My blog post is finally done chronicling my adventures in Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka with Nick. Its 19 pages long. Enjoy!!
Day 1: (Monday Dec 19,2005)
Woke up at 5:30am, and looked outside my window to find that about a foot (yes, 12 inches!) of snow had fallen in Hikone. Not too happy about [...]

JCMU is now a deadzone. Walking through the dark hallways I can’t hear anyone making any noise….I feel like I’m in some horror movie where I’m stuck in this haunted building all alone. A majority of the students have either left for winter vacation back in the US, or have returned to the [...]

So my final grade in Level 2 Intensive Japanese is…a B!! This was one of the hardest classes that I have ever taken, so I’m very proud of my B. Hopefully I can make it a B+ for Level 3??!?
Bring on the vacation!

Wednesday was such a lovely day. I spent most of it half-heartedly studying for my Japanese final. At this point, I was ready to take it immediately because I just wanted it to be over with. Went to bed around 1am with the intention of getting up at 6:30am to continue studying [...]

So today turned out to be a pretty interesting day. Got up at 7:30am, hit my alarm a couple times, then got all dressed up for the upcoming speech that I would have to make infront of 80% of my classmates. Naturally, of the 36 speeches that would be taking place, I was [...]

In 7 days I will be finished with the fall semester at JCMU. I am sooooo looking forward to a good 3 weeks off from this place. At this point I’m not even trying to think about 3rd year Japanese, because it scares me. At this point, all that I have left [...]

Last night I went to Coco’s with Cassidy and with all of our conversation partners to enjoy their new ‘winter’ dessert menu, which has many yummy strawberry dishes on it. When we were done eating, we left the restaurant to find it pouring out. Since the academic building (which is connected to Coco’s) [...]

Two weeks have passed since Cassidy and I went to Hiroshima and Fukuoka, so we decided that we were finally rested up enough, and we put on our traveling shoes once again, this time to visit Kyoto. Because of the event that I had attended at the Kyoto Women’s College about a month back, [...]