Election time in Japan

Those of you who didn’t support Obama can close your ears for a minute while I yell Hurrah!

I was thrilled about the election out come and have see Obama's speech on line, and read it as well. It was inspiring. It’s going to take a lot of work to turn things around, clearly he is aware of that too, and thus asked for all Americans to get ready to help the nation. In the news I see that people all over the world are expecting a lot of him, too. No wonder he looked so tired as the weight of it all landed on his shoulders. He was generous to his opponents as well I thought.

Here in Japan it was a little lonely, as I only have one American friend who clearly supported Obama and cared about the election. All others were either Republicans or just didn't care, mostly the latter! So I haven't had the fun of jumping up and down with some one yelling, “We did it!!!”.

School continues to challenge me and with the other commitments I've made, I am very busy. My friend who was going to come here at New Years and travel with me is not coming, so I am making plans to travel a bit on my own as I'm dying to go to some of these places I have only seen in pictures. That was a big disappointment, but it will be a good challenge and I plan to spend 5 days in Okinawa with Japanese friends which will be a lot be fun. But truthfully, it's a bit lonesome to be contemplating the holidays away from my family.

Well, I better get back to studying. I had two quizzes today and failed one, and I have two quizzes tomorrow, so I better get in gear. Last night I just couldn't study with all the election stuff!

I’m including some pictures of Okazaki Castle Park and a flower show that was in progress there. As you can see, the fall colors haven’t really gotten going here yet.