Planning ahead

Wow it is almost the end of June. Time really flies!! So, I guess this post is just really about planning I have to do in order to get ready to go to Japan. Currently, I am waiting on a package from Ritsumeikan about planning for my trip over and among other things relating to my housing. Included in this parcel should be an official acceptance letter from Ritsumeikan which I need to show to Pitt's Study Abroad Office so I can sign their special contract. From there, I need to decide what classes I am going to take throughout the year. On top of this, there is all of my visa paper work! Ah! So busy!

As for my departure date, it will be sometime between September 9th through September 16th. Orientation starts the 21st. Classes, the 27th.

I just wish it would be September. But until then, gotta get to work!

オリビア
6/26/2010

The start of my story

Hello to anyone who may be reading this.

I decided to start this blog as a way to keep track of my adventures for when I leave for Japan this September (and possibly use this for a scholarship that I am applying to). This blog will probably (well, hopefully at least XD) be filled with some pictures, interesting stories and other peculiar events that I will experience during my year studying abroad in Kyoto.

It has been three years since I was last in Japan. That time felt so long ago; the two weeks I spent with my dad and my sister, and my adventure as an exchange student the year prior. I hope that this adventure, this story, I am going to create, will be the grandest of all. I am finally fullfilling a promise I made to myself when I was sixteen years old. The night I returned from Japan for the first time, I told myself that I would go back to that country when I became a university student. And this time, the duration of my stay will not be two weeks or a summer, but a full academic year.

I am so excited. My story, watashi no monogatari, is about to begin.

オリビア