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 [...]
This is my fifth post since leaving America. See the previous one here, and click here to start back at the beginning. I should preface this article by saying what I did was dumb. Don't follow my lead. In Japan, when I tell people that I’m studying microbiology, they usually respond with something along the [...]
