English Dinner. Good Karma (and a sample of bad!)

I consider last night's English dinner to be highly successful. Cultural exchange in English is one of my missions and visions for everything that I do. I remember telling T when we first met that the reason why I'm here in Japan is because I want to make a difference using the method I know how. I want to help make this world a bit peaceful and better, in the hope that less people experience the discrimination that I had. My ex-fiance's mom telling me that she'll never accept me just because I'm a foreigner. The men in my previous and current company that think of women as second rate. T for rationalizing our differences because I'm a foreigner. Maybe I'm really meant to experience all of it, because I have the strength to get through them and the power to transform grief into joy. This is my life's purpose and I will go on to try to fulfill it.

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The mansion's admin had to do some 'construction' in my unit. I told them to do it today as I don't have any other time to give to them. I was a bit annoyed but took it as something that I could probably cause someday. So, today on a Japanese national holiday, I woke up at 6.30 am, cleaned the house a bit and waited for them to arrive. The doorbell, promptly at 9am signaled the start of a long waiting, not to mention noisy day. When I opened the door, I'm surprised to receive a big box of assorted cookies. The foreman bowed down low and apologized for the inconveniences. I told him its not necessary but humbly and happily accepted the gift. やった！ I never expected something out of today but with a little 'niceness', good karma does the trick. And I wouldn't want to mess up with the bad karma (on another personal note: i think T&Y had bad karma. Consider the odds of a very disastrous traffic, not to mention meeting a brave me in that ski resort..whew~ あなた達の運が悪いね。 I finally realized that I don't want to be dragged down to that very unlucky path).