OK, Enough is Enough

OK, whichever divine being is sending me those bats can stop now! I got 2 more bats today. It's going to suck my blood and I'm going to have to teach night classes. I'm not ready for that!

A bat sent from above

So last night, I had a really crappy day. I quit my brass band. As much as I love the arts, it really was a lot of work. So I felt terrible letting down about 30 people.

There were many reasons I quit. Another big one, is that I wasn't really making any new friends out of the experience. Everybody is really shy and it's hard to communicate to people when they're shy. So I considered it failure too.

So I sat in bed surrounded in my gloom wondering, "WHY am I Japan?!" I really wanted to go home last night. I wanted to go back where it was easy to communicate with people andpeople didn't view me as stupid.

After a rough day at work, I relaxed in my bed, surfing the internet. I look at my light fixture and I find out there's a bat sleeping on it! I ran out of my room, not screaming cause I was afraid I'd wake it up and all hell would break loose.

I knocked on my upstairs neighbor's door to see if I could get somebody to take care of this. She must've talked to about 5,000 other people before we got an old lady to come over. She came over witha partner and she had two giant nets with her...after explaining the problem and taking her to the bat, we finally got it out of my warm room and out into the freezing rain.

After looking back at this, I can't help but to think that this was serendipity. Somebody or something knew I was having troubles in the Land of Sunshine, so they sent this fuckin' bat to my room to brighten my day and bring a little laughter into my life. A chance to meet my neighbors, and use my poor Japanese to communicate with them, and have fun! So...don't worry. The kid is alright!