Sayonara

So, we are 6 days away from our grand adventure. We have sold all of our things, quit our jobs and researched the living hell out of our next destination. It has been my dream (Justine) to live in Asia for years and when Rob and I met, it became his dream too. When we were on our six week road trip honeymoon last year, we spent hours at an internet cafe, applying for teaching jobs all over Asia. I stumbled across one job, looking for a married couple to teach in Japan. We applied and went back to our hotel but neither of us could get the job out of our minds. We decided to call the recruiter in Japan and introduce ourselves. After a couple of very intense phone interviews and some sleepless nights, we woke up to a phone call whilst we were in Kalk Bay to find out that we had the job. We popped Champagne at about seven in the morning and phoned every human we knew to tell them. It was two days before Christmas, we were on honeymoon and we had just got the most amazing job lined up.

We get on our flight to Japan in six days and we are so incredibly excited. The tsunami, earthquake and nuclear situation has admittedly taken the edge off slightly. Some of our excitement has been replaced by nerves. When it all happened, a month ago today, I was pretty sure that we wouldn't be able to go to Japan anymore. After a lot of intense research on Fukishima, we have come to the conclusion that the media has definitely blown things out of proportion and although it is still a serious situation, it is not quite as serious as the news has made it out to be. All we can do is be cautious and aware of the situation whilst in Japan. Our colleagues over in Japan keep telling us how unbelievable the Japanese people are and how they are completely united through this crisis.

We are moving to a mountain town called Takayama which is up in the Japanese Alps. From the millions of photos we have looked at, it looks so incredibly beautiful.

I (Justine) have come down with terrible flu so I need to go rest. We will blog again closer to the time.

Au Revoir x