After 4 long years of hard work and lots of frustrations, I finally managed to finish my Master’s and will be graduating soon! There have also been great times of course, I came to this country at 24 yrs old, and I’m now 28, I can definitely say that I have done a great deal of growing up here, and I’m glad to finally see some of the results of that, both on professional, academic and personal levels. So, for those in the Kyoto Area: The Exhibition of Graduation Works 2010 of the Faculty of Manga and the Graduate School of Art of Kyoto Seika University will open on FEB. 16TH-20TH, at the Kyoto International Manga Museum, starting at 10:00-18:00 each day, free admission. Please drop by anytime to check out manga and anime made by my graduating class ( I will also be showing my graduation work). Hope to see you there! ~

On a side note, I was recently interviewed by Hiroko Sasaki, producer and MC of a Japanese internet radio show called 「世界の留学生」(Foreign Students of the World), where she talks with foreign students in the Kansai area about their studies and projects here in Japan. Its the first time I ever did an interview for anyone, so I was very nervous (plus it was in Japanese, and I’m not very good at it yet, so I made a lot of embarrasing mistakes!) but it was fun nonetheless Please check it out and tell me what you think! You can check it out here (http://e-radio.cc/radio_blog/modules/gnavi/index.php?lid=45)