Daddy's daughter (J)

I decided to go to the UK.
July 1 to 10.

I've been going back and forth on this one for the past week, and finally decided. Now I think it was a good decision.

Dad sounded so down on the phone last week, maybe Jane's condition isn't getting any better and he is beginning to realize quite how bad she is and how long this could all go on for. She still can't eat normally and she's only been up and sitting in a chair once.

I will go and keep him company on the daily hospital visits, help him cook and shop. Just hang out.

Now I have to find substitute teachers to cover my classes at the NHK community school classes. My own classroom I can just close for 10 days. But the NHK classes I have to find cover. And I have to apologise to the managers for doing this again.

But my visit will give Dad a big lift. I'm an only child and he doesn't have any family apart from me. My step-mum has a big family. But Dad only has me.

Here in Sapporo all is well.
Yujiro got one night of food poisoning from something he ate on Friday night: we decided it must have been the dried fish he had as beer snacks. Okaasan bought these, but she had forgotten them in a bag on the carpet near her heater for we-don't-know-how-long...and maybe the fish had gone bad!
Poisoned by your own mother..,poor guy!

２００９年６月２１日（日）

父の娘 

７月1日から10日までイギリスに行くことにしたわ。 

ここ一週間このことで揺れ動いていて、やっと決めたわ。今ワタシはこれが英断だったと思うの。 

先週電話で父はかなり落ち込んでいるようだったわ。たぶんジェーンの状態が何もよくならず、彼女がいかに悪いか、この状態がいかに長く続くかに気づき始めたのね。彼女はまだ普通に食べることができないし、一度起き上がって椅子に座ったことがあるだけなのよ。 

ワタシは行って父の毎日の病院通いに付き合ったり、料理や買い物を手伝うの。ただブラブラ過ごすわ。 

これからNHK文化教室の授業のワタシのクラスの代わりの先生を見つけなくっちゃ。ワタシの学校は１０日間閉めることができるわ。でもNHKのクラスは代替を見つけなければ。そして管理側にまたこんなことをすることを謝らなければね。 

でもワタシの訪問は父をとても元気づけるでしょうね。ワタシは一人っ子で、父はワタシのほかに家族がいないの。継母は大家族なのよ。でも、父にはワタシだけ。 

こちら札幌ではすべてがうまくいっているわ。

ユウは金曜の夜に食べた何かで食中毒の一夜を過ごしたの：彼がビールのおつまみに食べた魚の干物に違いないって確信したわ。お義母さんが買ったけど、ヒーター近くのカーペットの上のバッグに入れたまま忘れていたの。どれだけの間かは知らないわ・・・それでたぶん傷んでしまったのね！

実の母親に食中毒にされたのよ・・・、かわいそうなひと！