Totally Tokyo

"American Music"

Do you like amercan music
I like american music
don't you like american music baby
I want you to hold me
I want your arms around me
I want you to hold me baby
did you do too many drugs
I did too many drugs
did you do too many drugs too baby
you were born too late
I was born too soon
but every time I look at that ugly moon
it reminds me of you
it reminds me of you ooh ooh ooh
I need a date to the prom
would you like to come along
but nobody would go to the prom with me baby
they didn't like american music
they never heard american music
they didn't know the music was in my soul baby


Ok... enough of the Violent Femmes lyrics. I am home in America now. Break has started, but more importantly: Fall 2006 Study Abroad TUJ has come to an end.

I have made relationships that are so powerful and I know these people will be in my life forever. This exposure to Japan and Asian culture has opened up a curiousty that I only want to contiune exploring. I have found so many loves from people, to enviornments. I feel lucky and honored every day. I will always have the impact that these relationships have left, and I am able to come back to Japan for another semester. A semester that will be different than this one that just concluded. I will be working in Shibuya for a Tokyo based website launching in the begining of the year, I am living in an apartment near the transportation and nightlife area of Shinjuku. Truely an independent experience. However, nothing will every compare to sharing a space with people that have become my best friends. Being able to feed off of their explorations and curiousity of Japan allowed me to discover twice as much (or 70 times as much) than I would have on my own. Sakura House was an amazing experience. Everyday I will miss living with my friends.

It is great to be at home and to see everyone that I love. It is a great feeling to see everything that is stable in my life. I am glad to be celebrating the holidays with my family that I have missed so much. in my house, which is so beauitful and cozy especially this time of the year. I can't wait to celebrate New Year with Thom and all of my friends from philly.

Jan 5th, Watch out Japan.... I am coming back!

posted by Stephy-ru @ Saturday, December 16, 2006