ごめん。。。

Hey, sorry for not updating for the past few weeks. Lately I’ve been, if not the whole class, in a slump and we’re all feeling down from the lack of morale. As some of you know, recently I’ve been dealing with Eczema. It’s a nasty bugger and I’m starting to lose patience and morale from trying to heal my skin. It’s a pain trying to stop the itch. Whenever I stop an eczema spot on one part of my skin, it appears somewhere else. I’m beginning to think it’s a food allergy and stress combined. Over golden week, which was a couple of weeks back, I started to break out after eating something, I can’t remember what. After we got back from Golden week we had an exam on Thursday, and then a huge exam on Friday. After Friday’s exam, my skin just broke out from the stress. Since golden week, I’ve been fighting the eczema. I was able to bring it under control on my arms, but it just keeps reappearing and it doesn’t want to go away. I’ve taken so many measures trying to stop spread.

Here are some of the methods I’ve taken:
1) Keeping a food diary
2) Went on a cleaning spree in my room to remove any dust particles
3) Trying to eat healthier
4) Drinking more water
5) Buying medication
6) SEARCHING for moisturizing lotion like Aveeno or cortizone, but it’s not hard to find hair products FOR MEN here in Japan…

It’s really difficult for me to go to the doctor’s because they don’t speak english, and sometimes I don’t know the medical terms needed. Things are just not going my way. I went to the medical office on campus, but they immediately referred me to another doctor off-campus. The doctors I can communicate with at school, because they know English, pretty much refused to take me as a patient. There goes my tuition money for Japan. I pay them to tell me to go to another doctor in town. ::SIGH::

So as you can see I’m feeling down from morale, getting more stressed because of my lack of knowledge with Japanese and not being able to communicate my issue clearly. On top of that, I’m beginning to feel homesick, but they say what doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger. Anyways, here are some pictures from Monkey park. I will update more probably soon. Sorry if this was more of a rant, but hey this is my experience here in Japan. Unfortunately, now it’s an unpleasant one.

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