I'm a student of International Relations and Modern Languages at Beloit College in Beloit, WI. This means that up until this point in my education I've been holed up on a cold, windy hill-top in Wisconsin reading German literature, learning Japanese, and listening to extremely competent professors lecture to me about the political and inter-state goings on in the rest of the world.
All that has come to an end. This semester, my studies have brought me to Hirakata, Japan for a little language study and personal enrichment before I head off to Berlin in the spring for more of the same.
While the official purpose of my stay at Kansai Gaidai University is to improve my Japanese, my time here has allowed me to pursue my love for fine arts, something I've neglected somewhat over the course of my college career.
This blog exists both as a means of communitcating with family and friends back home and as a personal record of my experiences here. May all who stumble upon it--whether by chance or by my direction--read it, enjoy it, and if they are Walter Becker or Donald Fagen, refrain from suing me for copyright infringement.
