07-08-2011, 03:48 PM
I dreamt that I was a woman from Manhattan living in Tokyo. My daughter was with me, in the dream she was in fourth grade. She was staying at an American run boarding school and I was visiting her for the day. She was very smart and had done a project on crabs for which she received very good grades. My mother was there with me and we were holding a whispered conversation about the chairs. My mother wanted to lie on a sofa because it was hard for her to sit up, and I said that she should. She was shy, though, and didn't want to look silly.
The children were mostly Japanese and were sitting on the floor on a rush mat. Sensei was an American and was quite a good teacher. There were a few American kids and one was a loudmouthed bully. Sensei didn't like him and kept him under control. The classroom was completely quiet and so ordered! Such a contrast to Western classrooms!
My husband was not happy about us being in Tokyo. We had argued about it and he said, "Well in Tokyo, you just don't get those fresh breezes blowing up off the Hudson Bay, you know what I mean?" Actually, the air was very polluted, and humid as well, like a blanket of dense, toxic, probably radioactive mist that just hung in the air all the time.
I was working hard in Tokyo, that is why my daughter was in boarding school. Because of work,I couldn't just up and leave. I felt like I had no choice but to be there.
The children were mostly Japanese and were sitting on the floor on a rush mat. Sensei was an American and was quite a good teacher. There were a few American kids and one was a loudmouthed bully. Sensei didn't like him and kept him under control. The classroom was completely quiet and so ordered! Such a contrast to Western classrooms!
My husband was not happy about us being in Tokyo. We had argued about it and he said, "Well in Tokyo, you just don't get those fresh breezes blowing up off the Hudson Bay, you know what I mean?" Actually, the air was very polluted, and humid as well, like a blanket of dense, toxic, probably radioactive mist that just hung in the air all the time.
I was working hard in Tokyo, that is why my daughter was in boarding school. Because of work,I couldn't just up and leave. I felt like I had no choice but to be there.