My blog is an accident. Not the kind of “I just got hit by a car, woke up in the hospital with no legs, and went onto crusade for more wheelchair access in public places” accident, rather it is more like the “Oops, I’m accidentally pregnant and I guess I did sort of want a kid, ok let’s keep it” accident. [Side note – Now that I’m reading this again, that analogy seems kind of stupid. But I also couldn’t think of anything else.] I think everyone starts a blog at one point in their life – popular starting points are during the first couple weeks of college, during study abroad, and directly after graduation as you figure out what you want to do in the “real world.” A couple friends and I started study abroad blogs in the weeks before we boarded flights to our respective countries for our weeks, semester, or year of study abroad. Of course, all of us promised to update all the time with fantastic stories of our time abroad. So, naturally, none of us kept up with it for more than a month. Except I had one distinct blogging advantage – Ryosuke. We were [...]
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