At long last, the next monster post about the Japan trip ( Read more... )

( Choir Tour to Japan: Day 2, part 1 )

So! Due to many requests, I finally sat down and started writing about the trip. Scribbling at great length about my tiny adventures in Chile this past summer actually turned out to be an amazing way to process all the stuff I saw, and I think I ended up learning and remembering much more as a result. So I'll try to do the same for Japan ( Read more... )

So, I've been back from Japan for a couple of days now -- although I'm still waking up every morning at 4 AM craving a bowl of rice with nori flakes for breakfast. And I can't get back to sleep, so I've been exhausted pretty much all the time since we returned. Also mopey and missing Tokyo, because the trip was WONDERFUL, practically everything I ( Read more... )

In about three hours I will be waking up to go to the bus to go to the airport to go to Chicago to go to Tokyo.

Japan ho!

Bon voyage, self.

Wordy reports as time and internet connection permit.

Tomorrow's my last day of rehearsals before going to JAPAN.

It hasn't quite sunk in yet. All I can think is that 1) maybe on the 14 hour flight my horrible insomnia will go away (I haven't slept more than five hours a night in four days, and I am DEAD) and 2) once we're there we won't be rehearsing all the time. Four hours of choir per day plus ( Read more... )