Day 2 Kawaguchi and Sharing

hello dear, how are you? hello from Lake Kawaguchi :)

After a long day of travelling (flight and then 3 hours of driving), we finally arrived at Lake Kawaguchi late last night. I was soo tired that I passed out immediately when I got on my bed because travelling long distance with parents is really extra energy consuming. Thankfully I feel much better today after an ok night of sleep last night.

It’s actually my third time visiting mount fuji, but it’s been a while. The first time was with my dad many years ago, and then I came here with Nicole in 2019. I was a bit worried about the weather this time because it’s still a bit cold for my dad, and also forecast said it’s gonna be cloudy, but turns out it wasn’t too bad, and we had a pretty nice day out here near by mount fuji :)

And I finally have some refreshing photos of myself for you :) sorry if they aren’t very nice though 😅 my brother tried his best, and I guess I am just getting older 🙈 or maybe these photos would look nicer if they were taken by you :)

I also wanted to share with you something else. Recently I have started chatting with a guy from church. I actually first met him at the bible museum visit that our care group went together a month ago. He isn’t part of our care group but he was invited by another person. We actually didn’t talk at all that day, until two weeks ago I did that siumai fundraising sale at church, he came up to me and said I looked so cool that day driving in with my 86 (😅), and asked for my instagram to chat more about cars. I felt a bit odd to be complimented that way, but he gave me a nice vibe so I gave him my ig, and that was when we started chatting.

As we chat, to my surprise, we share so much in common in terms of background and interests. He studied in the London before as well, and his parents moved to London after retiring for the last fee years (like my parents), so he also travels back and forth HK and the UK. He is a car and plane nerd, he loves sunset, beaches, and driving to places like Shek O and Stanley like me. He is a serious Christian like me too, and seems to genuinely like deeper conversations. So it’s like we got endless things to chat about from hobbies to our parents and our faith. Sometime we would reply each other with 20+ messages because there’s too much to say 😅

So far, I really enjoy chatting with him over text. He sounds interesting but at the same time genuine and thoughtful. He doesn’t reply me instantly all the time, but when he replies, it’s always very detailed and with quality. And sometimes when he can’t reply me yet with long messages, he would even drop me a message saying he’ll reply me later (haha 🙈).

I don’t know how to describe it, it’s kinda scary but It’s like there’s a magnet between us, and we can’t stop exchanging about ourselves even though we haven’t actually chatted face to face properly so far, and we are already so comfortable with each other. He actually asked if I wanted to meet this Sunday after church, but because I’ll still be in Japan, we said we’ll meet next Sunday instead if my checkup goes well and I can be discharged on Saturday.

I just wanted to share with you about this, because I want to remain open with you about my life and things that are on my mind lately. I can’t even say I have any feelings about this guy yet, because we haven’t actually really met properly in person. But as you know me, I don’t easily feel comfortable with people to share about myself, and I don’t know why, I just warm up so quickly with this guy, and this feeling just reminds me of you so much.

But I am definitely reminding myself to not rush or have too high of expectations at this moment. After all, we haven’t even chatted in person. I will just try to just see how things naturally unfold.

That’s all I want to share for now. Miss you, Andy, good night 🫂