After many months of planning, today is finally the day I leave to study abroad in Japan! Going to Japan has always been a dream of mine, and to get the opportunity to be there for a semester has been pretty exciting for me. This last month of August, I’ve been visiting a lot of…
Category: Japan: Kansai Gaidai
Pre-Departure: 2 months out
The first time I lived in Japan was when I was seventeen. I had graduated high school three months prior at the age of sixteen, youngest of my graduating class, and was eager to get out of the country and off into the unknown. I studied abroad through an organization known as Rotary Youth Exchange, with whom…