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Things are looking up!

I finally had a good day where I was happy all day and had no major issues (even though I had a really bad sore throat all day I think from…

January 10, 2014

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Konnichiwa Nihon! (Part 2)

January 8 (first full day in Japan): I had to get up at 6 this morning. I hadn’t slept well because I kept waking up every   2 hours. My internal…

January 9, 2014

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Konnichiwa Nihon! (Part 1)

I finally made it to Japan!!!! And holy crap, living in Japan is SO much harder than I ever imagined it would be. But more on that later. So the…

January 8, 2014

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Sayonara America!

This is it! I woke up at the butt crack of dawn (aka 4 in the morning) to leave for the airport. I said bye to my dad and then…

January 6, 2014

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Counting down the days…

Got another email from my host family today 🙂 They sent me a picture of all of them in their kimonos celebrating New Year’s!And they said Miyabi (their 7-year old…

January 3, 2014

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They replied!!

Japanese people are so sweet. I woke up to this super adorable message, all in Japanese, about how they can’t wait to meet me and introduce me to their pets,…

December 26, 2013

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Contacting my host family! :)

Soo I emailed my host family today. I’ll post their response when it comes. I’m trying not to let it get me down that they live so freaking far away…

December 24, 2013