Back to Blogging

So I'm back to blogging. Again. That means I was gone again.

While I was gone, I went back to Japan to see my family. My mother recently had a surgery and was recovering at home, so the main purpose of the trip was to take care of her. Nice thing was that she was doing better than I'd expected and there wasn't much for me to do. So I got to hang out with friends, get drunk, eat good food, and do some shopping of Japanese clothes. Clothes and food is something I can't help spending money on whenever I go back to my country. I know people think Japan is expensive, but actually you can get better food and clothes for less. It's true.

I spent three weeks there, missed the plane on the day of my departure, went home to spend another night, and finally got back here on the next day's flight.

If you're interested in some records I kept on what I did in Japan this summer, please check out the other blog.

After I came back to the States, I read a lot. In Japanese. Because I bought some books in Japan. I read a lot about death, which has always been one of my top interests. After my mother's surgery and being in my mid-20s, the idea of death interestingly felt more familiar and realistic. But then it seems you never know what it's like until it's really there. So even though I've read and thought a lot about it, I'm not really getting any closer to it. Death, you're strange.

So that's what I did while I was gone; going back to Japan and thinking about death. I also tried to write. I'm always trying to write because I feel I'm supposed to, but it's been kind of hard since school started. I'm taking 4 Linguistics classes and they give me so much to do. I miss being an English major, reading novels as textbooks and writing stories as homework. But it's nice to be in classrooms where there are other foreign people. It seems to be even cool to be able to speak another language in Linguistics classes, and there actually are people who are learning my language or are at least interested in doing so. It's interesting after two years in the MFA program.