Each time I take a look at this site, I feel kind of bad for coming up with a posting schedule and then never actually holding to that schedule. College has its ups and downs, so its hard to figure out exactly when I'll have time to get a post up, or if there's anything to post about. Besides classes homework, and work, I don't really do a whole lot that I think you guys and gals would be interested in.

I suppose you want to know what the title is all about. You do, don't you? Well, good if you said yes, and too bad if you said no, because here I go!

The UC system has a very strong Education Abroad Program that features summer-, semester-, or year-long courses to many countries, including England, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, Mexico, and Japan. I went to an information session to learn more about getting some time over in Japan, and I was surprised to find out that they had a year-long program. I jumped on that so fast it would have made your head spin! How awesome would that be, to go live in Japan and learn at one of their universities for an entire year? Sure, its an entirely new culture and language, but I've always been fascinated with the Japanese way of life. After a report I researched about the differences between business culture in Japan and America, I've had a strong desire to perhaps get into international business with Japan, or at the very least minor in the Japanese language here at UCR.

I told a friend about my plan to try and get to Japan for the next school year, and he was interested in going, too. So now, the two of us are tag-teaming the application process and supporting each other on our quest to learn abroad. The academic requirements are tough, but I think we can both meet with the minimum 3.0 GPA by the end of the year AND come up with the money we'll need to fund this little expedition.

Other than that, not much to report on the business-end of things. I do have a couple projects that I'm currently working on, and web work has once again started to trickle my way, so money is coming in one way or another. I'm sick of EER and Thales and Metche and a few other people being the only readers, so I'm going to try (once again) to get some kind of focus down. I know it'll be some kind of tech- or web-related theme, but I haven't decided which would give me more things to write about.