Return to Japan

I had a most amazingly wonderful Christmas back at home. It was really good to see Hannah, my parents, my sister, and some of my friends again. The food was also excellent: I had two roast turkey meals and three roast chicken ones in the space of two weeks. I spent some time feeling rather ill after stuffing my face too much, but I think it was worth it!

The journey back was a long and arduous one, and I returned to Cambridge House 19 hours after leaving my house. I watched only one film on the plane: "Rebound", but I did about 20 sudoku, some in the dark.

My first plane was 50 minutes leaving, so at the Osaka I rushed to make sure I caught my connection. Upon first coming to Japan we had to queue for about 30 minutes as we were foreigners, but I was overwhelmed with relief when I realised that I could walk straight up to the desk for Japanese people since I had a reentry permit. I know it's a bit strange to have felt like that, but I was pretty tired. This journey also marks my first tackling of an airport on my own!

Back at Cambridge House I found a new frog keyring on my set of keys: from where I don't know. There were some pieces of calligraphy under my door from when we went to Ciaran's family's friends' house. Also Drummond returned a few hours after me bearing gifts of "I love NY" t-shirts that we're all going to wear tomorrow.