Wafukari

The University of West Florida, who I am doing my exchange through, has added a link to my website on the Study Abroad page. Not only does this mean that I actually have to try and use proper grammar, but it also means that I will get a lot of visits from new people. For those new people visiting my Blog, I hope you get some enjoyment from it. This is, however, a personal Blog and completely under my control. All posts and comments are approved by me. So I guess let me tell you a little about my Blog and even a little about myself.

First off, I guess a personal introduction. My name is Josh and I’m going to Japan. I am still new to the whole Blogging thing, so hopefully I will eventually figure out what I’m doing. Some of this will be new news for old visitors. I recently just realized that I have never given any information about my school, where in Japan I’m going, or even what I’m going to study. So lets start with the school that I will be attending.
Daito Bunka University, and if you are Japanese and reading my page 大東文化大学. This university is the same university as one of my very good friends Akai Teruaki. Through him I heard about the exchange program they had, and decided to attend the same college. There are 2 campuses. One campus is in Tokyo and the other in Saitama. I will be going to the one in Saitama. The campus is beautiful, there are pictures on the site if you can find them, and I wanted to go somewhere that was different than the students that have studied abroad. Saitama isn’t too far from Tokyo so I will still be able to visit regularly. Now, what am I going to study? SURPRISE! I’m going to study Japanese, but that isn’t all. I am very interested in Japanese calligriphy and Daito Bunka has a fantastic calligraphy program. I have studied and completed all four of UWF’s Japanese courses, and I wanted to continue my training. So, I figrued where better to train than in Japan.
I am really looking forward to my trip. I have a lot of friends that I will get to visit and I get the opportunity of a lifetime to stay in Japan for one year. To all my friends in Japan: I will see you soon!!