{"id":18910,"date":"2021-10-28T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/?p=18910"},"modified":"2024-09-30T08:56:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T12:56:11","slug":"day-28-october-journaling-adventure-with-the-joy-of-writing-journal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/2021\/10\/day-28-october-journaling-adventure-with-the-joy-of-writing-journal-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 28: October Journaling Adventure with The Joy of Writing Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today I ask you\u2014and me\u2014to think of a most exotic, thrilling or memorable<\/a> vacation spot. Then we write about an experience there, incorporating all our senses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Day 28, I write about a trip between my first and second year of business school at MIT. I traveled to Japan with two male classmates, one Japanese and the other Korean American. In some ways, our trip was the precursor to a class trip scheduled for later in the fall that we had helped to organize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having two parents who bought, sold and sometimes repaired Japanese art and particularly antiques, I had always dreamed of traveling to Japan to see the artwork, Shinto shrines, landscapes that inspired the art, and, of course, modern Tokyo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo by Yoko Saito<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Much of our trip was extraordinarily beautiful\u2014the monasteries, the train ride through the Japanese Alps, the “fire flowers” (fireworks), the art. And then there was also this strange experience I recall in my current journal (I “released” my original Japan Trip journal during a big purge!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The three of us sleep in an attic loft, giant cicadas flying about. My two companions have gone out “to find E____ a Japanese wife.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I experienced some awkwardness in traveling with two men\u2014one from an entirely different culture and the other, somewhat so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet something else feels strange. At times\u2014walking across a footbridge in a park, sitting on a park bench eating scallion pancakes, and now, here, alone in the attic room with all these cicadas, I feel my sense of who I am slipping away. I experience a visceral feeling of not really knowing who I am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I shed all that I thought and believed about myself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I feel strangely vulnerable and uncomfortable\u2014like a mollusk whose shell has been removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Your Turn<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Looking for the full prompt? You’ll find it in The Joy of Writing Journal: Spark Your Creativity in 8 Minutes a Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then Go Write!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you recall about your travel experience?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is it a humorous anecdote or something deeper?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does the place feel familiar? foreign? A little of both?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happens to you inside?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Share an excerpt, insight or a little of both as a comment below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note: Spend time on the Week 4 summary page: Note things that happened this past week that you can write about; make note of things that inspired you; schedule your writing times. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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