前のエントリーを見たら、なんと一年以上もこのブログを更新していないみたいです。長い間何も書かなくてすみませんでした。今年からもっと定期的に書くつもりです。
この前の日曜日に東京から戻って来たばかりです。出来れば、毎年お正月は日本で過ごしたいですね。日本で親戚と友人に会うのが良かったけど、今回は前回とは気持ちがちょっと違いました。ロスに移してからもう三年間がたちました。最初の方はお正月休みに日本に戻ったら、自分の家に戻っている気持ちでした。でも今回はどちらかと言えば懐かしい過去の場所に尋ねている感じでした。とは言いながら、ロスに戻るのも別に家に帰って来ている気持ちもあまりありません。実は日本に住み始めた頃もよく朝に目覚めた時に自分がどこにいるか何でそこにいるかが今一信じられませんでした。まあ、そう言う性格だという事ですね。
今回の写真はクリスマスにきた嵐です。クリスマス休みをボストンに過ごしたら大変な事になりました。大雪のせいで飛行機に乗れない可能性もあって、日本でお正月が過ごせないと思いました。結局は大丈夫だったけど、ちょっと危なかったです。久しぶりに雪を見るのが良かったけど、もうこれで一年分ですね。
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So looking over my past comments, I see that it has been over a year since I last updated this blog. My apologies to those that have been checking in over the past year and not finding anything new. I hope to renew my efforts to add something regularly in the future.
This past weekend I just returned from my trip to Tokyo for the New Year's holiday. It is always nice to head back to Tokyo to see family and friends, but I will say that now that it has been three years since moving to LA it does feel a bit different. I distinctly remember the first year that I went back, seeing Narita airport and the view outside the window of the Narita Express made me feel like I was home again. This time, while it was nice being back, it definitely felt more like visiting a familiar place from the past. By comparison, coming back to LA doesn't necessarily feel like coming home either, but then I remember that for the first several years I was living in Japan I would wake up and have to remind myself where I was and what I was doing there. I guess it just takes a while for me to really feel like a new place is my home.
The picture is from the Christmas storm that hit Boston while I was out there for Christmas. It almost caused me to miss my flight back to LA, which then would have prevented me from going to Tokyo for New Year's. It is nice to have a white Christmas, but I think I got my year's fill of snow now.