Ticket in hand, ready to go!!! My parents are giving me the last awkward hug before I fly off to Japan--for a YEAR! Okay, so it was only 8 1/2 months, but you get the picture...
I went on an exchange to Nagoya, Japan at Nanzan University's CJS--Center for Japanese Studies--from September 1997-May 1998. Basically, I studied the Japanese language so I could talk to the people around me instead of just doing the plastered smile look forever.
So, here we go...