Hi! it’s me! Lily!!!
So we took the aidols to Houston today. It was bittersweet – they had a good time and they said they really liked spending time with all of us. The aidols hadn’t really hung around many gaijin and they like how expressive and warm we can be. They also think we’re a bit intimidating. Maybe we are. But they all gave us a hug before we went home, and I stopped in to say hi to Emiko and her family too for a little while.
I was looking through my old posts, and I feel a little sad. It’s funny how much I’ve changed in the past couple of years. I used to be so bright and cheerful and happy… I still am, but not in the same way. I’d bounce around the mall and just be happy… and now I’ve got stuff to do and things to think about and a rapidly approaching graduation that frankly scares me. And there were a few things that I talked about that I mentioned were going to happen and never talked about again. Like David learning a language, for example. I never told you how that turned out! Basically, he tried for a few weeks, got sullen, and Sabby just gave up. That was around the time she sent him to the summer camp too for the first time.
But they kind of gave up on trying to make me all mechanical too, so it all evens out. Even though I did rebuild that engine. I guess that was just a matter of necessity, though. The engine needed to be rebuilt, and it was a good learning experience. But I could say the same about David – he went to Japan and knew very little Japanese, and he could have learned a lot more!
I’ve written so much stuff here I’m compiling it into a kind of book! So there will be some changes here once that’s done. I’ll let you know how that turns out.
And I wonder when I’m going to stop posting here. I can’t do it forever. Eventually I’ll just have too much life.
Aww.
Maybe you’ll miss me.
Anyway… I’m tired. And a little lonely. It was nice having four girls sleeping in here every single day. They’d chatter or say “sharekoube” or just fall asleep and it was nice to hear them breathe. They mostly didn’t girl-pile but that’s okay. It was still nice having them here. I’ll miss them.
But onwards. There are a lot of things coming up. There’s the culture festival, and sports day, and… oh wait. This isn’t an anime. But there is a concert I need to prepare for, actually two, and then there’s Beth and the band, and applying to Meiji, and… and it was a nice holiday, but it’s over. Time to move on.