Roy W. Howard 2008

This blog is the record of the Roy W. Howard National Collegiate Reporting Competition media tour through South Korea and Japan. The nine winners of the award, college journalists from across the country, will be updating this blog from the trip with written reports and photographs as they travel through Seoul, Osaka, Kobe and Tokyo. Stay tuned for up-to-the-minute news and reporting.

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Arrival: Chicago

My first blog spot, egads.

No one is happy to be home. We all wish we were back in Seoul or Tokyo. Back to polite and competent immigration officers (US immigration officer to me: "why do you want to be in the land of the freedom?"), clean streets and airports, vending machines with endless sweet, fruity, carbonated options, and the bowing. We all miss the bowing. I think some of us are still bowing and people look confused.

It's such a cultural difference to be back. We can't walk around late at night without a worry in our heads, we have to watch our bags and lock our rooms, we have to lock our bikes. It's funny how we have to leave the country to feel safe...and I'm not even from this country!

We have to go back to our respective cities tomorrow. It's going to be weird to not be with 8 other people 24/7.

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