The Road Less Traveled » Japan http://www.rintaun.net A Journey's Beginning... Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:51:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 5 days? Nonsense! http://www.rintaun.net/2008/09/09/5-days-nonsense/ http://www.rintaun.net/2008/09/09/5-days-nonsense/#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:00:26 +0000 Matthew Lanigan http://www.rintaun.net/?p=26 As of this moment, it is almost exactly five days until I will board my first flight from Pittsburgh to Detroit; after that, it’s a mere 3 hours until I’m on my way to Japan. This, to me, is nonsense. It doesn’t register properly in my brain, and I have no clue what to think about it, really. So for the moment I’m just passively accepting it and moving on with my life for the moment. I haven’t even started packing yet. Does that make me crazy? Maybe. Do I care? Not really.

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Right now, I am helping my mother babysit my twin nephews. They were born August 1st, so they’re just over a month old… It’s kinda upsetting to me that when I next see them, they will be just over a YEAR old.

Anyway, I’ll probably pack late Saturday night… that sounds like something I’d do. In the mean time, I may update again, I may not… who knows. Honestly, I don’t think much is going to change between now and when I leave…

]]> http://www.rintaun.net/2008/09/09/5-days-nonsense/feed/ 1 Before our story begins… http://www.rintaun.net/2008/09/08/the-beginning-of-a-journey/ http://www.rintaun.net/2008/09/08/the-beginning-of-a-journey/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:36:50 +0000 Matthew Lanigan http://www.rintaun.net/?p=22 So, blogging about your trip seems to be the thing to do, and I’m told that I have to keep my frienda and family updated on every tiny little detail of my life in Japan. Well, honestly, that’s probably not going to happen, but whatever. In any case, I am planning on keeping a blog, and updating it relatively often. Whether or not this will last beyond the first day, week, or month… who knows.

I’ve said it again and again that it really hasn’t hit me that I’m going to be in Japan for a year, away from my friends and family, and until yesterday, it’s been true. Yesterday, though, we had a going away party, and it hit me quite a bit as everyone slowly trickled out and finally it was just me, alone. It was a bit depressing, really, realizing that in a week, they would all be thousands of miles away.

That said, I am still looking forward to going. I’ve said many times that going to Japan is both awesome and horrible. I know I’m going to have a great time, but I also know I’m going to miss everyone back here in the USA. I’m not nervous or excited, really, but I am a bit depressed, which is problematic because this is the time when I need to be getting things done.

More later (hopefully).

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