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Well its been a pretty easy going time since the last post. My arm is almost fully healed and the nursery work is abit more fun (sometimes).

The main news is that Maggie Powell (the GAP representative) came to Nohgata last wednesday with David Busk to check up on my progress and sort a few things out. She pretty much left the issue of Yukari out as she said that it is not their responsiblilty to be concerned with that as I am 19, so it is my own private buisness (I wish the nursery saw my life like that).　But I was told that the nursery weren`t happy that I turn offers down from parents, which according to them made it seem as though I had millions of offers, but the only offer I have got was from one of the parents for the golden week, which I turned down because I had another place to go with another family. So alot of what was said was an emphasised version of what really happens, so for most situations there was a 2 sided story, but David Busk said that, that the Japanese will have a tendency to see things worse then they really are. At the end of the talk I decided to ask about what would happen if I decided to leave the nursery and either go back to England or stay in Japan for the rest of my stay and she seemed to take the issue more calmly than I expected. She said that I wouldn`t be assoiated with GAP anymore so they would take away their responsibiliity and that it wouldn`t look very good on my CV. She also said that it would be extremely hard to find an apartment for a foreigner without a job and I wouldn`t be accepted well with the Japanese culture (something along those lines). But the apartment issue is almost sorted, because I know an available apartment in Muromi which isn`t too expensive and I`ve been told I can move in in June, so next saturday June 4th I am going to take a look at the apartment with one of my Japanese friends (Manami) and speak to the other people that share it (its shared with 4 people with a living room, dining room and kitchen).

I have almost certainly decided that I will leave by July at the latest, but what my plan is, is to stay until the 16th of July (which is when the nursery finshes), as apparently they don`t know what I will be doing after that anyway. Although that depends on what happens when I tell them I am leaving, which I will nearing the end of June, and although I plan to see Yukari, when she arrives back to Japan on July 8th, so I will need the day off then and I plan to spend my birthday with her and my friends, so I will see what they say and either leave on the 16th as planned or 1 or 2 weeks prior. I am really looking forward to leaving because everything here seems to be abit boring, with no-one to talk to and doing pretty much the same things in and out of work, also it will give me the chance to work more on doing practice design for University, because I don`t think I have benifited much for my work in the time that I have been here, because by the end of the day I am too tired and there is too much to do, with cleaning and all I want to do is to read, go to the gym (although I can`t at the moment because I have no money to get a new pass) and learn the piano. I`m not trying to justify why I am leaving, but to me I feel I will benefit more from it. I know thing would have been different if I didn`t get a girlfriend, but I am much more happier with than without and although at the moment she is in America I am still happy knowing that she will be back in July and I will live much closer to her without the restrictions of the nursery or the church.

The money issue is the only thing I am worried about. I am not sure of the exact amount I have in England, so I am trying to save every yen I can. The apartment is going to be 90,000yen total for the 2 months (about 450 pound) and then I have to buy food and travel expenses and entertainment and my flight back to Tokyo, so i`m looking at quite alot of money, but I am going to get a part time job when I get back to England and work as much as I can without taking up study time, so that I can pay off any money I owe and so I can save up to see Yukari in Japan, or England or another country.

Tonight im going to the church in Tobata, or somewhere like that (I went there about a month ago) to see some people and stay for the night. So I gotta get my stuff ready and sort out my washing because its partly drying. I hate washing day.