Adjustments

This is the last week of school for the 3rd grade junior high school (9th) and 6th grade elementary students. Friday is graduation, though school will continue for another week and a half for the other grades. I don't understand the logic of the extra 8 days of school, but that's okay. I've accepted that I don't need to understand everything, especially something that doesn't really impact my life one way or another.

With graduation approaching, I started looking through my selection of suits. I was extremely disappointed. It's not that the suits I brought with me are bad. Rather, they were cut for a different build of person, an American size. No, I haven't shrunk (at least not vertically), but I have gotten slimmer. I'm not really sure how to describe it, because I've hovered around 75kg (165 lbs) for years now. Anyway, after putting on my suit jacket only to feel like I was preparing for a cross-ocean venture, I decided it was time to buy a new suit. And I came home with two.

I went to the local "western suits" store in Nago and was helped by a salesman there named Nishi. He was happy to help me figure out exactly what kind of suit would fit on my current build and we started going through a series of designs. I had the great luck to want to purchase a new suit during a very good special they were running. With the purchase of one suit, the second (２着目) was only going to cost me 1,000 yen (or about $10). Nice. I got two suits, a new shirt, and a slim pink tie for just under 60,000 yen ($600). I'm picking them up Wednesday after the pants have been hemmed to my liking.

They're really slick. My favorite part about them is their slim cut. I'd always felt a little "lost" in suits that I had picked up in the states. Understandable, since my build back then didn't fit the average build of an American. These suits are cut for style, slim and athletic, and I'm really happy to have spent the money on them. Now that I've got them, I'm going to have to look for reasons to wear them.

So, anybody have any ideas?