I’m home!

日本に戻って来ちゃいましたっ！

（一時帰国？！）

実は・・・

約２年半振り

再び日本の地を踏みました

しかし

その時点では

mikaの中でさまざまな思いがあり、葛藤があり、素直になれなかった

だから

誰にも帰国したことを言えなかった

久しぶりに戻って来た日本

いろいろ変わってた

たくさん変わり過ぎてた

そんな日本の生活に馴染めなかった

そして

しばらく　引きこもった。。。

いわゆる『燃え尽き症候群』だったのだろう

でも

自分自身で、自分が生まれ育った日本から隔離してて
このままではいけないと思って

とりあえず

ほとんど無一文での帰国になってしまったから「仕事」しないとなぁ〜って、悟った

思い立ったら、行動へ

このご時勢で、運良く、タイミングも良く、仕事が決まった！

決まったからには、仕事を通して、日本の生活にまた慣れるように頑張った

久々の平日フルタイムの仕事、人間関係に慣れるのが・・・
結構、キツかった。。。

そんなこんなで、しばらく経ったとき

友達からメールが・・・

そのメールがすごぉーーーっく嬉しかった♪
自分から、踏み出せないでいた”一歩”を大きく後押ししてくれたのだ
友達の存在の大きさを改めて実感した

結局

自分で作ったシェルターの中に閉じこもって
周りの人から自分自身を隔離して
一人で思いつめていたのかなぁ。。。

自分が貰った

周りの人からの

温かい気持ちや差し伸べてくれた手を

今度は

自分から

周りの人に

たくさんふりまこう

みんな　幸せになりますように・・・

こんな感じで

日本での生活を再スタートさせました

Happy New Year!!!

2009年　あけましたっ！

あけましておめでとうございます。
皆様、いかがお過ごしですか？
2009年もよろしくお願いします。

2008年5月末より、音信不通になり、申し訳ないです。
心配してくださった方、どこかで生きていると思っていた方
mikaを支えてくださっている皆様に感謝します！
そして、こんな私ですが、今後も変わらぬお付き合いを
よろしくお願いします。

good time

I went to vegetarian restaurant which my travel guide book recommend with Michael who is studying Spanish and same room with me at hostel.
I was super bored to stay at hostel.
It's still heavy raining, too. I didn't want to go out, but she invited me to go out for lunch.
So, I wanted to go to the restaurant, that's why we went to there.
That's excellent for vegetarian.
I couldn't pick what I should have had, because there were many kinds of good meals.
Anyway, we had a good time there for lunch.
She and I became to love this vegetarian restaurant.
She's going to stay in Santiago for 7 months for studying, so she said she would come to this restaurant again.
We recommended it to a guy.

rain, again

It's heavy rain again.
I didn't want to go out today, because I was tired, walked so much last few days.
I stayed at hostel all day.

By the way, I'd love to go to Isla de Pascua (Rapa Nui) , Easter Island.
I went to a few travel agencies due to get some information.
It's quite expensive to get there, and travel around Island to see statue of Moai.
I was thinking to go there, or not.
I've decided to not go there, because I can't spend much money it now.
I regret not going there. Hopefully I go there next time.

Chilean traditional

I went to Los Dominicos where there were many handicraft shops on foot.
I walked so much today, too.
It was too easy to get there, I just walked straight on one of big main streets.
However, it's very very far from my hostel.
I thought to be able to get there by foot, but I walked there over an and half hours, just walking.
Today was Sunday, almost shops on the both side of streets closed.
It's such a boring walking.
But, I saw many Chilean handicraft at Los Dominicos. It's interesting.
I enjoyed to watch it, even though I didn't buy anything.

And, I went to Mercado Central to eat some seafood.
Chile is famous for seafood and wine.
I had a grilled salmon and shellfish soup in Island of Chiloe.
I thought Canadian salmon was better than Chilean, that's good though.
I'd like to have a "congrio" , "anago" in Japanese.
Chilean congrio is bigger than Japanese one.
Congrio is usually fried or grilled , served with side order.
I had a grilled congrio. It tasted like a white fish.
It's yummy, yummy.

If you come in Chile, you should have it !!!!!!!

walk, walk, walk .....

I walked around Santiago centre of the old city and saw many historic building yesterday.
And, I went to Cerro San Cristobal on foot today.
I needed some exercise. haha...

Cerro San Cristobal is hill which is such a exercise place, there were many people who were jogging or biking.
It's a fine day today. So, I thought I could see superb the Andes views.
Unfortunately, I saw only shadow of the summit.
The sky was a blur in the smog which is a problem in Santiago.
The smog covered over city of Santiago, so the sky looked dusty.
I was disappointed I've not seen the Andes clearly.
I got to the top of the hill from Providencia, new city, on foot.
But we can get there by funicular, cable car, or by teleferico, ropeway.
There was a statue of the Virgin.

That's very good exercise for me.

Santiago

I got to Santiago from Puerto Montt this morning.
When I went to hostel, I had to take a metro.
Unfortunately, It's rush hour, so I couldn't take a metro for a while because I had a huge backpack.
There were no space I could take it.
Finally, I got to hostel by metro which was between old city and new city, so it's very convenient.
I can go to both city by foot.

I had a good free meal which was spaghetti and wine tonight for dinner.
It's event of hostel has some events on few days a week.
That hostel is really great stay for a long days, included breakfast and some events and so on.
I will stay at this hostel, I mean in Santiago, for a week.