On top of Tokyo Tower
About a year ago I came across a wonderful blog about an Australian (unfortunately his site is no longer available) blogger who packed his backpack and decided to hit the road. He traveled through parts of Europe and Asia. When I read through his travels it had sparked an idea and an insane need for me to travel to a foreign country. Fed up and stressed out with my job at the time, and getting over the loss of my aunt I decided to take the risk and leave. Originally I wanted to go to Europe, but seeing the exchange rate from the Dollar to the Euro I figured that I’d better save that trip for another day, and decided on Japan. During the early months of 2008 I did a lot of research as to what to do while I was there, and hopefully learn the very basics of the language as well. After a weeks of watching the market for tickets go up and down at Expedia I finally bought my ticket. Right after I bought my ticket I felt this crazy feeling in my gut. It was that scared, uncertain, yet excited gut feeling. I knew then that there was absolutely no turning back. From then on I worked hard everyday after work on planning my trip as well as studying a little of the language, I even purchased a few books on amazon to help me out. My trip was my only driving thing at the time because everyday it just got worse and worse at work, with the constant lay offs, and threats. I so motivated that I even looked foward to working overtime in that hell hole of a stressed out enviroment. Everyday I looked up culture differences, language, and places to go. I even purchased a J-Rail in order to get from one city to another. I was in a great positive mental state of mind during that period of time.
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