So the Olympics started last week and I have been watching it religiously! Gymnastics have been awesome. The Japanese men's gymnastics team was phenomenal, winning the gold medal in the team finals. The US struggled after a Japanese judge explained to them 2 days before competition that the rules had changes and some routines they did at the ( Read more... )

Well, I have been back in the good ol' U.S. of A. for a little over a week now. The flight was wonderful (except for excruciating in my inner eyes when descending in an airplane), I had no problem with the traveling letters (my replacement for a lost passport), and none of my luggage got lost (though I thought it had been on the flight from ( Read more... )

Well, today I fly back to the good ol' U.S. of A. My time in Japan is officially over (surprisingly, after the idiotic situation of losing my passport ( Read more... )

Anyway, just finished my first ever performance of hip-hop dancing in front of many dozens of people. I feel good about it and accomplished. It was fun. Now it's off to the afterparty (uchiage) with "the family." I'm out!

But for now, I'll just dance and think about you.

Tonight I had a small birthday party with some of my favorite people here at school. It was a good night. We went to an izakaya (Japanese pub, of sorts with food and alcohol) and had some decent food and drink. Daniel was there. So was a young English lad named Alex who has become a very good friend of mine and I will miss him a lot when I ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday to me! I'm now 22. One year closer to being an old man.

Because of a lack of anything better to do, I am going to update my journal ( Read more... )

Why is it that I lack hte energy to even attempt to update my journal sometimes ( Read more... )

Similar to a gamefaq, this entry may contain spoilers. If you do not blah blah blah ( Read more... )