Hello, all! Guess what?! I saw Mt. Fuji! ….Well, a model version of Mt. Fuji. On a high rise observatory machine. But still cool! I’ll back up a little bit for you: I actually recently came back from a trip to Nagoya! Nagoya is a city located in Aichi Prefecture, which is southwest of Tokyo. …
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Apartment Tour Part 1!
Hey, y’all! Here is a short tour of my apartment in Japan! The first part is my room and how I have been organizing my life the past few months. The second part is coming soon!
Adventures in Harajuku
One of the most famous places to shop in Tokyo is Harajuku. Here is some footage of a few of my trips to the city!
Host Family Video Collage
Hello, everyone! I heard that some of my photos were not visible in my older post about my host family, so I made a video instead! I hope this is better! Please enjoy!
Grocery Shopping in Japan!
Hey, y’all! I finally got around to making a vlog; I hope you enjoy watching it! Feedback welcome 🙂 (The video is about 28 minutes, just letting you know. Sorry it’s so long!)
Starting off Right
Hi again! Life in Japan post number TWO. Here we go! As I mentioned in my previous post, my first few days in Japan were wonderful. Let me go into further detail about that here! I arrived in Japan on March 25th in the late afternoon. My flight was 13 hours long and I had …
First Impressions
Yes, yes, yes, I am alive and in Japan!!! Sorry if it seems like I’ve been M.I.A. lately! My first few days here were absolutely wonderful, and as much as I wanted to share my thoughts about the beginning of my journey, I really wanted to just soak everything up by myself first. I didn’t …
The Waiting Game—Pre-Departure in All its Glory
Hello, everyone! So…in case anyone hasn’t noticed already…I haven’t posted anything on this blog until now. This is because I am not abroad yet, actually! Some students studying abroad have semesters on a similar schedule to Hope College, but in Japan, the spring semester is from April to July. This means I’ve had about a …
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Reverse Culture Shock
It isn’t that I didn’t really believe that I wouldn’t be surprised by some of the things I encountered in the US after my term abroad, but I was slightly skeptical of calling it a form of “culture shock.” However, after being in the US now for a full week I would agree that I …
Lost in Paradise or Paradise Lost?
As my semester has come to an end, I am able to look back on these past three months and see how much I have learned and see all the fantastic experiences I have had. It is impossible to sum up a whole semester of experiences in one blog post, and therefore, I will not even …
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