Who Knows

I’ve finally got some feedback from the Rotary. Good thing to, I was getting worried that they couldn’t find any host families for me. I know I haven’t posted anything here in months but there wasn’t a lot that went on during that time that had much to do with me going to Japan. Sandy, the person who runs the whole thing assured me that even though everything is a bit sluggish this year, that I shouldn’t worry. But still I can’t help but feel like something will come up and wreck the whole thing, it’s happened to other would-be exchange students from what I hear.

The information I got from the Rotary is information on where I am going, it said I’m going to D2700 Japan Rotary District. There is almost no information I could find about where that is. From what little I found there are three possible places I could be staying. The places are Yahata, Kitakyushu, and Fukuoka. All are pretty cool since they are all very close to the ocean. My favorite out of the three is Yahata. It’s not a huge major city, though it is a little bigger than Lancaster. It is 12 miles from the beach. It’s near Nagoya, which was were I thought I was going to be staying at first. The map of Japan at my Dojo shows that Nagoya is smack in the middle of a huge cluster of castles, ancient shrines, temples, and battlefields, making boredom in that place impossible. Yahata is a little ways east of Nagoya, just one prefecture away, so I’ll be close to all those sites anyways. And the place is on the south-western slope of Mt Fuji! And the volcano hasn’t erupted since 1707 so it’s due to blow up anytime I guess. I sure hope this will be the place I’ll be sent to, it seems like paradise.

Kitakyushu and Fukuoka aren’t bad places either, there is a castle as far as I know in Fukuoka. These two aren’t to far apart, they are on the northern part of the southern-most island of Kyushu. They are close to the ocean but they are almost as big as Nagoya, but at least it’s no Tokyo. I’ll probably be cut off from my friends on the mainland but all might not be lost, but the Rotary might let me travel that far, so it it’s not all that bad.