I miss Tokyo so much, my chest hurts.

Life After Japan
The first few days were difficult. There was a strong sense of unreality in being back here-I kept expecting that any minute, I’d wake up in my dorm as usual, eat my breakfast bento, and head to school on the subway.

Unfortunately ( Read more... )

Tuesday, August 12th
After ( Read more... )

Back in the U.S. Well, as of yesterday, but I wasn't up to dealing with web stuff at that point ( Read more... )

Friday, August 8th

We tried to wrap up as much as we could in Newspaper Club, but in the end, we didn’t manage to finish either my computer version or the accompanying hand-drawn poster/collage that were supposed to be done by the end of today. So, all of us with afternoon classes stayed after class to work on it some more. It was 7pm by the time I ( Read more... )

Something new today: I have two short video clips to post. The quality is by no means great, but it’s something new. However, the files are pretty big, so I’m not sure if I can manage to upload them within my hour in the computer lab. I guess we’ll see by the time I have my pictures uploaded and am ready to post this, whether I was able to or not. ( Read more... )

No pictures this time, sorry! The only thing that’s happened that was worthy of pictures was the school speech contest, and I wasn’t in the mental state to be photographing. However, Un Young took a lot of pictures, so I’m going to ask her to send those to me, and then I’ll post them as soon as I can. ( Read more... )

Friday, July 25th
After my last post, as mentioned, I went to Newspaper Club. A lot of people didn’t show up; it seems like our membership has dropped by almost half. The bad news is, they seem to have given up on the idea of the small groups going places together, so the suggested outing to an omatsuri probably isn’t happening. The good news is, ( Read more... )

So I learned from my mistake from last week and am posting an entry now, to avoid having to wait until Monday or Tuesday and potentially having another extremely long entry. Not too much has happened, but there’s nothing wrong with a short post, I guess.

Also, since I guess this is the announcement section of the post, since I realize not everyone ( Read more... )

 [continued from previous post.]

Monday, July 21st
As I mentioned, it’s a three-day weekend. July 20th is called 「海の日」 (Ocean Day) and is, for some reason, considered a national holiday. Since the 20th was a Sunday, everyone gets the following Monday (i.e. today) off. No class, and most people have off work.

I woke up at 7:30am, only to discover that ( Read more... )