friggin freezing

February 1st...one would think it would be the beginning of spring...I mean, flowers have begun to bloom...there are buds on the trees, today i saw a robin. it also snowed for the first time today. From all that i can gather, February is always the coldest month of winter in Japan. And I know I have complained before about how ridiculously cold it is here....but I have just learned that everything I thought i knew to be frigging cold was a lie.....the truth (which hit me today) is far more painful and emotionally scarring. Today, I wore 3 (1,2,3) pairs of pants to school...along with 2 sweaters, a long underwear shirt, a t-shirt, and a tanktop....I finally broke out my brothers old university ski team jacket and even that was barely warm enough. I have reached a new low on the temperature scale, and I am so not pleased. Pray for March people!!! I can't help but imagine myself to be like one of those old people who doesn't use their heat, and dies of hypothermia in their apartment, with their fish, who is frozen in its bowl. Except that I do use my heat....but it doesn't matter...there is no insulation and the heat just whips right through the walls and windows.

That's it...I'm escaping to Thailand first chance I get!!!

PS. I am typing this from underneath 9 blankets in bed...the warmest place in the apartment.