BEWARE, I LIVE

Hello, Internet.

Man, what do you say at the beginning of it all? I'm so bad at writing the beginning of things. Middle? I'm good. Endings? No problem. But the beginning? Oy. Reminds me of my thesis.

Okay, right, so, here we go. Welcome to my blog. I'm Nigel. If you're reading this, you probably know me, but for the newly initiated I'll give you the short short version.

I'm a guy, just graduated college from Georgia Tech in the U.S. of A., and I decided to follow my life-long dream of living in Japan for a little while. I reside on the third floor of a small apartment building in the sleepy ghost town of Hitachi, Japan. I teach English for a company called AEON. My contract began February 24th 2007, and will end (pending any calamitous events) March 24th 2008.

I'm keeping this blog as a repository for all the things that have (and will) happen to me...for the things I will do and see and eat.

Now, for the part that I've been waiting for. I miss you. All. I miss every last one of you and I wish that I was back in the States right now. At the exact same time, I love it here, and in 10 months it will be hard to leave this place. I just want you all to know that, like all things in my life, I exhibit two opinions, equally strong, about my current situation. But, and I say this with the absolute resolution and clarity that I once uttered my plans to come to Japan, I will return to the States. They are, and forever will be, my home.

This blog will begin with a series of backdated entries. They will, in chronological order, be taken from a small notebook I've had with me since I walked on the plane in Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. I've kept a record, as best I can, of the things I've done and seen. I have two cameras, a Casio QV-R62 6 megapixel digital camera, and the 2 megapixel camera built into my Samsung 706SC cell phone.

I've done my best to capture the things I see with either or both of them, but I am only human. I forget one or both of them at home, I'm slow, or I'm too occupied. I'll do my best to put something in this blog every day. Hopefully, with the time difference, those of you in the States will wake up every morning with something new and exciting from me to read about.

So, with that, I bid you welcome and well-met.

Update: crap, I thought I'd posted this already. Sorry for the whole lot of nothing! More to come later tonight (err....your morning)