Back from Japan

I got back from Japan a couple of days ago. I came back to school for a pretty relaxed weeks, probably because we have our midterm next week. Today, October 3rd, is a national holiday, and tomorrow all of the foreign students at Sogang will participate in Sogang's yearly cultural festival. it is currently taking place, from October 1st to the 5th.

Japan was truly wonderful. It was so great to see old friends, and all of my former host families. I spent the first half in Niigata, and then I spent the rest in Tokyo. I also checked out the small village of Kamakura, the former capital of Japan almost one thousand years ago, the location of the great Buddha, the giant 35 foot Buddha statue.

As for new developments, there are a bunch of live music clubs by where I live, particularly one right next door, at which my friend and I played before I went to Japan. The owners want us to play once a week, and I am more than willing. As for the documentary. I was given a camera to film myself during my trip in Japan, and this Saturday they are funding my trip to the Busan International Film Festival, the largest and most important film festival in Asia. They will film my entire trip there. This will be the first major shooting of the documentary, and beyond that they will probably start following around Seoul and in to school and what not. I am so excited. Busan is about 3 hours away on the KTX, which is like the equivalent to the Japanese bullet train.
It is a city on the south coast of South Korea, and it has a ferry service to Fukuoka, Japan.

I have made a bunch of Korean friends at parties and what not, and they have become instrumental in the improvement of my language skills. Little by little, my Korean is getting better and better. It is all about getting past the first three months, and then it is smooth sailing from there on, it's been that way with the German and the Japanese.

FIGHTING!