My Kansai Gaidai Student Exchange

So in Japan, family is important. I’ve got a family here in Japan! not a host family but a family of friends! wooo.

Left to right; Jace, Jesse, Angie, Jamie, Mitch, Charlie

Left to right; Annie, Jamie, Ashley, Charlie, Jesse, Chris, Jace, Angie

Left to right; Charlie, Jamie, Ashley, Mitch, Joe, Angie

My family includes the following! with NOTES.

Joe – my theme park buddy, bromance partner and shares Angie’s bed with me.

Angie – girlfriend / annoying poohead and a non-cheesy person but is trying to change!

Jace –  Jace is Jace.

Charlie – approves of me! pterodactyl and her nan goes everywhere with her.

Chris – hiking buddy, chicken whisperer and talker.

Jesse – can just go fuck off or go to hell..

Annie – are you okay? annie, are you okay?

Jamie – nampa king and guy with the BEST host family.

Ashley – another AUSSIE! but from Sydney.. no no I like Sydney.

Andrew – broken arm, Tigger, knows where to be and when.

Sunny – can cook, can Japanese but most of all CAN DANCE!

Alex – Canadian but not as much as Canada, better basketballer than Joe.

Canada – CANADA!!

And those are my family peeps.

This is the first post of my episode (mini blog) of me, Mitchell Pearson in Japan on student exchange at Kansai Gaidai. Now, there isn’t alot to cover here that I haven’t covered on my main blog. Buuut, to recap.

This is it!

Woo, my name is Mitchell Pearson and I have been selected (in additon to Jace) to go to Kansai Gaidai for 9 months, or two semesters.. however you want to read that. I’m really really excited even now and I’ve still got just over 4 months to wait until I land in Osaka’s International Airport. I’ve been studying Japanese for a few semesters now but I haven’t really been taking it seriously until I got accepted into this program. So, the purpose of this blog is to well.. blog the entire experience and hopefully help those or just entertain / excite others that read it. Seeing as I have a while to wait I’ll be blogging for just over a year and will be detailing the application process, visas and all that, getting over there and then whatever else happens afterwards. Seem pretty generic but even now, at this point I am not completely aware of what to expect. So there’s a recap, I’ll post again soon in an effort to make this blog pretty comprehensive.

Until next time.