Blog Update

Hi everyone!  Long time no see!  If you've actually come to read this, thank you for your patience.  I don't have much of an excuse for why I haven't posted much over the last six months.  Mostly just that I ran out of things that I thought were interesting enough to write about.  After you've been here for so long you just get used to all the "different" stuff and it becomes difficult to identify what might be interesting to someone who had never been here before.

Anyway, I have some news!  As many of my most regular readers will know by now, we are moving back to America soon!  While we're excited, that does mean that I will be closing the doors on this little blog.  I will leave it up as an archive, of course, I just won't post anymore.

But before that happens I DO have a few last hurrahs planned.  I have a few regular posts I've had on the way, way, way back-burner that I will try to get out soon.  I also plan to do some "leaving Japan" posts as we're on our way out the door.  Topics to include:

• What To Do If You're Moving to Japan
• What I'll Miss About Japan
• How Japan Has Changed Me

And then I may finish with some posts about the "reverse culture-shock" I experience after we are back in the US.

Stay warm and stay tuned!

Latest News

We are currently in a nice, new apartment for a couple of weeks.  The relocation people seem to have thought of everything: dishes, linens, washer/dryer etc. are all here.  Moving out of our house took two days and since people did it for us, we spent the time lazing around on our front porch.  Not a bad deal.  I decided to wait and talk about what we shipped/left here when I unpack in Japan.  We pretty much guessed as to what to ship so we'll see how well we did when we get there.

fancy (and untouched) place setting in the apartment

We leave on Thursday, May 5th, early in the morning and are going through San Francisco to Tokyo.  We found out that several people will meet us there to help us with various things (thank goodness) AND we found someone here in Greenville who lived in our house in Japan.  He told us a few things about our new house including that we'll have rice paddys all around!  So expect many rice paddy photos to come....