Well, I'm currently in Sapporo. It is the only major city on the island of Hokkaido and it definitely took me a long time to get here yesterday. I left my house at 8:30am and arrived at the hotel around 3:30pm. It was a long train ride, but a beautiful train ride, the same one I took on my way to Shibecha a little over 3 weeks ago. It's the first time I've been to Sapporo, but it's a nice-sized city. It's not overwhelmingly large like Tokyo (or "ubertropolis" as they call it) but it's definitely larger than Kushiro (the town 40 minutes south of me).
I have internet in the hotel, and my own room, so I've been able to Skype people...WOOHOO! It's kind of amazing.
My friends and I found an import store yesterday. I bought the most expensive tortillas ever. No joke. It almost defeats the point of eating/making Mexican food. I bought 10 flour tortillas for about $5 (flour tortillas...$5!!!)! That's $0.50 for a tortilla (and that could change with the exchange rate!). Taco Wednesdays at Tacos El Unico have tacos for $0.75...and those have meat! These will probably be the expensive tacos I will ever make/eat.
On a brighter note, it is nice to see other females. I have desperately longed for some female companionship the last 3 weeks, and it's been nice just to share meals with other native English-speaking females. I've gotten used to hanging out with the two male JETs from Shiranuka, but there's nothing like going out with a bunch of the girls and just laughing.
I think my sorority definitely forced me to appreciate female friendship...and I think I took it for granted. I miss having sisters around. But I think what I miss the most is intentional and deep conversations. Fellowship. Real fellowship. I miss sisters caring about the answer to the question, "How are you?". I miss sisters hugging me just because they can and they know it'll encourage me (no matter how much I'm grimacing at the time). I miss sisters to pray with me and to pray for me. But I especially miss sisters to sit with me in silence. I miss having sisters who are comfortable with the uncomfortable silence. I miss sisters to worship God with me.
God definitely blessed me with that sisterhood and the chance to experience intense fellowship while I was in college. And I think I put God in second place compared to the relationships He had blessed me with. So now I have a chance to intimately meet God again and to let Him be King again. I've been called to a season of just me-and-God. And it's been awesome. Don't get me wrong--I miss my sisters, I miss my friends, I miss my family. But none of that even come close to how much I've missed my Jesus.
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