This is my final post regarding my trip to Japan. Read the previous post here, or jump to the first one to read the whole adventure. It is, unsurprisingly, disappointing to be ordered to return home due to a global pandemic. It's frustrating that I was sent from a country that currently has 9 cases [...]
The person you see in the above photograph is Kawakado Sayaka. We first met when the university paired us up to go on a trip to Kyoto: several international students were paired with two Japanese students. From there, everyone broke into their teams and the Japanese students lead us around Kyoto, to places they knew [...]
The person in the above photograph is Sekimoto Tsuneko, the host mother for me while I stayed abroad in Japan. In the photograph, she's celebrating a Japanese holiday, where one eats an uncut role of sushi without speaking. She was the housekeeper in a very gendered Japanese society where despite working a full job, she [...]
This is my sixth post since leaving America. See the previous one here, and click here to start back at the beginning. Now that everyone is starting to get settled into their lives in Japan, Kansai Gaidai decided to schedule an optional trip to the nearby city of Kyoto. Kyoto used to be the capital of Japan [...]
My roommates and I have been having crazy, wild weekends between Venice and Nice, but we finally had a weekend in Florence to relax and enjoy our city! During the week is always great because we get to adventure our own city, but this weekend we got to REALLY explore. We had a fun low-key [...]
