I'm from Iowa. Oh hell yes corn fields. Over the past six years I've spent more time abroad in Asia than I have in the US. Spent some time in Tokyo to polish up my Japanese and then 3 years in China to attain Mandarin fluency and forget all the Japanese I'd learned. I'm on my final year at UCSD's International Relations and Pacific Studies (IRPS) grad school program after returning from a full year internship in Tokyo.