Well Ayuko leaves for Tokyo tomorrow while I leave for Hamamatsu to finally start my training. Both of us have been packing today, her more than me, as I mistakenly gave myself an extra day after I come back from the training before I move into my new apartment. However it is kinda nice as I don't have to stress about being completely packed before I leave for training, but I still am going through all of the papers and junk I have collected in the past year or so in order to get a head start. The nice thing is the only stuff I really have to move are clothes, so packing won't be much of a hassle. I'm also using this as a chance to finally update my wardrobe, so I'm giving away/donating/throwing away about a third to half of my clothes. Japanese fashion is fairly different than western fashion as I've mentioned before, so this will finally let me buy some new clothes for the coming summer and maybe get some good deals on some winter clothes.

Ayuko and I both have mixed feelings about moving apart from each other, but both of us are excited to be starting new lives in new cities. She has a lot of friends who already live in Tokyo or are moving there now, so she won't have to worry about starting from scratch. However she is also going to be extremely busy, so that kinda offsets knowing people. While I don't know anyone in Kyoto I have the advantage of having a seemingly easy workload with a lot of free time with weekends and school holidays off. So hard to say, but off to some more room cleaning for now.