THE FAR FAR AWAY OSAKA UNIVERSITY
April 5th 2009 10:47
Around this time I was excited by my new group but also irritated by them. In particular I was irritated by Natalie, who always found something wrong. She didn’t like cheap food or running underneath the rain and screaming. I like cheap food and running underneath the rain and screaming. She found out from our itineraries that my host family lived right next to hers, so she kept telling me,
“We’re going to live near each other and be best buddies, Dean.”
This worried me.
After buying a few souvenirs we packed our bags and checked out and caught a train to the small town where our University was supposed to be. It was a long walk; the last time I sweated that much was when Trevor and Takkun and I sprinted from the guy who pushed his cigarette into my face. I was hung over and ready to fall asleep and vomit in my sleep; the only thing that kept me going was everything around me: the winter, the people, the stores, the sounds, the plants - everything in the country was beautiful. One girl in our group, Lauren, decided to lead the way, apparently because she’d been in Japan before and was more fluent in Japanese than all of us. After about an hour she stopped. Tired, we all stopped behind her.
“Guess what? I’m lost.”
We sighed.
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Comment by Lady Henrietta Muddling
Potter in a Harry
a good read.