My Kansai Gaidai Student Exchange

So I’m listening to Apologize by OneRepublic and feeling as if the physco babble is about to start. 

Well here goes, ummm. So this post in essence is about nothing in particular but has a certain theme to it, the quintessence nature of a friendship that starts out as nothing more than a common interest. For those curious, Japan.

I really have to give it to Facebook, they really live up to their bold claim. Don’t know what I’m talking about? Facebook, helping people from all around the world connect – or something to that effect. =\

For those that read and do not know, there is a Facebook group called Kansai Gaidai Fall 09 — and somehow, it has brought a group of people together in a way that I thought was impossible for Facebook, naive on my part considering Facebook is Facebook.. but enough about Facebook, it sucks in general right? yep.

Puzzling stuff.

But onwards, I’ve gotta honestly say, that I’ve made alot of friends out of this group and I’m sure that a few of them I will continue to talk to even beyond the scope of Japan, which is really ridiculous to start talking about as I haven’t even started my legen… wait for it, I hope your not lactose intolerant… DAIRY! adventures in Japan yet. But yeah, I just can’t believe how innocuous these friendships can be, starting from a simple ‘heyy’ or ‘hihi’ and extending into the realms far past your personal fort knox / boundaries. I can’t begin to grasp the silly concept of what this will spell out for me in the end but I think it has to do with something I like to call the mother-fucking Internet.

The Internet is great, but it can be a bitch some times. For the purpose of this post the Internet has become a rampant internetworked evil demon! it allows you to establish ties with other people, allowing the creation of friendships and whatnot whilst doing it’s evil deed of preventing you from actually doing what real friends do. Now, I don’t want to get into a discussion about the semantics of the phrase ‘real friends’, again for the purpose of this post, it’s a friend that you get to see and get to do stuff with and particularly enjoy the company of. The Internet while great and all, stops you from doing much of the things you would normally do with a friend and for this I’ll go to gripes with it.

Being said, would I have it any other way? would I rather say no, fuck you Internet, I’ll wait and meet these people for the first time in Japan?

The answer is no. =P

I count down almost everyday until I get to meet these wonderful people.

EXAMS ARE DONE!

This means the entire ‘hey, hey there — not you, yeah you. You’re going to Japan for a year! congrats’ thing is starting to sink in and it’s really making the crazy in me bubble up inside and spew out a little which hey, come on now. It isn’t a horrible event to unfold and witness! so I’ll take it in my stride if you say I’m a tad crazy / over the top / weird / bonkers or whatever because hey, I know I just might be letting off a little extra happiness which doesn’t translate well through whatever medium I choose to exert myself with.

Where to from here?

But yeah, obviously happy, but the next real question for me, and probably alot of other exchange students going to Kansai Gaidai, is what to do now? like sure, I’ve got a job that I work a few days a week and that’s all well and all.. but what else?
Is there anything I need to specifically prepare for? hmm, well let’s see.. I’m going to a country that speaks an entirely different language from which I am far from comfortable in. So MAYBE I should do a little Japanese study eh? yeah, okay.. that’s nice.. but there is a slight problem, I just finished all my exams and whatnot so I don’t particularly feel like doing any study again.. ever. Sure that’ll change in the coming weeks but as of now, for the life of me I can’t find anything else to keep myself preoccupied with apart from a few coding projects I wanted to get started, one which I’m going to pitch do ye old Kansai Gaidai exchange students on Facebook on the weekend.

So yeah, what now you ask? I don’t know. I guess the next week or so will be celebrating the completion of another semester and looking forward to Kansai Gaidai but atm I can’t figure out what to do next.

That’s me, over and out. Got any suggestions? lol.