Preparation

I'm so excited! In May, I was nominated by my Japanese professor to go to Japan as a part of my university's Kakehashi Project, which is a sort of exchange program for undergraduates.  My professor had pulled two of my classmates and me aside after class to say that she was nominating us, and about a week and a half later, me and another classmate were selected to go to Japan! We were so worried because, while we were the best in our class, we were only in Japanese 101, and students from higher-level classes were being nominated as well, but I'm so happy that I'm being given this opportunity!

Right now I don't have much information at all on what we're supposed to do.  All that I really know is that pretty much everything that I can think of has been paid for, and that the trip starts on July 27.  I just got my passport a few days ago, and while I now have some clue of what we're going to be doing (I know that I'm supposed to present a 10 minute presentation on America and my university, for example), the details are a little shaky.

Hopefully more information will be coming in soon; when it does, I'll be sure to share some of it with you all.  I can't wait for it to begin!