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Hello people...
Am back in Tokyo over a week now, and not a lot has happened. Well - that's not entirely true...
Have some new friends (as usual...) we now have Alex, a nice boy from Barcelona, via the US and Japan, and Kane, a New Zealander. And the dorm is also full of newbies, the majority of whom I have yet to meet. I'm not really in a mood to have the same conversation 15 times a night "Hi, I'm Conor, from Ireland, I study drama, Waseda University, about 6 months, my Japanese isn't amazing..."
So I've been out having fun instead. Well - I've been out, anyway.
The biggest news of all is that I bought an iPod shuffle. As a way of coping with my grief over the death of the pope.
This is me, out jogging with it yesterday. LOL
Rome was absolutely amazing. Cian, Roise and Hannah, thanks so much for such a fabulous time! We had posh dinners, saw beautiful art and architecture, were in St. Peter's with the rest of the gossip-vultures the night before the pope died, shopped for Ireland, met Andrew Moran for hilarious chats, ate our own weight in ice-cream and generally enjoyed La Dolce Vita on our Roman Holiday. Hurrah!
Since coming back to Tokyo I have been, on and off, in an incredibly foul mood, whose basis I cannot quite ascertain. It hovers between anger, gloom, misery, despair and blind rage, but I haven't quite been able to put my finger on it. Certainly I've been going through the wars emotionally, particularly with the arrival in Tokyo of a certain somebody's someone ELSE, but I think this whole thing is more of a growing pains kinda mood swing, of me doing the unthinkable and actually growing up a little and moving out of my romantic, romanticised imagination and realising that certain hopes and ideas that I have long clung to will never come to pass. And that that is probably going to be ok. Or something.
Anyway, gotta go - Jim is taking me, Ryan (the American who DJs our parties), and Caroline (the Malaysian who has apparently outed me to the entire dorm in my absence) out for dinner tonight at the Park Hyatt - home of "Lost in Translation". It's a buffet and all! We are celebrating the fact that Jim recently got his PhD AND a job in the civil service.
Talk to y'all soon...
Written by Conor
at 4:10 PM KDT
