Good morning everyone! School is fast approaching and to those who may be heading West toward the land of the rising sun, I wish you good luck! Your experience will differ from the person next to you and down the line. Japan is a typhoon upside down and inside out and it will be the…
Category: Japan: Kansai Gaidai
My Last Week in Japan
My last week in Japan was filled with a ups and downs but was arguably one of the best weeks that I have had in Japan! To start off my last week my host mother got me all dressed up in this super pretty Kimono. We spent the whole night the previous night picking out…
Japan: Letter to Anonymous
Studying in Japan in my 2016 Fall semester. Before touch down at Haneda Tokyo Airport, I had serious regrets. What was I getting myself into? What the hell was I thinking? The first four weeks in Japan were spent in a mixture of merriment and trepidation. “Japan really is for the Japanese” is what…
Japan – Overtures and Preludes
When you begin to write and explain an experience, along the way you come to realize that by recording the experience you begin to miss out on what is really happening around you. The first few weeks I spent ambling around in Kyoto and the Kansai area I was stricken with a clear feeling that “Japan was…