JAPAN: am I actually here?

Yazawa Michiko came to greet me in the Kansai Japanese Language Institute.

"Who am I?" I asked pointing at the shining plastic ID card they gave me in the front desk. My Japanese reading and writing skills have now probably reached their bottom level as I stopped with my studies two years ago.

"You are a researcher," said Yazawa-sensei.

And this is how I stopped being a traveller.

So what if I woke up in Kyoto`s park in a tent hidden between the bushes the same morning. In the evening I put away my backpack under M y B e d that had literally a golden cover.I looked out of the window of my room on the 13th floor and saw the Pacific Ocean. I started a comfortable life without any other worries than my research. Four months is it a long time or a short time?

I think of Sue, and can not help the feeling to have betrayed her.