3 weeks and Counting!

I leave August 1, 10:05am from Reagan Airport in DC, short layover in Chicago, and I'm off to Japan, where I will spend the next year...or two or three... being an assistant English language teacher at Sumatomogaoka High School in Kobe, Japan.

My BFF and Official Facebook wifey, Mary Margaret aka MM, will be going too, but sadly she will be on another island. Luckily, MM discovered a ferry we can take back and forth so that I can go surfing at her fantastic little beach apartment, and she can come hang out and eat Kobe cows. Although the last time I was there, I didn't see any cows so ::shrugs:: we'll see.

I'm pretty excited as well that I will be decently close to Osaka, where I studied abroad in 2006. My host family, the Takas, live there. It will be fun to see my little brother Reize. He was only 3 when I was with them so he must be getting big by now:)

While I'm excited to go, I've lately developed a bit of anxiety about the whole thing. Not necessarily the being in Japan part- been there, done that. But I've got a LOT of stuff to get rid of and ship home... and inevitably right before I sell my car, it decides to get run into by a trailer hitch on a truck, and belts start squeaking, the little plastic thing on the gear shift is popping out and making my life complicated every time I want to reverse the car. I pretty much hate cars and can't wait til I don't have one anymore. Just a bunch of little stuff.

Also, I'm not quite sure how I'll survive without my Cheesecake Factory family, and Sunday Funday and Half-Off Wednesdays at Fairview. It'll be okay, and I know it, but it's going to be a lot harder leaving this time. This time, I'm not lame and spending all my time with a stupid boyfriend, so I actually have friends to leave behind. No bueno. For the record, I love all you CCFers. Even Jeff Brown and his Matrix will be missed at some point. Not too much. But a little.