Hello everyone, I hope you are all doing well. Today started well for me. After pleasant dreams last night (which I can't remember) and restful sleep, I awoke feeling bright and cheerful. Well, then I had to get up from my futon... I have said before and I will say again, the only problem with futons is that you have to use all your morning energy just to get out of bed. My bed at home is at just the right height to kind of roll out and be half standing... Futons are not like that! I have gotten quite used to sleeping on one, and most nights find it most comfortable. I just wish it were a little higher... :) Anyway... I did have a good night, and have had a great morning! :) After a very refreshing cool shower, I had the opportunity to talk to my family for a while. Then I had Eastin read to me from his book. We tried an experiment today that seemed to work fairly well. Eastin has a habit of mumbling while he's reading, so that I can hardly hear him. So today, I had him pretend he was in a play. I let him stand on one of the dining room chairs on one side of the den, while I sat on the other side to listen. Even with Baby playing loudly with a balloon I could hear Eastin most of the time. I think it worked! Then I took Eastin to school. It was not quite as pleasant as it was last week. The temperature has gone back up to 82 degrees, and we have a high today of 89! Humidity doesn't help much, as it's something like 75%, and there's practically no breeze. Tomorrow we are probably going to have a storm come through, so perhaps it will cool things down a bit. Hopefully it will be cool by mid October. (I don't mean to sound like the weather channel.)
I say I hope it's cool by mid October, because I hope that something very exciting is happening then! I think plans are sturdy enough now to tell... :) My brother is going to come visit Tsukishima, Japan!!!! It will be so fun taking him around to show him the places I've seen and to tell him the things I've learned! I can't wait. Any of my family would tell you that I've never been 'do stuff by myself' oriented. Some people think it's funner to do stuff by themselves. But I think it's always funner to have a friend with you, and absolutely positively unquestionably stupendous to have a family member to do things with!!! It's indescribably wonderful to have someone to do things with whom you can rely upon fully, trust entirely, communicate comfortably, and enjoy to the greatest extent! And elder brother fits all of those categories. Can you catch a glimpse of my joy? It will be so fun to be able to share things with him that I won't be able to take home. I hope he'll get to enjoy things like the food, the culture, the trains, the 7-11 ;), the people, the shopping, etc. There are just so many things here that are impossible to put into words (for me at least). Perhaps after seeing them my brother, who is much better with words than I, will be able to explain or describe things better.
Well, today we are going to Chiba. Directly following lunch, we are going to pick Aidan up from school and go to spend the afternoon and evening with the Chiba team. We will be meeting at Honda chapel for the meeting (the same place we had the cook-out last weekend), and then staying there for a pot-luck dinner. I suppose we'll be getting home pretty late...
While I was thinking of what to say next, my mind began to wander. It wandered in a hundred directions at once... One of my random thoughts was how much I need looseleaf paper. Being a home-schooler, I have always had a whole pack of paper in my notebook, and several more in my bookcase at any given time! For the past nearly 5 months I have had no looseleaf!!! My school shelf was never the neatest of all of my siblings... I have finally figured out why that was. I love paper. There's something very appealing about a blank stack of lined paper, and a red pen. (I don't know why it has to be red, it just does.) When I left home I still had a stash of spiral bound notebooks and a few packs of paper in my closet stored for a rainy day when I got the urge to write. ...Which is something I do on rainy days... Anyway! Enough of that random line of thinking. Most of my other ninety-nine directions were not worth mentioning. :)
I wish I could think of something important or profound to write. But for now I have explored pretty much all of my options. I have even talked about the weather already! :-/ I can say that it is very foggy/smoggy out today. It was the same yesterday too. I just finished a cup of cold coffee. I can remember a time when I thought cold coffee must be the most disgusting drink. But now I like it a lot.
I guess I'm a little lonely. I don't feel particularly homesick or anything, especially since I know I'm going to be seeing my family so soon, but deep down I feel an almost irrepressible...something...that I can't explain. Blogging lets me feel like I'm talking to someone back home. I've been doing a lot of thinking recently, but have come to no conclusions about anything... Except that I am in-communicably (is that a word?) happy about upcoming visits to and from my family!
After such a great day, I don't have anything to be down about!
I hope you all have a great night, don't work too hard, get plenty of exercise, and I'll let you know when I'm coming back! :) (sorry... an old reference to a favorite play.)
:) All my love,
Hannah
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