Angelica In Tokyo

I almost forgot I had this journal.
So maybe I should write in it, ne?  Well I came to Japan last November to study Japanese and well its been complete FAIL.
Why do I say that?  I can’t make conversation very well in japanese and my grades in school are mediocre.  I am sick of going to [...]

So I haven’t done the best job at updating but I have been lost in thought with things.  I have been on vacation from school so I have mostly been in a slump just reflecting on my life and the things I feel like I should change about myself. 
Well Christmas wasn’t anything but a normal day [...]

So somehow I got an interview at a local british pub called Footnik right next to Osaki Station on the Yamanote train line. Basically like  60-70 percent of the guests are japanese and the rest english speakers.
Holy crap! I don’t even know how I pulled it off.  My homestay mom and her boyfriend know the  [...]

I don’t even know where to start.
I have been in Tokyo for 3 weeks now.  It’s interesting I will say at best.   I remember once when I loved taking the trains, but now I sometimes dread the long commutes.
I started a conversation course at Kai Japanese Language School in Shin-Okubo.  I wasn’t satisfied with the [...]

Right now I am at Lambert Airport waiting to board the airplane for Chicago and then Chicago to Tokyo.
I totally feel unprepared for this.  It feels like all of this crept up on me so fast.  To be completely honest though, I don’t really think there was truly any real amount of preparing to make [...]

On Monday, November 9, I got a call from my mom just as I was heading out to drop off some stuff for dry cleaning and go to the mall to pick up some last minute items. She told me that she was going out and therefore if my certificate of eligibility came that [...]

So, yes I have disappeared for quite a while.  Essentially, life happened.  Though that really doesn’t give many details, it kinda sums up things a bit.
I didn’t end up starting in October as I had planned.  The dentist was part of the problem as I had a tooth that required immediate attention and *coughs* immediate [...]