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So I finally gave in to the contagious and highly addictive world of blogging. But, "why now", you ask? In all honesty, I'm not quite sure myself. Maybe I'm meant to be a great and prolific writer, and as they say, "you gotta start somewhere." Most likely, it's because of the ridiculous amount of free time I have when school is not in session. Point being, I'm here, and staring incredulously at a computer screen, in hopes of writing witty and entertaining blogs.

Now that you know "the reasoning" behind this wonderful creation, let's go further behind the scenes or the silicon microchips, I should say, and explain its title, "Confessions of an aspiring globetrotter." Lately, I've been watching back-to-back episodes of, what is likely to become my favorite show ever, "Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations." For those of you who have not watched it yet, please do so. It's on at 10pm ET on the Travel Channel, hehe. Bourdain is a famous chef who travels all over the world in pursuit of exotic locations and even more exotic foods. Sure, sounds quite normal for a travel channel, but Bourdain brings that 'something else' that makes for great TV. So successful and charming is he, that he's motivated me to learn a thing or two about film making, particularly in the traveling documentaries department. Furthermore, traveling has always been a passion of mine and seeing as how my current (and deplorable) yearly income of $0 does not seem to work in conjunction with my dreams of being a jet setter, I decided on at least writing about the places that I'd like to visit.

Quite possibly, I will make some remarks about my personal life as I pursue this globetrotting venture. As for now, all I can really say on the matter is that I will graduate from college within the next year and will try to go on to graduate school in either Japan or Switzerland. Oh, and I shall probably warn you... expect to hear lots about Japan (and then some), as it's the only one of my "globetrotting" destinations that I have actually been to.

All in all, should be an interesting journey. Just one request...bear with me. I am after all, a newbie to this wonderful cyber world called blogging. Ja ne!