Leaving on a jet plane

16 August 2004. 12:25 PM.
LAX – Los Angeles, California.

So I’m at the airport waiting to leave and it hits me that this is going to be a lot harder than I let myself believe previously. I wonder how much is going to change in the next year. I’m going to come back from these 10 months different, but different how? Maybe a different set of friends; definitely better at Japanese and more conscious of Japanese economic conditions; but what else? Will I still love Japan? Will I still be ready to start my career? Will I be a better person? Or scarred from the experience? Hahaha I’m so melodramatic when I write journals. Though it's cool using my power book in the airport terminal. I feel like the epitome of hip. Oh, a hot girl just walked by.