today has been relatively uneventful. my afternoon class was cancelled so i was able to stay home and clean the apartment completely. this, in turn, allows me to leave for tokyo tomorrow around the time that sonny goes to work. that will give me more time to find my way to the leasing office, the bank where i am to make a new account, and then on to our little room in ota before rush hour hits. i'm a bit nervous about traveling with the two suitcases i plan to take...oh well. it will work out.

since we weren't able to get an apartment in time for this move, we went for the "share house" option in which we rent a room and share the bathroom/shower and kitchen with the rest of the house. in our case there are three other bedrooms, all able to house up to two people each. the shared aspects consist of two toilets, one shower and a rather spacious kitchen/living area. the website says there are "dishes" available.  

                                     

i'm really curious about the general atmosphere of the house. the company we chose to do business with doesn't rent to japanese people. so that eliminates one kind of people i know how to interact with. and leaves a gabajilian possibilities! the range is too huge to try to even begin to imagine scenarios and possible interactions. Chinese? Canadian? Italian? Will we even be able to communicate?  there's always the possibility that everyone is so busy with their lives that there is no interaction at all.

then there is the tricky business of scheduling showers.

sonny will be following in a few days so i will be alone for the initial jaunt into sharing-world. This is my least favorite part of this adventure. he is my defuser, my look-at-bright-side-half in every kind of situation, my it-could-be-so-much-worse grounder when i can't get a grip. besides that, he's just my favorite person in the whole world and it'll be the first time we're not together overnight since we were married.

despite all the unknown things surrounding our move (and the sadness of being away from the other half of my heart for a few days), i am excited. i am ready for some change.

Come visit us any time.


                                           

i'm moving to tokyo in two days. i thought i should write about it.

sonny and i will be living in temporary housing for a month while we wait to see what god does to provide a job for sonny and a permanent place for us to live.

i start training for my new job on thursday. i bought a new suit for the occasion. my shirts are ironed and i have a notebook. i have no idea what to expect.

i've been super discouraged that sonny still doesn't have a job. my heart has been heavy. i'm reading through joshua like i do at this time of year. this time around i've been struck by how the israelites had a war cry within their hearts. one that was to be kept inside until it was time to let it out. we all have a war cry. sometimes it gets silenced by disappointment and things not going like we think they should.

my prayer is that my cry will be kept alive and loud within me until it is time for it to be released. i can only imagine how it must have felt to walk in silence around a thick wall trusting that it would indeed fall.

i'm now going to enjoy the storm roaring outside while i wait for my beloved to get home.