It has begun…
So, here we are. After a bunch of dilly-dallying, my blog is finally up for everyone to see. Granted, there’s really not much to see at this point, but at least you all know that I’m alive. I figured I’d write some sort of summary of the last couple of weeks before starting to blog proper… but I probably won’t, for the exact same reason I put it off in the first place - there’s just been too much stuff going on to describe it all without going nuts in the process. So I guess I’ll just sort of make a few comments on what’s happened so far in passing, or something. We’ll see, I suppose. Really, I’m already writing more now than I thought I would, so, um, I might as well keep going and briefly tell you a little about my current situation.
If anyone had managed to miss it, I’m currently in Akita, Japan, to spend a year at Akita International University, studying Japanese. I arrived here at the 28th of August, and after an arduous week of orientation, picking classes and learning how to find my way around campus, classes started at September 4th. I’m having a really good time so far; the campus is beautiful, people are really nice and the food is delicious (although the size of the servings are pitiful at times). I’ve already made a lot of friends (arguably more than I ever did during my two years in Gothenburg), and somehow I just feel really at home at the school. I really haven’t gotten into the whole “getting up before noon” thing (or the “studying” one, for that matter), and having rice three times a day does take some getting used to, but all things considered I’m really enjoying my stay so far, and I really look forward to spending my next year at this place.
In closing, just a small technical note: The structure for the blog isn’t really finished at this point - it’s supposed to be completely bilingual (the interface as well as however many posts I can be bothered to translate), but I haven’t completely figured out how it works yet. I guess there’s some other functionality that’s going to be added as well, but I’m really clueless about the technical side of things, so I pretty much just leave it all to my brother to fix. But it’ll all get straightened out eventually.