The Journel Part 2

11th November






I realised last night when I finished writing this (on good old fashioned paper) that it wasn’t going out to the “many eyes of the web” and essentially it was now just my personal diary.
After the seminars we were waiting for our host families to show up so we could meet them for the first time. I watched as everyone was called up to meet their families until it was just me, the German lad Oke and the Canadian girl Melissa whose host mother was organising the seminmars and thus already present.






It felt even more like an adoption home than ever (I wish I had never made that joke). I began to slip back into my pre-Japan feelings of uneasiness that I had kept so well hidden. Japan really brought something out in me. I felt unshakeable and confident, but after just 2 days in the company of westerners I was beginning to have doubts. It didn’t help that my placement was something of a unique issue not just because I would be doing horticulture but also because I wouldn’t have a host familiy as such. I was to be living on site in a bunkhouse with other exchange workers.






Many Agriventure representatives apologised that it was rushed and a little unusual, but I just kept thinking about japan and tried to regain some of those feelings that had made me unflappable and strong.






Eventually Phillip, the General manager of the Nursery, showed up just before lunch was served and finally some of my questions about the next 6 months of my life were answered.
I find myself in a bit of a strange place at the moment there are so many ropes being pulled in opposite ways now… I don’t care if that doesn’t make sense and I don’t know if I am missing the public posting, or any of the internet for that matter.

The Canadians

"The drinking quartet"

IAEA Trainees 07 - 08