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Application cover letter

10:42am JST Wednesday 02 March 2005

Special thanks to Fred and Reese for helping me write my cover letter!

Working as an English teacher in Japan, I see how big the world is and
how much potential we have for good. I would like to continue the
volunteer work I did in the United States to help the world become an
even better and safer place to live.

Before coming to Japan, I volunteered weekly in the youth program at
my church. The youth program promotes an atmosphere where everyone,
regardless of creed, race, or religion is allowed to come together,
forming a healthy respectful community based on common sense and
humanitarianism.

To this end, we had conferences around the southwest United States
twelve times per year. At each conference, we participated in an
exciting social action activity. These included planting trees,
picking up litter around neighborhoods, revitalizing neglected
neighborhoods, volunteering in women's shelters, rebuilding homes,
making lunches and delivering them to elderly, collecting canned food
for Food Bank, writing to our political leaders and countless others.

We also invited people to give seminars at our conferences. These
included anti-racism, personal health, ethical treatment of animals,
freedom of speech, distribution of wealth and power, among others.

P To Da B activities remind me of the volunteer work I enjoy doing. I
was ecstatic when I found P To Da B does these things around the
world!

I look forward to helping P To Da B promote this type of work on a
world wide scale. Thank you for selecting me to volunteer on the 49th
Global Voyage aboard P To Da B.

Apply for

10:41am JST Wednesday 02 March 2005

I'm really balking on applying for P_B again, but I remember realllly wanting to do it when I saw the pictures at Hitomi's friend's house in Osaka.

The application is due Friday. Okay, go!

Today

6:00pm JST Wednesday 02 March 2005

Today I've finished 4 of the 6 things I need to finish for my P To Da B application. Silly me for waiting to the last minute. I'll have to hand deliver everything tomorrow.

Going to meet Satoko soon to hang out.

zzzzz

2:26am JST Thursday 03 March 2005

I asked Hitomi not to call me after midnight.

She called me at 11:52pm.

We talked for 15 minutes and then we hung up and she called me again. Now, granted I had said "yes" to whatever it was she said when we hung up the first time. She took it to mean that she had permission to call me back. I turned off my phone and then realized that I wasn't being direct with her so I turned it back on. If she called me again, I would tell her that I didn't want to talk to her.

She called back, I told her, but I had to ask/tell/plead with her to get her to say bye. For some reason I wouldn't just hang up on her. What is going on here?

I was really mad so I wrote an email like, "Don't call me anymore. Don't email my phone anymore. I don't want to see you anymore," etc.

As I was finishing the email (and realizing I shouldn't send it) Ikumi knocked on my door; she had printed the P To Da B applications and stuff that I wrote today. I had her read my email and we changed it a lot. It's not what I would have written (obviously), but includes a lot of Ikumi's suggestions.

Hitomi

When you are not jealous, I like you.  You are a good person, and I
will miss you when I leave Japan.  But when you are jealous I don't
like to talk to you.

- - - - -

When we talked about what it means to have a real relationship, we said

1) be nice to each other
2) be respectful of each other
3) wasureta

but tonight I did not feel respected by you.  After I say no, please
don't ask the same question again.  It makes me feel sad to tell you
no again.

Even if I don't have time to meet you, I still like you.

- - - -

Tomorrow I will bring your muffler to Starbucks in Shibuya.  If you
want to meet me, I will give it to you.  We can study in Shibuya if
you would like to.  If you don't want to meet me, I will give it to
you later.  I want to sleep alone tomorrow.

        See you
        - Rob

I'm falling asleep.

Dan is here for the night and will be here tomorrow night, so the last sentence is almost a lie, but though it's true, I'm still letting Dan sleep here, but not letting Hitomi do the same. My room; my choice.

I showed Dan the train cards I've collected for him since he's been gone; the pile grew quite substantially while Hitomi and I were in Sapporo.

Dan and I laughed a lot. Nice.

Oh, tonight also I hung out with Satoko; we watched Kill Bill uabwmaah.

uabwmaah is a code I used in my journal when I sat under a blanket with my arm around her, where her = Maggie, back in college days when I was with Tammy.