chiba-kun ambassador!

Exciting news: I found out just the other day that I was selected to be a Chiba-kun Ambassador! Which basically means I'll be part of a group of people using blogs, social media, etc so that people in their home countries can learn about Chiba Prefecture. Because it's a pretty cool place, as far as I can say after being here for 10 months, and I think people should know that there's a lot more to Japan than Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, and Hiroshima (though I also think these all do deserve their fame).

Anyway, this really doesn't change too much about the blog - except maybe giving me more exciting things to write about. As a Chiba-kun Ambassador I'll get to go on a few trips around the prefecture, with the first one coming up in June! One of the places we'll be going is the Kikkoman Soy Sauce Museum in Noda, which is actually pretty cool because the group of students who visited the Mayor today got to go there and I had just been thinking about how I wished I could have gone, too. Plus I've heard that if you go on a tour you get a free bottle of soy sauce, which is always a plus!

So I guess I'll find out if it lives up to expectations next month, but I plan to keep posting in between as well. There's a new exhibit at the Chiba City Museum of Art, which I feel like I'm practically a regular visitor to now, which has apparently been getting some attention so I'll be checking it out sometime soon. Until then! :)