{"id":80089,"date":"2018-03-19T22:56:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T05:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=80089"},"modified":"2018-03-19T23:16:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T06:16:42","slug":"life-update-from-osaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/19\/life-update-from-osaka\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Update from Osaka"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dear friend,<\/p>\n

I just wanted to give you a life update from Osaka, Japan (where we are living the next month or so):<\/p>\n

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Why are you in Osaka?<\/h2>\n
\"Cindy
Cindy and Osaka river in background.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first question:<\/p>\n

\n “What are you doing in Osaka?”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Currently Cindy is working on her Ph.D in Vietnamese History<\/a> (the history of the Vietnamese-French Library) and is in her intense writing phase of her dissertation. When we were living in Vietnam, she was doing the research phase of her Ph.D. — gathering materials, photocopying\/scanning documents, and coming up with ideas.<\/p>\n

\"Cindy
Cindy at work inside our Osaka AirBnb apartment<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For the next year or so, she is going to write her dissertation, and the great thing is that she can write from anywhere. We personally love being in Japan, because it helps us focus to work. We spent about two weeks with her family in Orange County, which was great (eating great food, spending quality time with the family, and producing a new video course on Photography Entrepreneurship<\/a> which will launch in May). But the downside of living at home is that it is hard to focus on doing work (spending time with family is too much fun).<\/p>\n