I made it to Japan. I spent all of 4 hours there.

Got to see the sunrise during my flight from MSP to Chicago O’hare. Pilot was pretty good too.  The Flight Attendants were sisters, which I thought was interesting. I took a couple pictures of the plane… Airliner. Damn these things are big. It seems much bigger than the LS-120 I flew to Russia in, back [...]

When I last wrote on here, things were lined up and seemingly ready to go.  I had all my directions, travel plans, and reservations all ready to go… or so I thought. Things were much more fluid than I had realized, but they ended up working out. First off, traveling on a bus fell through [...]

I’m about a month out from my trip, and yes, I’m starting to get excited. I’ve been excited, but I’ve also been a bit reserved about this whole thing for a couple reasons; A. I’m still buried under a pile of papers/presentations/tests and other things,  and B. I kept waiting for “something bad” to happen [...]

Seinan Gakuin is the University I’ll be attending during my “tour” abroad. Seinan stands for “Southwest” – which explains the intertwined SW logo – and Gakuin means “graduate school” (though I’m not going to grad school just yet) Seinan was founded around 1919 as a Christian school for boys. It wasn’t until after WWII that [...]