Catch Up

Alright, here's the deal.

I have a lot I want to talk about, and just not enough time to do.
While I would love to back-track and cover every minuet detail of this crazy adventure, there is just too much in the past now to cover it all with the clarity that the instances deserve. However, I do have separate (fragmented) diary, so if I ever do have the time, I will be able to wrap you around some past events and save you all from a boring present. For the moment, let's just live for the present. As such, there is some important information needed to catch you up with the moment.

I now am living with a host family (Muraguchi Kimiyuki and Miyoko).


I have attended classes at Kansai Gaidai for nearly a week.


And I've been living in Japan for the last few weeks.


... oh yea, and I've been wicked lost trying to get home each day.

Well this doesn't seem right...

That last point brings me to the main point of this blog post; wanton confusion. Taking the recap further, I am from a small town, my home American college is in a small town, and Japan is one of the most jam-packed places on the planet. Even after led to school three times in a row, I still manage to get completely and obliviously lost every day since class began.

On Monday, I left school at 3:30 and didn't find my homestay house until 6 (after of course asking some locals for help, calling my college, and realizing that where I wanted to be was a street over.


Tuesday, was similar. I left at 4:00 and didn't make it home until I again asked for help. You may be giggling to yourself thinking that Eddie is absent-minded silly face, and you'd be right. But the matter of the fact is that I am in a large city. Not only is it a large city, but when you try to get to any of the homes, you'll find that housing is as packed as possible streets and inky-dinky, and there are bikes and scooters and cars and buses and people EVERYWHERE. You know the phrase 'more (insert thing here) than you can shake a stick at'? Here, you wouldn't even be able to get the bloody thing off your person without being smoked by a motorcycle.

More on this later. If the past is to be any sort of notice, I will lost again today. I will try to update this post with an extended entry and pictures tomorrow. Wish me luck, I have placement tests!