Sayonara

If you’ve stumbled upon this blog by chance, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Mehan and for one year, I lived and worked in a small town called Oirase, in northern Japan. This blog contains my thoughts, ramblings and photographs from a year of working, traveling and living in the Japanese countryside. So pull up a seat, pour yourself a cup of tea and let me tell you a tale.

To my loyal readers, thanks for your unwavering interest in this blog during the last year. Don’t be fooled by my often snarky attitude: my year spent in Japan was one of the most enjoyable, interesting and challenging journeys I’ve yet had the pleasure of embarking upon. I met some really incredible people over in Japan and I certainly owe no small part of the fun I had to them.

If you’re interested in teaching English in Japan, I really can’t recommend the JET Program more highly. While there are now a number of private English schools in Japan, none of them offer you the security, level of compensation or prestige of JET.

As for me, well, I’m hitting the dusty trail with a satchel on my back, heading west into the murky depths of America, with a dream in my head and a song on my lips. Okay, not really. I’m currently working as an editor for a publishing company in Washington DC, but that’s almost the same thing, right? As I left Japan in July, it didn’t really make any sense for me to continue writing this blog. I did briefly consider starting up a new blog but really, the last thing the world needs right now is another jaded hipster peddling his opinion of MP3s on the internet. I would like to start up another blog someday but I think that I’ll wait for the right idea to present itself to me before I do. Until then, you can check out my reviews at DCist, where I’m a contributor to their music section.

It really makes me happy to look back on this blog and to remember all of the good times we had in that crazy place called Japan. I sure hope you feel the same way.

-Mehan