an amazing 2 year ride, and I can see why my students tell me they want to be ALT's too. Our life is sweet, and I am grateful.

And if you think my writing is a tad on the pretentious side, well, welcome to graduate school writing. Because in the end a bit of fluff goes a long way to getting a good grade. (If you think that doesn't fly well, try read a sociological work that is all substance and no style and you'll be snoring in no time)

P.S. I know I sounds busy busy but lo and behold I am here typing at a blog at work, and before that I was on face book. I am sure my academics would not have fallen so behind if I took those moments to study SOMETHING but alas, I am still a lazy bum.