A little bit about my roots, more on Motoko Carter!

Hello everyone *waves* its Motoko blogging for today people, Jenny had to have a small operation on her arm, and she is really worn out and sleepy at the moment. Her operation went really well and she is back home and resting up. She had to have a third pin inserted into her right arm making the sum total of pins in her arm to three. This should mean that it has strengthened her arm and will not need any more operations again on it.

Well now it’s been a wet day today in our little part of the Cumbrian world that we live in but how will the rest of the week fair up. It’s time for our blogs little Cumbrian forecast we always add to our blogs, it’s become a routine for our blogs now!

So now that’s the weather forecast over and done with we can (or rather I can) get on with the topic my blog is dealing with today. That topic is about me, yes me and about my background and this is cutting a very long story short. I have missed out a lot of what when on and so on as its personal and privet but here is the basic story of me!

First of all I was born in Kyoto, Fushimi which is a fantastic part of Japan and I was very lucky to be born into such a wonderful area. Nothing lasts for ever and all good things must come to an end, and I and my older sister were adopted off in England. We were adopted into another Japanese family living in Cumbria, England. Life was good there and I and my big sister just getting used to the Cumbrain way of life when five years after we all moved back to Japan due to my fathers work. Before that my new parents had a child of their own and I had a little sister. But she stayed back in England when I and big sister went back to Japan with our father. Ironically we all went back to Kyoto so I had come full circle.

By this point I was taking all this morning around and shunting here and there very personally and I was begging for some stability in my life. Being five years old I couldn’t express myself in the way I wanted to and I shut myself out from almost everyone. As you can imagine this didn’t help when it came to being sent to a Japanese school, everyone there ignored me, and treated me like an outcast. I wasn’t pure Japanese, hell I wasn’t even Eurasian. I am half Japanese and half Canadian, what do you call that combination, as I don’t know.

Very soon I did manage to make three friends, and they have remained my friends ever since. Ritsuko was the first friend I made, a happy bubbly and very loud girl, and then Rin a really quite sort of guy but with a big heart. Then there was Esumi, a puzzle and an enigma. I never knew what to make of her but she befriended me and kept all the bullies away with vengeance.

School holidays came as regular as clockwork, each time they came around me, big sister mother and farther came back to Cumbria, England. I loved it and felt happier there than I did in the city of Kyoto, even if it was a great, clean city steeped in history. Coming back to Cumbria, England also meant I got to see my little sister, but I found English hard after learning Japanese, and we found each other growing apart. This is something that hurt more than ever, and took many years for us to grow together again. It took a lot of hard work, trust and time to become sisters once more.

School holidays came to an end and it was time to fly back to Kyoto, Japan once more. Doing this every holiday started to get to me, the stability I needed still wasn’t there and I felt more and more like an object rather than a human life. My farther was a great man, and I respected him and his work. He brought me and my sisters up in a fair, strict but realistic way and I wouldn’t be the person I am now without his support.

My education came to an end and the trips to Cumbria at almost the same time came to a close as well. I worked so hard day and night to become something I would be happy with. Blood, sweat and tears for many years at school had paid off. The grades I got were better than I could have wished for, and I just wanted something to do with them. Esumi had the same luck with her grades as well and arrived one day at my house talking about the Japan Air Self Defense Force. Before long we had both signed up and over time got in and were training to be pilots. At last I found something to focus on and try and make a life I so badly needed. After some time I and Esumi had managed to get though the courses and training and passed them all. We got some time off and Esumi went and did her own thing and I took a trip to Cumbria, England.

Once back in Cumbria, England I made up my mind that I wanted to try my hand at horse riding again. I lived a few miles from a riding stable, and that was my first port of all. Flying a plane was hard but rewarding, and I though that if I can do that. Riding a horse will be very easy indeed. Once I was at the riding stable I was greeted by a young girl. She was called Jenny, and she took one look at me and I remember the first thing she said to me was “You’re not from around here are you”. That line stuck with me ever since, and why you ask? Well this Jenny is the girl I fell in love with and the girl to whom I married a few years later.

Life in the Japan Air Self Defense Force went on and so did my trips back to Cumbria, England when I could get the time off. Each time I went back to Cumbria, England me and Jenny got closer and closer and started dating each other. I felt as if my life was at last something I could live with and be happy living it. I and Jenny been dating for some time at this point and one day I decided to do something which I found more nerve racking than anything I had never done before. This was asking Jenny to marry me. The weather was gray and was pouring down with cold heavy rain, thunder was in the air and this was the day of all days to ask the girl I love to marry me.

Took some time to track Jenny down, they were short staffed and she was doing the job of many people. When I managed to catch her, she was covered in mud and strew all over her waterproofs but she saw me and ran over to me smiling. A few people watched me and her talking to each other. There comes a time when you can’t make small talk for ever so I dropped to one knee and asked the question that will either send you to new heights or come crashing down to earth in a crumpled heap.

Looking up at the girl I loved rain hamming my face, my body feeling ill with nerves I asked her in these exact words “Jenny *produces a ring* will you do me the biggest honor of becoming my wife. I know I am ‘not from around her’ as you said the first day we met but we been together for years, and I want to be together for the rest of my life. Will you marry me” I said.

Worst thing that can happen in that moment happened. Jenny said nothing, just looking down at me and then around at all the staff and her boss all of which were now transfixed upon me and Jenny. I didn’t move or look around at anyone; I kept my gaze upon Jenny’s face the whole time. Reason is I didn’t want to see any ones expression, this would have made this long silence even worse than it was for me already. The moment of silence lasted at lest two minutes, and I was coming to the conclusion that I had just made the biggest mistake of my life. Jenny looked down at me at last and said “Your kneeling in horse poo you silly moo” and she stood me up. Took both my hands and looked into my eyes, and then said “It will be an honor to become your wife”. As you can guess I wasn’t expecting that after the long silence I had to endure. I had to confirm it and after she reassured me I slid the ring onto her finger.

On 15th December 2005 I and Jenny got married in Loch Fyne in Scotland, and after one more year of working in the Japan Air Self Defense Force. I came back to Cumbria, England for good. I left the Japan Air Self Defense Force life behind me. Got a job at the yard Jenny was working on, and we already had a house of our own on the driveway of where she worked and that was fantastic, and we still live in the same house now.

Late 2010 I and Jenny brought the yard from the owners of the yard, and we are now turning it into an equine trekking centre and the work as almost been finished. On 4th of April 2011 we adopted a teenage girl called Amanda, who we had been fostering a few months before we decide we would take the next step and adopt her. I and Jenny have always been happy with the way our relationship was but there was always something we both agreed that was missing. That something of course was a daughter or son. After a few months of fostering Amanda we decided to adopt her, and we feel that our relationship is now complete and that all three of us are very happy.

Leaving Japan Air Self Defense Force for Jenny and the Cumbrian life was the best thing I have ever done. I enjoyed my life in the Japan Air Self Defense Force but I felt like it wasn’t fully what I wanted. Life with Jenny is what I been looking for all my life, and that is stability, and she has plenty to give me. Our daughter Amanda was the last part of our life to make us complete. I could never of have had such an amazing family as I have right now if I had stayed in Japan Air Self Defense Force.

Well sorry for the long blog, I know it was maybe a little bit boring and so sorry for my grammar and spelling. I am a little sleepy and worn out from work and my English is at its worst then! Worked from early this morning from 06:00 till 14:30.

We shall blog again real soon, so take care!

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