卒業 and 来日

So it has been a little over a year since I left Japan and last wrote in this blog, and I figured I would start up again since I'm going to be going back in about 3 weeks. That's right, I'm going to give it another shot, this time for 6 weeks in 埼玉 Saitama as a business intern at Saitama Co-op (they have an adorable website), which sells groceries. I'm not entirely sure what I will be doing yet, but I know that it will entail stocking shelves and learning about the Japanese business world. The internship is courtesy of the Ohio-Saitama Company Internship Program, which I was eligible for due to being a student at Oberlin, where I am *newly graduated* from. So for now, I'm sitting at home in Los Angeles, brushing up on my 警護, trying to learn Korean (time to conquer the next language perhaps?), and composing my shopping list for things to stock up on while I'm in Japan. I really want to visit Osaka while I'm there, but I'm not sure how realistic that is, given money and time. I still don't know very many details about the program, so I guess we'll just have to see how things pan out. I think I'm ready to try Japan again, and I can't really get better at Japanese without being there. I'm also going to shoot for taking the JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) in December... 2級. They made 1級 even harder this year so we'll see when I get there. Maybe after graduate school, if I ever get there, either. HA, the future.