... was difficult. Yesterday morning, my host mom told me that I was changing host families today. Short notice much? I had no idea and had only one day to prepare and pack my life into two suitcases, one kendo equipment bag, a violin case, and a paper shopping bag. I'm going to the Horiuchis. Mr. Horiuchi is a Rotarian and was one of the people who met me at the airport when I first arrived back in August. I'll be taking the bus to school, or maybe even the train. I'll be 15 minutes from Lalaka, my Rotary counselor who's really cool.
This morning, we all saw Josefa off at the train station. She is going back home to Chile today. I went with Fuyu, Addison, Laurent, Shaki, Kei, Sakiko Maria, and some other random people showed up that I don't know. It was so difficult. We went onto the platform to see her off (she took a bullet train to Tokyo, from there she will go to the airport and then home) and it was so sad. The doors of the bullet train closed and it pulled away from the station and we were running after it and then the loudspeaker said "Please don't run." And then me, Fuyu, Addison, Laurent, and Shaki (I don't know where everyone else went) were just standing there in a daze watching the train go off into the distance and we all just started crying. We just sat down right on the platform and didn't say anything for like 15 mins because we were so upset. I had been planning on going to church right after, but it was too late and I was really in no mood to do anything. Then we got ourselves back on our feet and had like 40 million group hugs. Shaki had to leave because her host family is annoying, but the rest of us had Indian food for lunch. I had to leave early because I'm changing host families in 45 minutes. But one good thing, I've been collecting coins for the past 6 months and I deposited them all in my postal savings account and it was like 3500 yen! Which is like $35 so I'm really excited cuz I GOT MONEY IN THE BANK (shawty, whatchu think about that, find me in the big cadillac...)
Btw, the new greatest song ever is Chris Brown's With You. Which is different from the just quoted "Buy you a drank" which was the world's greatest song like last summer.
But I miss Josefa so much already, like she did so much for me. She was always so hilarious, so unique, but she knew when to be serious and how to listen when somebody wanted to be listened to. I'll never forget singing La Bamba for the little high school students with her, or going to the Kimochi place, or eating ramen and gyooza on Christmas Eve, or telling high school students to "Ganbare," or the first time we met at her school, or her always singing "Lo que paso paso" at the top or her lungs, or her laugh, or going to McD's with her, or her orange scarf, or like everything. Bon Voyage and Sayonara, Jose-chan! Until we meet again!!!!!!
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