April 20th, 2008

This past week has been one of adjustment - it’s been a long while since I last went to classes at a college level. Like I mentioned in my last post, I last went to classes last fall semester at UMaine, about four months ago. Now I’ve gotten my schedule all worked out and I feel like it won’t take long for me to get back into the swing of things. I’ll talk a bit about my classes, and then about the weekend, which was exceptionally fun - there was a welcome party for the new foreign students and then rafting with the club I just joined, the adventure club, or tanken-bu.

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April 13th, 2008

It’s really been a while since I last attended a class. I finished up my last semester at my home school in December of 2007 and have since been working and now traveling before settling in for my spring semester which starts tomorrow. I’ve made some choices about what I want to take for classes, including some really interesting sounding culture and business classes.

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April 10th, 2008

*** WARNING: EPICLY LONG POST AHEAD ***

Here I was thinking that yesterday was as good as it could get. Today was an absolutely packed first day in Japan. Where do I even begin? I suppose that there is but one place to begin, and that place is the beginning.

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    Currently a student at the University of Maine, Joe will be a foreign exchange student in Japan at Hirosaki University from April 2008 to February 2009. This blog will be the place where he will share his words, photos, and videos about the great adventure he is about to undertake.
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