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Woot orientation day 2!

Every morning we have breakfast at 6:15. Ugh, so early. I can’t eat so early in the morning. Yuko made miso soup and rice. The soup had a bunch of…

January 11, 2014

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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