Time to Begin

So, now even I have made a blog. Yippee. I didn't really want to make one, but I'm going to be out of my home country (USA) for a few weeks starting tomorrow, and my family wanted a better way to keep in touch than just email. So, here we go.

I've pretty much finished assembling what I need for my trip, all that is left is to pack it up. Where am I going? Japan, on what is technically a study-trip. Do I much care about the studying part? Well, I do want to improve my completely self-taught Japanese. But do I really care about grades at this point? Nope. I went through Commencement last week and the announcers didn't mention my honors (Magna Cum Laude). (On that note, it's rather irritating that in the previous parentheses, the only word not underlined as a spelling error is the middle one. What does it say about our society that honors are seen as errors?) The speakers messed up with most if my fellow graduates, as they didn't even start mentioning the honors until over half the class had gone up and received their diploma case.

The trip will last slightly under three weeks. Departure is on the 19th, arrival on the 20th. We arrive back in America on July 10th. I intend to take many, many pictures, and try to find something extraordinarily weird each day. I will then photograph the weird thing and treasure that picture to an unusual degree.

I have the distinct feeling that I'm going to regret the address I chose, as I will undoubtedly learn that it doesn't quite mean what I think it does: Such a lot of (various, really) things to do.

Seems like a waste to have a blog for only three weeks. I have a couple of other projects in the works, however, and if I make any significant progress on them I'll post that news here as well.

Ja ne.