Heading To Japan Soon

I thought I'd set up a blogsite quick that all of my lovely family and friends can check for updates as I travel to and through Japan. I don't know if I'll keep it up after that, but this will be the first country that I visit where I've been told I'll likely have reliable internet access at least once every four days! What a luxury!
For those of you who don't know, I will be going on this journey for a class. We will be studying ritual and performance in Japan. I'll use this adventure to complete my senior project upon my return. While we're there we'll be visiting temples and a monastary, watching professional theatre performances, visiting sites, learning the culture, doing a homestay, and creating a collaborative dance piece with students of the University of Hiroshima based on our reactions to the atomic bomb memorial museum. I"ll update more later, but thanks for checking in!