My last exam was this Friday, a day where my time at the University of Manchester ends for more than one year. I am going to Japan for ten months starting in approximately 3 months.
The town where I'm going is Tsukuba, 45 minutes to Tokyo by express train. Tsukuba is a small university town (population 207,394) with 40% of Japan's researchers living and working there. Tsukuba is surrounded by nature and even a mountain (822m). You can imagine that I'm going to buy an old bike and cycle the whole area :D.
In Tsukuba I'm going to attend Tsukuba university classes and work in a lab at university.
I can't believe that I'm going there. 6 months ago I even didn't know about it, it all happened so fast. My feelings towards this: confusion, angst, overwhelm, nervousness and a high portion of curiosity...