Comfy in Japan

I need reflection time! This is evident because this is the first time I have been able to post a blog ... but yet I am now in my fourth week in Japan!

In a way it's too late to try to recall my initial feelings about being here in Japan. I was just so busy, so tired, so without internet, so without time to sit down and write a blog. I've realised that I don't like not having no time to sit and think about what I have experienced.

Especially, when there is SO MUCH that I have experienced here. The first weeks here have been a complete whirlwind. I really need time like now to just sit, and think, and reflect, and write. Really therapeutic. It's hard to strike the right balance.

It is great. The reason I have been so busy is because of the ready-made social life that comes with being a JET. Not only discovering Ibaraki with IAJET, but also the community here in Hitachi. There are other 20 something ALTs here, not only JET but others, sister city people, old JETs, they meet each other sometimes through friends of friends, sometimes at G bros the restaurant popular with foreigners. I met a big lot of them at the beach party. I feel grateful to the 3rd year ALT here for inviting me to these events - it's really nice to be part of the social network here.