September First. Leaving in four days.

That is right! I am off to Japan in four days... Holy hell am I scared. People keep telling me how great I am to be going on this adventure. The truth is I'm terrified. Yes, I have been dreaming of this for years. Yet it is finally becoming real. Really real. I have to pack my room and get everything ready to go. I am worried about what I can and can't take. Things are getting heated and I am not sure if I can handle the flame. There is also the issue of me having never really been on a plane alone before. This is such a terrifying yet great adventure. I wonder if I shall be able to live up to all things I need to do to go there. We shall see I suppose. I have it mostly planned out. Now to hope it goes to plan. 

July of the summer before.

A lot has happened since my last post here. To start off, I got accepted to my host university in Japan. I will be in Japan for eleven months. My Certificate of Eligibility comes in tomorrow and I apply for my Visa this month. All of my paperwork is done and I fly out at the start of September. Currently I am working a summer job to help pay for things but this year is proving to be cheaper than previous college years. I am a mix of excited and terrified. As I spend a year at Toyo University I hope to continue updating things here and sharing my adventures on how things go.
I will not be the only one going to my university though! Two of my college class mates will be going with me. One of them and I have become rather good friends in talking about all this and planning things that we will do while in Tokyo. However, the third is stand offish. She is very nice over all but I do not believe her to care really about others and I do not know how to interact with people like that. Time will tell if she will be joining the other and I on our adventures and our night life in Tokyo (which we will be having because we come from the middle of FUCKING NO WHERE so we want to be able to have that dream) or not. Small details left to prepare before I leave. I am having a going away party as many have expressed an interest in seeing me before not seeing me for almost an entire year, two for some as I will not be returning to my home town till after I graduate from college officially. This is chalking up to be a pretty big adventure.
It is also starting to hit me exactly how much of a size difference there is between the towns I've been to and TOKYO. I'm going from a place where there are only a million people in the entire state, Montana, to a place where there are 7 million people in ONE city, Tokyo. That is HUGE. I will see more people in eleven months than I have in my entire life. This is a huge transition and I can't help but wonder if I won't crack under the pressure. Those who read this blog if you have any advice or idea's for how to cope or places to go while I'm there, please feel free to comment and discuss.
-till Later-
-Pyn- 

The last day of College in America

Today was my final in my Japanese class. Semester is over and I am starting to get ready for Japan. As such it is important to update on how this all started. Since highschool I've been up and down about what my life will become. As I entered college I decided on becoming a Japanese Major. Joining an Elite program on my campus as well that would help me go abroad my junior year. It has been two years since that all started. About six months ago I started my application for study abroad. From there I took a abroad class, and now I'm on my way to getting vaccines and more money over the summer. As I go through all these new experiences such as getting my Visa, what Vaccine's I'll need as an American going to Japan and other such things I'm going to try and keep a blog about it. This will help others traveling to Tokyo, as well as myself for future reference to my travels. As such, This is a log from my pre flight to Tokyo to the post flight back to the States. Shall try to keep people updated on my adventures.