On my way home from school my first day, I realized that I hadn’t paid that much attention when my host mother walked me to school! I was too spellbound by the neighborhood to remember that I had to get myself home.
To make a long and embarassing story short, I took a wrong turn and [...]
The following is the first email I sent to folks back home:
Hello everyone!
I am in Japan! (Please excuse any typos, this keyboard is kind of funny…) I got here alright, though it was a very tiring trip. The flight from Toronto to Tokyo was something like 13 hours, and from Tokyo I had to take [...]
On my first morning in Japan, my host mother helped me buy a month-long JR pass and showed me the way to school. It was a decent walk, but I enjoyed it every day. Riding the train you get to see a lot of people every day.
The first thing we did was take a Japanese [...]