04-05-2006, 02:30 PM
John01 Wrote:You have had an interesting upbringing Spacegirl.
How did you land up in Japan?
Yeah - gets even more confusing when you find out I travel on an Irish Passport due to direct ancesstry to Daniel O'Connel and that ISSH in Tokyo was an American run school... so I spoke like a yank for a LONG time! Even qualify for a Japanese passport due to length of time spent there but to have 3 passports would raise a few questions - imagine trying to explain that one to the SA Govt.... 4 if I decide to go for my British one!
My dad was pulled out of SA with GE America during sanctions in the early 1970's - he was VP so they just shifted the whole fandamily to Tokyo for what was meant to be 3 years but ended up being 8!
Its kewl because I did have a really privilaged childhood with great schooling and even better holidays... pity about the parents acting like complete twats at time but hey ho... such is life!
To regret past mistakes is to live them over again....... move on and live your life without regret!