The First Blog.

It is hard for me to think of a way on how to start this blog. But I think I’ll start out best by introducing myself. Though this blog will mostly be read by people who will most likely already know me, an introduction is in place.

I’m a 20 year old Dutch girl. From the Netherlands. I’m currently halfway through my study Communication going to my third year. I’ve always been fascinated with Japan. One of my biggest pass times is drawing, drawing anime and manga, so Japan is kind of the land of my dreams. But Apart from that, the cultural side of the country is beautiful and something I wanted to experience firsthand myself. When this chance was offered to me by school I took it.

I’m not even there yet, I still have a month to go before I’m actually flying, before I’m landing there. The first of September will be the day I leave. But already it’s been a long and hard road, one that will only get longer and even harder.  I’ve never been far away from home or for such a long time. So that alone is something that I have never done before.


I have a lot of support though. My internet and online sister Steph has really helped me with alot. As have my other friends. They all support me along the way and all help me get there each time a little bit closer. All of them, my lj friends. my family as well. 

And apart from just that, the things alone already I had to do to get to this point really went quite beyond my imagination. I think it would be best to start at the beginning.

Cause it all started with getting the idea, then getting the opportunity and then convincing the head of the department of my education to let me go. Convincing him with meetings and with papers, with ways to show him that a trip to Japan would fit within the plans of communication and that it had to do with communication. But also that a girl from the country, a small country like me not used to the big city could make it to Japan and could continue this.

In the end which may have been close to taking up to 4 months I was allowed to go. I had permission. And then came mountains and mountains of paperwork and all in all with regular school I sometimes felt like drowning. More than once though ‘what the hell have I gotten myself into?’ and right now I’ve come at the footstep that I can’t go back. No more. I have to do this. Even if I had many sleepless night worrying about school, about what was to come. I have to do this. It’s my dream and if I don’t do it I’ll regret it forever.

I have to do this for myself. For myself to prove that I can do this, I am strong enough to pull through to go there to realize my dream. In this last half year I’ve filled in more papers in my life than ever, ran over places in the school to talk to people to take care of things that I didn’t or had never realized how big the school actually was.

I talked to a exchange student from Japan who goes to the school where I’ll be going, I’m no busy and already a week away studying Hiragana and I still have kantana to do there so much! Too much to tell at once so with this last few lines I’ll conclude my first post. My first post was to introduce and in my follow posts there will be more details, photo’s of my adventure to come and which will pass.

More details and everything. Till next Time.