Stalker

Firstly, let me say I miss everyone at home sooooooo much!!!

Roomates here are o.k. but they're nothing like friends back home - I just don't click with them the same you know. One's canadian and the other american and well they are just so nice! and they draw out their vowels, so theywould say naaacccceee.

Mind you Jamie, (a guy I know from Hamilton) has arrived, so will be good to have another kiwi to catch up with - and someone who can UNDERSTAND ME!.

BUT this is how freaky a small world it is. he lives with a guy that I work with and THEN we were talking the other day and he said I would like this girl here who he just met - who it turns out I already KNEW! Weird huh! It is just too small a world - even in bloody japan!

oh yeah, then I had a stalker too. this girl pratically pounced on me like a leechy barnacle at orientation and another girl who I've since become friends with (Jeannie - American, great sense of humour) said she wanted to talk to me but the stalker (Sarah - kind of obsessive eyes and slightly verging on hysterical laugh) looked at her like 'bug off this is MY friend'. anyways then she watched me like a hawk coz she said we lived by each other and we could take the same train home and kept a sharp eye on me like I was gonna run away or something!

So then she suggested we had coffee and that was o.k. but then she asked when my days off were - different to hers thank god, so THEN she said she was gonna change hers " this is when the warning bells started!".

So she was aksing where I lived, but I said Oh I'll have to catch you tomorrow coz it was late and thankfully she lives at different train stop so she was like o.k. but we should hang out on day off and I said oh o.k. but I REALLY didn't want to!

I mean good god it was my only day off for two weeks - I wanted to SLEEP! But what do you know, she texts me FIRST THINHG on day off asking what I'm up to, then few hours later I get a text saying, she's caught the train to my station and am I home? WTF??!! So I went and locked the frontdoor.

I know it wasn't very friendly of fern, but I didn't really feel like I ever had a choice that we were going to be friends you know and I just wanted some time to come to grips with everything and settle in.

But others here seem REALLY keen to rush in and make friends straight away whereas I am more of the take my time to get to know you and slowly build a friendship school, I'm not in any hurry and was enjoying just taking everything in you know. There's so much to kind of get used to here first and I think if you click with someone you just will, it shouldn't be an effort huh?

Things aren't all bad here though. Just walked home from grocery store and bought a drink called Chu Hi there - I thought it was applejuice (sure tasted like it) but is 6% alcohol! so was nice and relaxed by time I got home! It was FANTASTIC! You wouldn't even know it was beer (well actually someone said it's vodka and apple, but you know i'm not complaining :).

God I miss weekends at the mount - have bought all my photos with me on CD and been getting all nostalgic for summer in NZ.

As for the chocolate here, the most similar I can find to home are Crunky bars (think that's there way of saying 'crunchie' :) Oh things are funny here, like when i was on the running machine at the gym the other night (the rules for the gym are enough for a BLOG of their own!).
So yes was on the runner and reading the instructions I see the word OPELATION. Hmm what does that mean I wonder? Is that something like Oscilation? THEN I realise they mean Operation only it's spelt the way Japanese people pronounce it!

Anyways, I'd better go. It's near midnight here - has been tough to get used to, but no one goes to bed till midnight here and then is up early again the next day - they are like robots I tell you!

I'm gonna come home an insomniac exhausted alcoholic I tell you! (the drinking helps me sleep :)

p.s. you didn't hear that grandma and grandpa! ...p.p.s I LOVE YOU :)