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It’s a good thing I like Autumn, since I’ve signed up for a double serving of it this year. (Unfortunately the trade-off is completely missing out on Spring, my other favourite season, but you can’t win them all).

Anyway, I’m currently halfway through an involuntary 3 week break from work, since they finally realised how much Annual Leave I’d accrued and forced me to take some. It would be nice if my acceptance could come during this time, so I can organise the flights and other things, and also because soon they’ll ask us what hours we want to work next semester, and it’d be best if I could tell them then that I’ll be leaving halfway through the semester.

I’ve really been loving my Japanese class recently, which is obviously a very good thing :D I think that when I was studying Science I got used to classes feeling like chores, and just trying to get through all the work so that I could graduate, whereas recently I’ve been leaving class most days with a smile on my face. Especially now that we’ve finished our previous textbook (Yookoso) and moved on to a different one (An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese), and the class structure has changed a bit – most of the grammar in the chapters we’ve done so far has been revision so Nishimura-sensei hasn’t been lecturing so much, but we’ve been doing more exercises and practice, which is really what I need to focus on.

EDIT: Since this is the top post now, I’ll move this part here – 7 weeks. Approvals have been coming out thick and fast this week (or at least it seems that way on Facebook), but still nothing *sigh*

Seriously, 5 weeks and still nothing? The refresh button on my email will break before this thing arrives.

I think Kansai Gaidai should take down the sentence on their website that says “Applicants whose documents arrive between March 16 and May 15 will be notified within three weeks of the arrival of their documents.” <_<

Because after 3 weeks I started to think that it could arrive at any time, so I wanted to check my emails as much as possible. On Uni days I’d go to the computer lab whenever I wasn’t in class. On work days I’d spend my lunch break staking out the resource computer, waiting ages for whoever was there before me to finish so I could take 20 seconds to log in to gmail, see there was nothing new, swear at the world, then leave.

So now I’ve got another weekend to sit through, then another week of this… I know I should just calm down about it, but I can’t help but stress a little. There’s still so much I need to do after I get my acceptance… (I almost wrote “if”, but I’d better at least pretend I’m managing to stay positive…)

EDIT: 6 weeks… and now that Kansai Gaidai’s closed due to swine flu, I guess there’s a chance it’ll take longer? If people aren’t coming to work or something. I don’t know if it’s just the students who are meant to be staying home, or staff too.