Happy Egg Day!

No religious hullabaloo for me today, but a rather eventful Sunday nonetheless. Today, along with other JETs in Shimane prefecture, I performed the Vagina Monologues in Matsue City. Our version of V-Monologues pulled stories from A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, and a Prayer, a collection also edited by Eve Ensler. My reading was “Blueberry Hill” by Christine House. The turn out for the event was much smaller than the amount of effort put into the show, but the performances themselves went quite well. Though it’s never as apparent to people in the audience as it should be, a lot of heart goes into these voluntary productions. It injects you with a lot of spirit to be around these women and men on and backstage, whatever the turn out.

Tomorrow is closing ceremony at school. This marks the end of the academic year for students and for some of my teachers. After that, students move on to the next grade and some of the teachers get shuffled off to new schools. The yearly changeover of faculty is a bit strange for me to process, seems you can’t allow yourself to get too attached to working with any one instructor, but for now all I’m anticipating amongst the English sensei is one new person added to the current four. A woman as well, and the other four seem pretty excited. Should hopefully be a good year to come.

Tuesday marks the start of spring break. I’m headed back towards Osaka and Kyoto in hopes of finding sakura and exploring the more famously traditional parts of Japan. If I’m lucky, I’ll have lots of pretty pictures to upload later when I get back.

Spring is in full effect now. There are some chilly evenings, but overall, the weather is warm and the sunny days outnumber the rainy ones, so it’s kind of amazing to think that the eight month marker has past. Thoughts of California drift in my head often.. there’s so much going on these days. Weddings! Babies! Vaginas! (that is, for one particular OBY/GYN resident… ;)) I hope someone saves something for summer 2009.

Remember, summer 2009. It’s a good time, y’all. Plan your life changes for then.