going to Tokyo
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-eight years and a million words
Toronto, 2012.09.05
Tonight I met with a young fellow who's planning his first dose of overseas living; in Tokyo.
His questions, his assumptions, and his plans all took me back. Back to the days before living in Australia, which I was doing at around the same age he is now.
We'd been introduced by a common friend who thought this fellow could learn from my checkered past. My advice boiled down to: "Try to find a job before you arrive. You'll have enough distractions when you arrive, finding work will be insanely difficult."