Life has been a little crazy lately. I'll be going home again. Over the last few weeks I've realized that I want to come back to Japan...I think I have to come back. To do that I have to change my major, probably move across the country when I'm back in the U.S., figure out a metric ton of paperwork, and somehow learn to speak, read, and write Japanese. (That last one is the hardest.)
Life in Japan is so different, and it can be extremely rough for me. City life is difficult for a country girl and I keep running into the language barrier hard enough to give myself a concussion. And yet, there are lots of good things that help even it out. I feel a lot of affection for this city, and for the people around me who try so hard to make me feel welcome.
