Hello

Hello friends!

I've finally set up my travel blog for my semester in Japan, as promised to several of you. I don't have too much to say at this point, except that I'm excited to go (leaving in 17 days!), and am worried about the hundreds of kanji that I've forgotten over the past 8 months. Looking at the pieces of paper I keep finding around my room with characters diligently written over and over, I am impressed that they didn't stick forever. Tomorrow I will go to pick up my student visa from the Japanese consulate in San Francisco. I feel so official. Anyway, I will try to update frequently, and I even made a Flickr account so I can share photo albums. I hope you enjoy!

Also, if you have an account on Skype, I want to talk to you! My username is marikoandme.


In parting, I leave you to contemplate this poem that I wrote in elementary school and rediscovered today while digging through boxes.

"Don't Eat a Bun" by Mariko Meyer, age 10(?)

Be careful when you eat only a bun!
If you eat them, they might make you run.
That happens mostly of you're a nun.
Then, you should have none.
You might run all the way to the sun!
Don't worry, the sun won't have a gun.
Don't eat a bun!


Warm tidings,
Mariko