This blog has been dormant for too long. I've tried to write a few posts since returning back to America from Japan, but I couldn't figure out why I never kept up with it. I love to travel and explore, and I love to write, so what was the problem? When I created this blog I did so partially to keep my friends and family in the loop while I spent a year of my life exploring a foreign country, but my biggest driving factor was providing information. I researched every corner of the web before I set off on my year abroad in Japan. I wanted to soak up every bit of information I could about life in Japan, the culture overseas, what my school would be like, and everything in between. Looking at pictures, watching videos, and reading everything there was to read consumed me and heightened my excitement immensely. So, I had decided that I wanted to make my trip informative for future study abroad students who would likely be doing the same scouring I had don...