Fall into Winter...

so yes, this blog failed in the end. the three months that I spent studying at ICU I did not write a single entry. well, thats how life goes sometimes. and now I am here, in the last leg of my journey, traveling with my parents and saying goodbye the country that I have called home for the past six months. I cannot believe it is already over. I love Japan. I really do. I never imagined that so much would happen in six months, that I would grow so much in such a short amount of time.

Thank you to everyone that I have met on my travels. To all of my new friends-Japanese, American, and everywhere in between. Thank you for the memories that I know I will never forget. For squeezing onto the last train or the first train the next morning after dancing your heart out to what Japan likes to call hip hop, for the trips to hair salons and tattoo parlors, for taking me out on dates in Yokohama, Hiroshima, really all around Japan [and Hong Kong] or simply Kichijoji, for letting me crash at your place because I could not get in at home, for lunches on bakayama and getting up from the warm spot in the grass for soft cream or waffle bars, for cramming for kanji quizzes because wasting the day wandering around Tokyo just seemed like the better choice, for every moment, thank you. Japan would not have been the same without you and I would not have had it any other way.

I love you all so much and cannot believe that I will be leaving you so soon. I have said all of my goodbyes now and am traveling with my American family to visit my Japanese family for New Years. I am so excited. Thank you Japan, for everything always!!!