Renaissance

After not updating in over 6 months I will now attempt to resurrect this blog. This is for the benefit of posterity and my own memories. While reading the blog that I updated daily while I studied abroad in France, I realized how much of my own experiences memories could come flooding back just by re-reading my own words. I read detail after detail that I would have completely forgotten had I not preserved them in digital writing. And while it is partially too late for that, I don't want to have no record of my experiences in Japan. Moreso than my time in France, Japan is an unforgettable and irreplaceable experience that I will continually think about, remember fondly and reference for the rest of my life. I want to be able to re-read the thoughts that I thought while I was there. But, the thing that kept me from updating before was the pressure I put on myself to produce quality blog entries. I obsessed over the writing and constantly berated myself for being too boring or not including pictures. This time I don't care. I'm not trying to win any awards or readers. I just want to record my memories, as simple as that. So I probably won't be including many pictures here, because it is tedious and tiresome and I can look at the pictures on my Facebook or computer. So here's to a better and more collected record of my experience than my thoughts and memories can preserve.