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Hopefully the transition will go well. Mine started in June and it has had its curve balls. I wouldn't be surprised if they have us working remote again over the winter if numbers go up. They've made exceptions for people with kids right now, if they have to quarantine they can work remotely.
Sounds interesting. You'll have to keep us posted.
I'm so sorry for the loss of your aunt. Even if you didn't know her it's still family. It's good that you have a protective nature about your cousin and what she's been experiencing. I can definitely relate, and one of my friends to this day doesn't understand why people were so mean to me when I was nice.
That's understandable. You have so much going on right now and then this new relationship that is unfolding. In general I think of fall as only 3 weeks. But people were putting Halloween decorations out back in mid August. It's so strange. If you want to go from season to season with one thing some people have a fall tree they change into a Christmas tree and then a winter tree. But still that's more complicated than just a wreath. I started my summer decorations before summer came with a patriotic theme. I'm not ready to let go of Summer... I'm also thinking about some kind of combination without it being totally fall. At least for the interior. I've already put my pumpkins at Mum's out.
Praying that you will feel better.
Courtney is a generation ahead of me, being a younger cousin to my mother. So in that case, how do you define my relation to her kids Harrison and Chelsea, being of my gen though nearly twenty years younger? First cousins once removed, or something like that? 
Sorry my mistake. Maybe I miss read it. My heart goes out to you and your family that's affected.
Yes, it definitely can be. But one of my bullies came back years later as a friend and sister in christ. She asked for my forgiveness repeatedly and last year she made sure that I heard her out. Unfortunately back in June our friendship separated once again. This time over the vaccine. She got pushy and after months and months of pushing I pushed back that I didn't have time for all the information she was sending me. From what I know she has blocked me on social media and I pretty much have no contact with her now. We both had lived very similar lives with her upbringing, but she chose to take it out on others while I turned it inward.
Especially middle school. As a teacher in Japan I was shocked to see that the teasing and meanness is a worldwide thing. The class president was being very mean to a girl that was slower. My heart went out to her but I didn't know enough Japanese to be able to tell him to stop it. I kept my eye on her and tried to boost her esteem as much as I could by talking with her.. even with the language barrier. I think she saw me as many people did like a manga character since I had blue eyes. At least that's what one of my Japanese friends explain to me about people with different colored eyes oh Japanese see them. Especially in remote areas where it's mostly homogeneous society.
Blue eyes are a rarity among the Japanese citizenry?
yes there's all kinds of interesting things that you see in the culture that bullying goes into adulthood. Someone was telling me a story of a private school teacher that had a parent that was irate about something.. and the guy bowed to the lowest level asking for forgiveness. It's also interesting that students are not disciplined like they would be in the states. The island that I lived on they were like the 1950s.. it was very innocent. I once saw a group of teachers that took one student and made a circle around him in the church teachers room. They began yelling and screaming at him in Japanese to embarrass him of pulling the fire alarm. Another student out in the courtyard I saw slammed up against a wall by a teacher because he had been caught smoking. That was Junior high School. In the major city it's a different story where I heard of students attacking teachers, and one had a patch over his eye because of the damage of student did to him. But because the school likes to keep things hush hush there's no retaliation. Also disruptive students are never sent out in the hall or taken out of the classroom. They have rights to education so the teachers must put up with it. It's a very complex culture. Even domestic abuse I've been surprised, they turn a blind eye. One of my friends from college was with me at a train station North of Tokyo. It was near midnight, when most people probably have gone out for drinks, and my friend said look over there. I saw a boyfriend, young, hitting his girlfriend. I was surprised because it was so quiet. He went off to catch the train, she ran after him, he tried to push her away but she persisted to go with him. It was so surreal. And everyone at the train station didn't bat an eye. I've heard the same if a domestic dispute case is happening within the apartment complex, the neighbors will never report it. When I lived near a major city north of Tokyo, the first case of a murder instituted restraining orders in 1999. They are a community oriented culture so everything is for the greater good of the community. Which many times can mean turning a blind eye too many things that are wrong. Another example is homelessness. You're not allowed to look at the homeless person. They have a turban that they wear on their head to identify them.
Hahaha.
Yes. Even though most of their eyes are a brown color, they have no distinction between the color variations and they just call their eyes black. It's very strange. But they are obsessed with making eyes bigger.Blue eyes are a rarity among the Japanese citizenry?
Maybe they find it hard to relate. My siblings were Army brats, and many of my relatives have been in various armed services, but I've remained a civilian. There's a kind of certitude regarding how things are, or how the world should be, that comes with the military lifestyle. Especially in terms of the way things are structured. It's neither bad nor good, I suppose. It makes logistical and practical sense for managing national defense, and can have its own charm, but it can also seem a little odd to those of us in the private sector.
Praying that you will feel better.
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