"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."
- Mark Twain
It’s been a while since I posted in this space, huh? Well, I just took my first trip during my time here: a couple days down in Tokyo with some of my Korean friends. I’ll get to that in a bit, but first I thought that I’d try to play catch-up and go over what I’ve been up to the last couple of weeks since I posted last.
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.
This one isn’t going to have a day associated with it because I haven’t been able to keep up with writing about everyday. The main reason for this (if you follow my Twitter then you know) is that my MacBook’s hard drive crapped out on me on Monday. However, everything is good and back up and running. So this will be a quick post to get everyone back up to speed on what’s been happening the last couple of days or so.
I woke up a couple minutes before my alarm clock was to go off at 7 A.M.. This night went much better thanks to the working heater over in the corner. Today was the day of the Japanese Language Placement Test, the evaluation that would determine what level of Japanese language class I would take. I wasn’t too nervous, since there really wasn’t anything to be nervous about - it served only to place me in a class appropriate to my skill. I did the usual morning routine of showering and teeth brushing, grabbed my things and went out the door.
The second day has come and gone. I sit here in my room tonight, unpacking my things (finally) and getting ready to sleep, in preparation for the Japanese Language Placement Test tomorrow. Due to the incredibly long length of my last post and the need for me to get to bed on time, this will be a much more abbreviated entry.
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