12 hours away ...

In less than 12 hours I'll be on my way to Asia! I've just about finished packing -- I may need to go through my clothes again and take some out -- but otherwise I'm all set. I can't believe I'm actually going abroad again; once was amazing but I'd have never thought that I'd be doing something like this again the next summer! For those of you who may not know exactly what I'll be doing, I'm going on the Pan Pacific Study Tour, a 3-week jaunt through East Asia. Basically the timeline for our travels looks like this:

-Tomorrow (May 13): Fly to Tokyo
-May 14-May 18: Tokyo
-May 18: fly to Shanghai
...here's where it gets choppy ... and for the moment I can't seem to find my schedule. Anyway, we spend a couple of days in Shanghai and then go to:

-Hangzhou/Wuzen
-fly to Xian (for the terra cotta warriors!)
-and then fly to Beijing.
-After Beijing, we'll fly to Busan for the Pan Pacific business conference, and then on to Seoul. Our return will take us from Seoul to Tokyo to Dallas and back to Omaha on the 3rd of June.

Anyway, I was on a discussion board the other day for ultimate players in Tokyo and although no teams will be playing while I'll be there, someone did respond to see if I'd want to get together and throw and meet some of the ultimate players there. How cool is that?! As you may know, I'm slightly obsessed with ultimate and since I'm missing a tourney in Kansas City while I'm gone, I can think of no better way to make up for it than playing frisbee in Japan. There are also Beijing and Shanghai frisbee boards so maybe I'll actually get to play a full-out game over there. I sure hope so! Anyway, that's about it for now. I'm not sure how accessible computers will be but everytime I get on I'll be sure to update the blog -- I am required to keep a journal for class so I can just transpose everything onto the screen. Sweet! Talk at ya from the other side of the Pacific!