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This is a three-part series about my year as an exchange student in Sapporo, Japan. Japan greets me with kind, alien arms. Tokyo is eerily silent, then overwhelmingly full of buzzing sounds. Each street vacillates between the deafness of being plunged underwater, then breaking the surface to a crash of blinding lights. I only pass through, intrigued and intimidated by this new world. When I confess to restaurant owners that I’ll be studying in Hokkaido, they all gush in awe,

A full year of Japanese tea ceremony training now brings you the complete guide to being the perfect guest.

If you are just starting to build your career, here is my one advice: Put yourself out there.

I believe I am devoted to my best friends deeper than I am to lovers.

Two authors, and I can't help but think: what is the value in death?

The only constant in life is change.