i’m the world’s worst blogger. for some reason it seems really hard to blog. i clearly put too much thought into it.
here are the things that i’ve been up to:
-work. it's fine but i really miss my kids. and my old co-workers. this place lacks humor.
-joined a book club. we are reading “the memoirs of cleopatra.” we meet june 5th to talk about it. it's 1000 pages. i just bought the book...i even procrastinate "fun."
-joined a bunco group. i’ve never played bunco before so we’ll see how it goes.
-took a karate lesson. grab my shirt or my wrist and see what happens.
-went to the dragon boat races in naha. they do them every year during golden week (they have 4 national holidays in the space of a week). the races were a bit anti-climatic but we had fun eating japanese street food and losing at carnival games.
-stood in line for 3 hours to see the avengers and for 2 hours to see hunger games. movies are a big deal here because they show them so sporadically and in such small theaters on base. like, they'll show a movie once and then again in two weeks. it's weird. it costs $5 to see a movie on base and $18 to see a movie in town so we generally go on base.
-paddle boarded on torii beach. it’s actually the beach on the base where i work so i avoid going there to avoid my clients but it’s a great place to kayak and paddle board. and super close to my house.
-went to round one. it’s an 8 story place of awesomeness. one floor is arcade games, one floor has a roller skating rink and mechanical bull, one floor is chair massagers and comics, one floor is a bowling , alley, etc. it was really fun except for a little boy got right in front of my while i was roller skating and it was like he felled a tree. i don’t remember ever having had the wind knocked out of me like that before.
-finally bought a tv. i also bought an xbox and a kinect. been playing a lot of "just dance." i sweat here like i've never sweated before. it's pretty gross.
-went to a Japanese thrift store.
here are some things i'm going to do:
-buy snorkeling equipment and start snorkeling on saturday mornings.
-hike mt. fuji in july and most likely go to disneyland in tokyo! i'm really excited. mostly about disneyland but mt. fuji might be cool too.
-try to hit all of the beaches on okinawa one by one.
-ride my sweet beach cruiser with the elderly okinawan men on the seawall by my house.
-go to hong kong or taiwan before the summer is over.
-study for my MAC test (master's in addiction counseling). it's in september and if it don't pass, i don't have a job. talk about pressure!
-not be the whitest person here. my legs are transparent!
