Getting fond of this symbol. I've been in Jap...

Getting fond of this symbol. I've been in Japan just at a month now. I finally had that happy tears moment a week and a half ago. I went for a run along one of the rivers at night and passed some old women walking and some students leaving their clubs late. I didn't have a destination in mind. It was mundane and quiet and a little cold and the mosquitos were out but I was so unbearably happy in that moment. I don't expect a magic life here or anything "better" than Florida, I just am grateful to be here and to have good and bad days and boring days and exciting days. Being alive in general is nice. I miss people back in the states, but this physical place is already feeling like a home to me. The first month has flown by me. I leaned heavily on people back home the last month, and I hope I still can moving forward. Thanks for the patience as I am intermittent with replies and get days mixed up due to the difference in time. I wish I could just bring everyone here with me. In the last month I've been the benefactor of many strangers kindness, tore up a pair of shoes, leapt off the bus at the wrong stop and hoofed it to the station in the rain, and got comically splashed with water by a passing car (twice). And a lot of other things between. I hope I can still keep my head up in the months that are yet to come, and to still have people to lean on...familiar and otherwise.

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