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.