Exciting Trip to Japan!

Hello there,

Wow! Time passes reeeally really fast. I can't believe it's already July and so many things are creeping up on me. I'm about to have one busy year...

I am so excited I am setting off for Japan tomorrow for a week for an international study tour run by my University degree's program. Our tour will start in Tokyo and we will travel for a week, visiting shrines, temples, museums and places that the uni and tour director would find, "culturally and historically significant." 

How intellectually stimulating.

I'm excited as our tour will be visiting Nara, Hiroshima and Kyoto as well, places I've only dreamt about going to before this. I'm especially excited for the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo as this is one place I've been dying to see!

As this is also a unit/subject for my course at uni we have been given some interesting readings to help us along the way. Even though it could sound a little boring so far I'm super excited to read them and hope that I can use them to understand Japanese society, culture and history over there.

I learnt a very little amount of Japanese in high school so fingers crossed that will help me through the week!

*books*

Other fun things are the sushi I guess :P yumm!

A present from my friend for my travels!

In September I will be going on exchange studies to the UK for a semester as well! I'll be studying in Central Central for the rest of the year and traveling on and off before and after semester. I'll be doing some really cool things over there (literally it'll be like 4 degrees or something >< ), so do be sure to keep checking out what I'm upto!

Tomorrow I will be stepping out of Australia for the first time ever and by next January I will have been to 10 or more. That is just phenomenal to me! I feel super lucky and thankful to have been given this opportunity.

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Packing is not the most fun thing in the world I've realized and I really ought to get back to it. I'll be posting updates on my travels here on my blog as well as on twitter and instagram. Check them out if you feel.

https://twitter.com/RubyLeighTonks

http://instagram.com/rubyleightonks

 :)

Thanks for reading!