I'm a student of International Relations and Modern Languages at Beloit College in Beloit, WI. This means that, until recently, I've been holed up on a cold, windy hill-top in Wisconsin reading German literature, learning Japanese, and listening to very 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. Last semester, my studies brought me to Hirakata, Japan for a little language study and personal enrichment and now I've headed off to Berlin in the spring for more of the same.
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 Wolf Biermann, refrain from suing me for copyright infringement.
