I was sitting on the computer one day browsing my 43things.com list & saddened by the fact that I’ve done barely any of them so at that point I decided I could kill three birds with one stone so to speak & decided to go to Japan to see Bright Eyes in concert at Summer Sonic. Besides being a massive Bright Eyes fan, I had always wanted to visit Japan. I didn’t have anyone to go with and had never travelled overseas by myself, I had a few weeks to brush up on what little Japanese I knew, and I came down with the flu pretty bad two days before I left.

Despite all this, it was one of the most exhilirating and eye-opening two weeks of my life. I realised alot of things about myself (one being, it gets lonely to travel alone despite my solitary personality) and I loved my experience in Japan and the Japanese people I met.

I’m hoping a little bit of that spontaneity I showed then will come through in my everyday life because I found it to be really exciting and enjoyable.