I arrived in Japan safely yesterday. It is very nice here. Very clean. And not that I did not enjoy them in the other Asian countries, but it is refreshing to get away from the squatter toilets. lol. I am at this internet cafe not far from our port. Yesterday we just wandered around town, shopped a bit. (did not buy anything because it is super expensive here) went to a nice dinner. It is kinda hard for vegetarians here, but I have been getting by. Today we went ...

I arrived in Qing Dao today. The train ride was only 9 hours and it was nothing compared to the train ride to Beijing. I just pretty much slept the whole way. There were a lot of students from SAS on our same train. It was fun to swap stories, pretty much everybody had an amazing time in China. I honestly cannot believe that all we have is Japan, then it is back to the United States! It feels like I have not been there in forever! Unfortunately we only get less t...

Ok, so I don't even know where to begin to try and tell you about China. It was amazing. What I did here was independent travel, nothing was through SAS, and it was me, Ally, Ellie, Korynn, Jordan, and Jason. (now you know who all the pictures are of.) We left Hong Kong on Tuesday and took a 25 hour train ride to Beijing. It was not as bad as I thought it would be. When it was time to get off the train, I was totally ready to be off, but it was a good time. We pl...

Ok everybody, I did it. I updated the blogs. Sorry it took me so long, but it was not for lack of trying. The first time I tried to do it, my computers wireless was not working. Then I tried to go to the internet café but my flashdrive wasn't working. Then I tried borrowing my friends laptop to do it on there, but the internet was so slow on the ship, I couldn't even get the blog page to load. The only time I can sign on and upload these pictures is late at ...

Today we got up early and went to the Cu Chi Tunnels. It was very interesting. It is especially interesting to hear about the war from the other side. The Cu Chi Tunnels were really the only thing that I did involving the Vietnam war, there were some museums and such but so much focus is all about the war, I was more interested in learning about the culture and people living in it today. But the Tunnels were pretty cool. We got to crawl through one of them and it...