Start of Osaka 2010: a new summer, a new city

Light Fellowship: Take Two. This is the beginning of posts for the summer of 2010, going to Osaka. Everything before this was Summer 2009, doing a light fellowship in Hakodate.


This time I'm headed to Osaka. Barely recovered from spring semester and deadweek and graduation and the rollercoaster of emotions that entails, and I'm flying straight from New Haven to Japan.

Only issue: the program CET didn't really give me enough arrival details to get a flight that would arrive early enough. They told me just to get a flight arriving on the 28th, so that's what I got. 1:10 pm out of JFK, 5 pm (the next day) in Tokyo. Three hours of bullet trains from there to Osaka. Best case scenario I arrive by 10 pm, most likely much later. This is of course past the time when CET is doing all the orientation and providing me a means of getting into the apartment in which I'll be living. Won't yet have a phone so won't be able to contact my roommate either.

So... unknown city late at night + jet lag + carrying luggage + not knowing my address + no one to meet me there = adventure... right? Bring it on.

Will write more interesting things and add pictures as I'm in Japan. I really got a kick out of blogging last summer, and (maybe it's just me being a total narcissist) but when I had something good to write about I think I managed to convey some pretty cool experiences and insights.