With just over a month left before I am due to leave Japan for good, I want to take a moment to think about all of the things I will miss (and the things I won't!) about living in this country...
Things I'll Miss
- nomihodai (a timed, all-you-can-drink option at bars and restaurants)
- tuna mayo onigiri (rice balls with tuna on the inside and seaweed wrapped around the outside)
- cheap alcohol and cigarettes
- purikura photo booths
- my apartment
- travelling all the time
- my students
- my mechanics
- convenience stores on every corner
- vending machines
- cash on delivery internet shopping
- green tea flavoured things (chocolate, lattes, ice-cream etc)
- how safe it is (you can leave doors unlocked, handbags unattended, carry large sums of cash and walk home alone at night with no problems)
Things I Won't Miss
- tiny cars, shitty roads and bad drivers
- not being able to read anything
- not being able to express myself fully
- expensive fruit and veg
- getting paid monthly
- giant bugs
- living in the countryside
- ATMs that close
- the humidity of summer and the snowfall in winter
- crazy Engrish
- the isolation that comes with the job
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