Flying solo

My latest adventures and travels have alas been sans my husband. Dean has moved back to Australia for the new 2010 school year to start a new teaching position nearby our home on the south coast of New South Wales. I am following him back once my contract here in Japan is finished in June.

So I am flying solo for five months!

I start an exciting new job as Library Director at The Illawarra Grammar School in Wollongong in mid July.

It will be wonderful to return home. I'll leave Japan with mixed feelings...sadness at leaving friends, colleagues, and all my wonderful TIS students, and saying goodbye to a country that I have loved and enjoyed being immersed in; and joy at being among family and friends again! Once again I will be able to read packages in the supermarket and appliance instructions in English!

I have loved every minute (or almost every minute) of living in Japan and have learned so much about a culture and country that I knew so little of. I will REALLY miss the efficient transportation system, the wonderful food AND the onsen.

Meanwhile I will maximise what time I have left here and enjoy traveling, sightseeing and eating as much as I can.....