On Wednesday night my mom sent me an email to tell me my oldest guinea pig, Furball, had passed away. I was really hoping that, despite his age (4 years and 2 months, quite elderly for a guinea pig), that he would make it through the 8 months that I’d be away, and I [...]

So I guess I forgot to post into my blog that I have a new roommate. Had a few issues with my previous roommate, so I swapped out and now I’m living next door. My new roommate is Stacy, who you’ve seen in some of my early pictures. We’re both in 2nd [...]

Just got out of the first one-on-one meeting I’ve had with my Sensei (teacher). What was scheduled to be a 20-minute meeting about particles turned into an hour long “lets go over every detail you got wrong on the test since I recoded it all in my grade book” session. It wasn’t so [...]

Until yesterday, for an entire month of being in Japan I had been to a whopping three arcades. Three. Its not that I’m even that into video games, but I was really excited to come to Japan to find out what kind of crazy nontraditional arcade games they have (I love all those [...]

After probably 10 hours straight studying on Thursday for weekly test on Friday morning, it was nice to yet again get out from JCMU for a day trip. Returned again to Kyoto, this time with the intent on visiting the Fushimi Inari shrine, and also to go back to the Kyoto Handicraft Center. [...]