my blog will be original and super-cool.

Today, I’ve spent more than four hours reading the Light Fellowship blogs. Some of them are more boring than the 86^th episode of Indiana Jones and the Egyptian Skull. Some of them are super fun. So, I have made two major decisions. Number one – my blog will be super fun. Number two – my blog will be original. Oh, yeah. Here’s my multi-fold strategy for making my blog the kinda blog that people check every morning before the NY Times website, the sort of a blog that makes the blogger look cool and sexy, careless but sophisticated:

a.       I won’t be covering the basics. I’ll let my Light fellows do it. I’m sure there’ll be at least one person to cover extensively housing, transportation, getting a cellphone, etc. I’ll be writing about the cool stuff.

b.      My blog will be as much Nihon as possible. I will be hanging out with real Japanese kids. I don’t know how I’m gonna do it. But I know I will. If I go clubbing, I wanna go where nihonjins go, I’ll be eating where Nihonjins eat. And by the end of the summer, I will become a Nihonjin!!!! Well, maybe not exactly. But pretty close, nevertheless.

c.       I will write about struggles. No one wants to read about the amazing linguistic advances of Rene Bystron. Instead, people wanna see him struggle in classes, on the street, when meeting a hostfamily, when tasting an unknown tabemono. I will write about how I’m still the dumbest kid in the class. I will write about how I think it’s impossible to fit a three-digit number of Kanjis into my head. I will write about how I probably won’t understand a word of what the sensee are saying. And if, due to some strange incident of a major gain in psychic powers, I won’t be struggling, I’ll still make up stuff. Cause since the creation of horror movies, everybody loves to see a stuck-up Ivy leaguer fighting to survive.

With such a grand strategy, I cannot but succeed. So….ladies and gentlemen, say bye to NYtimes, and get ready for the Summer Wave in Tokyo.