<![endif] Archive Ask me anything Failure to Assimilate Lack of understanding beyond cultural barriers Failure to Assimilate When I arrived in Tokyo, stricken with jetlag and beyond exhausted, I believed that I would be too tired to really endure the city, to be able to take it in, however; what I found had l eft me in unfathomable all consuming awe with what I have witnessed, nothing could have truly prepared me for it, no matter how much I had read, how much I had studied, this place covered by vast titanic concrete structures reaching to the sky, looming above overpasses and brilliant with culture, a culture that I am faced with yet have very little understanding of, left me in fear and wonder about what my future may hold. This wont be a place for posts about delicious and cheap restaurants or festivals and events, this is whe...