Yesterday's weather in Kitakyushu went from sunny & mild to cloudy with heavy winds. The rainy season is almost here.

I received an e-mail message from my folks back home. At first I did a double take. Why is my mother telling me to redirect any future packages to my sister's address (just three houses down)? So I continued reading.

When I return home in mid-August, my parents will have moved from our house (in La Verne) to an apartment in San Gabriel, putting me closer to Los Angeles and further from my friends in the OC area.

Sometime last year before I left for Japan I was packing things away and I told my friends that something like this would happen. I called it, and look - it came true.

My parents have been having difficult times finding work. Mom works only a few days of the week and my father is working some odd jobs, nothing permanent. The rent in La Verne has been too heavy, hence the move.

While I understand the situation I can't help but be frustrated.

This will be the eleventh location we've shifted to. I'm not quite sure if this sequence is entirely correct, but since I was born I have lived with my parents in:

Fontana
Monterey Park
Costa Mesa
Riverside
Bakersfield
La Mirada
Bangkok, Thailand
Cerritos
Buena Park
La Verne

I always considered myself nomadic, but not by choice. Once more will I have to familiarize myself with a new neighborhood.

I was hoping to return to the familiar, but I am realizing now that I will return to another unkown of sorts instead.