Earning Yen, Honest Strangers, and Bald Spots

Final exams are this week at Kidz Talk (my school), so I made 8 exams and am giving 130 oral tests to the kids. They are doing great, and suprising me with how much they've learned! The new school year starts in April, so we have new students coming in soon. I love my job...it's soooo fun!

Brad is crazy busy with personal training! Several days a week, he's off to Tokyo before I wake up, and comes back after 10pm! He's found all the rich expat mommies who all know eachother, and the referrals are just flowing!

Interesting news:
*I left my wallet (cash only) in a taxi that dropped me off in front of my apartment building. An hour later, after mourning the loss of my $70 cash, the taxi driver rang my doorbell! He'd knocked on every door in the building looking for me!

*I got caught up in all the war talks and debates and was watching too much news (we watch American news, via internet), and I got a bit stressed out. I didn't realize it, though, until I found that I had a quarter-sized bald spot on the top of my head! Turns out I got alopecia areata (baldness in spots), a very common disease (especially in Japan) usually caused by emotional stress. Stress is just our body's reaction to change, and change can be positive, too, of course...it just affects us! I'm loving all the positive changes Japan has brought to my life these past 6 months! Anyway, I'm de-stressed and the hair is coming in fast. Ha! I thought this was the funniest thing that's ever happened to me!

Love you all! Peace and love in our minds and hearts!!! xoxoxxo Rebecca "BEX"

"Every moment of our life can the beginning of great things." -Juan Mascaro