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I wonder what it’ll be like…

Posted on 15. May, 2002 @ 3:23 pm by harvey in Culture Views: 46

Well, less than 20 days until I hop on the plane and head to Japan for the next huge chunk of my life. I wonder what it is going to be like. Tokyo, geesh. Actually I wish I could have found a job in some other part of Japan, but everything I could find was in Tokyo. Nagoya, Kobe, Osaka, even Hokkaido would have been interesting. Luckily, the job I got allows for a lot of travel, so I think that after six months or so I’ll be out of Tokyo and maybe even to some ‘inaka’ country side place. That’ll be awesome.

Until now I have spent my time slacking through college and doing random part-time jobs where I still manage to have enough free time to do stuff like this. It’s been fun!

Indiana University never disappoints with lots of intersting things to offer. Even though the campus isn’t ‘really’ very diverse, if you pick the right places to hang out you can be surrounded by diversity.

I like the small town feel of Bloomington, yet the number of interesting college kids keeps the town interesting and always moving.

Bloomington residents seem to have a lot of pride. Downtown bloomington can be described as ‘pretty freakin small’, but at the same time, most of the shops are unique to Bloomington

When StarBucks first opened up the locals protested, smashing the store window with bricks. This was around the same time as the whole ‘WTO’ thing was going on, so tensions were high.