here, there, everywhere

I'm waiting for Iain to finish showering so we can go to our official goodbye party - though there've been all manner of goodbye festivities with various classes and friends over the last couple of days, making this one seriously sad week. If all goes well, we will be on a shinkansen speeding towards Osaka this time tomorrow night so we can catch our early morning flight to Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday. We spent all day today frantically cleaning our apartment - the next teachers to take our job will live elsewhere, so there's ten years worth of detritus to sift through - and now that the place is scrubbed clean and less cluttered, it looks and feels just like it did when we arrived a year ago.

Anyway, I want to post more about Numazu and Japan and the people we were lucky enough to know while we were here, which I hopefully will - right now we are so insanely disgustingly busy and overwhelmed that all the the things I try to do have completely fallen by the wayside. But, three days from now, we'll be sitting on a beach, having arrived in much-loved, much-missed Vietnam exactly two years to the day after leaving it, tracing the same route backwards from Ho Chi Minh to Phu Quoc to Hanoi. So, more from Vietnam, soon, hopefully...