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All Done

Posted May 5, 2008

Well guys, the year is all done, but it looks like my life is just getting started.

I'm not sure where to go with this because of all I have to say (because it's been forever since I wrote in this thing), so I'll just kind of pick and choose. To start off with, I recently finished watching a Japanese drama called Pride. It's about an Ice Hockey team and the things that go on around it. The two main characters, Haru and Aki, of course fall in and out of love (and finally back in) during the show, and there are a lot of the things you'd expect from television, but I have to admit that I've never been so caught up in anything in my life. Those 11 episodes were so good and so much fun to watch. The love story was incredible, the hockey was great, and I actually cried during it (Pathetic I know). I still feel a little bit like I've been broken up with now that the show is over, but hopefully I'll find a way to get over it.

Well, now that my deepest darkest secrets are out there, I suppose I should let you in on the less intriguing stuff in my life. I moved down to Charleston yesterday with my friend David, and with Joseph's help we all moved into our apartment. The place is absolutely huge and honestly beautiful, so I'm pretty happy with the arrangements. I'm a bit nervous to be living in a big city, but I guess it's a good warm up for going to Japan. There's a crazy dog outside our place who we call Schizo simply because that's the way he acts. He's a pretty sweet dog overall, but he only has just a plank of wood to sit under during the day, and very little food and water, so I think we've sort of taken on the role of helping him out as much as we can by giving him leftovers and the pets he never gets. I hope his summer is good because of us.

So after Charleston comes Japan, something that I'm seriously excited about. I just recently received my passport and sent it off to Sophia, so I should get all my housing assignments and the like back soon. Thinking about going to Tokyo makes me a bit nervous, but I'm sure I'll figure it out. I know enough Japanese to carry on a good conversation with people, and I hope to know enough kanji by the end of the summer to be able to navigate without too much trouble, but well see how that turns out.

I actually did have the opportunity to speak with a Japanese family recently, and it was amazing! Yuko's family came into town because of her wedding yesterday, so she and Scott invited me over to her house to talk with them. They were really easy to talk to and they even invited me over to their home in Japan (more than once, so I know they were genuine). My Japanese isn't great just yet, but we were able to carry on a conversation okay. I really like the younger son, Tatsuya, who I had a chance to go to the World of Coke with back in December. We sat around and played video games until it was much too late for me to be there, but it was totally worth it.

So to wrap up, I guess it's rather fitting to talk about my school year. I wound up with all A's this semester after quite a bit of hard work, and I'm pretty proud of it. I'm most proud about my A's in Modern Fiction and Literary theory, the two classes that most demanded my time and energy. It's a good feeling having your hard work pay off.

Whew! I'm done, but I'll be updating more regularly now that I've had a chance to breathe again.

-Kevin

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