Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!
I can’t do ANYTHING right!!!
So… I made up with the girls, well, mostly. They still don’t really understand why I was so upset, but I think they understand a little bit. At least they seem to understand that Japan is a little different than the US. They didn’t even notice the dirty looks we were getting on the train! I guess they were too busy trolling me. Sigh.
And… yeah, it was a little funny. I saw one of the tiktoks some bystander posted and I can see why all the adults thought it was so hilarious. I was just sitting there looking a bit annoyed and there were 11 girls from like 10 to 17 all hovering around me and being… well… obnoxiously kawaii. It was the expression on my face… One of those tiktoks went kinda viral. Aww.
In fact so much so that I was on the train and some girl pointed at me and yelled “Douga kara onnanoko desu!!!”
Her mother blushed and shushed her, but I blushed too.
So now I’m famous in Japan. Thanks, girls.
And I will get them back. Every single one of them.
But, okay. It was funny, I guess.
But… now Jack’s a little upset.
Not about that – I showed him one of the tiktoks and I’ve never heard him laugh so hard. It’s hard to be upset with him though, it’s pretty funny IF YOU’RE NOT ME, but about the fact that I’m considering going to college in Japan.
He feels left behind.
I… I don’t blame him.
It’s perfectly fair of him to feel that way.
I don’t know how to solve this.
But I can’t imagine a life without him in it.
I told him that.
It seemed to help.
But he’s still not happy.
And I still don’t blame him.
We need to figure something out.
He said he doesn’t want to leave me or anything, in fact, that’s why he’s upset – he doesn’t want me to leave him.
He doesn’t understand. I wouldn’t leave him. I love him. I want him. I don’t want anyone else. But… I’m half Japanese. I have family here. I…. I don’t know what to do.
I told him we’ll talk about it when I get home, but not to worry, we’ll figure something out.
He… he told me he loves me and doesn’t want a life without me either.
Awwww.
Well, anyway. It was hot again today. It looks like the heat will start to abate a little – the day we leave. Isn’t that just how it goes. So we found something to do, and I told the girls to leave their anime school uniforms at the hotel.
They pouted a bit. They didn’t want to troll me anymore, but they thought they were cute!!!
Well.. yeah, they are, but enough’s enough.
We all took the shinkansen down to Osaka, I wanted to show everyone the Umeda sky tower. They were very impressed – and it’s impressive. Turns out Diana has a fear of heights and it was really hard to get her on the escalator. But she kind of enjoyed it too. I showed them the road going through the building. After we went down, we walked around a little until it got too hot, then we rode the train to Kyoto and saw some of the sights there. It’s a very historic place, it used to be the capital before they moved it to Edo, which became Tokyo. But it was pretty hot there too, and eventually we just hopped the train back. At least the train had air conditioning.
We sure picked a bad time to come to Japan, weather wise.
And there’s a typhoon hanging around too. Aww.
Oh well. Time for bed. If I were eighteen I’d send Jack a… photo present. But I’m not, so he’ll just have to use his imagination.
And yeah, I know Sabby, be responsible. I get it. But… he deserves something, doesn’t he?