24
06
So it’s time for me to put on my ~graphic designer hat!
It’s not much of a hat. More like one of those hats kids fold out of newspaper. Temporary and pretty failtastic.
Anyway, on my lunch break today I doodled out pretty much how I want this to look (something like this), and if it was on LJ I think I could do it. But I don’t know anything about WordPress themes…
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23
06
So recently all the homestay applicants got an email basically asking us if we’re really sure that we wouldn’t rather stay in the Seminar Houses. Apparently they have more applicants than homestay families, so if some of us don’t change our mind by July 10 they’ll have to decide who gets a homestay by ballot.
These are the guidelines they gave us; if we fit one or more of these categories we should think about not doing a homestay.
1. You feel more comfortable being alone.
Well, this one’s true for me, but staying in a foreign country isn’t about my comfort. To get better at Japanese I’m going to spend these 4 months trying to change my loner ways :P
03
06
My acceptance arrived at last :D
Surprisingly I didn’t get too excited about it when I saw the email – I mostly just felt relieved. Of course that didn’t stop me ringing my parents straight away to tell them, but then that was largely because Dad had been on my back about how long it was taking. And then he immediately started listing all the stuff I’d have to do next…
Booking the flights is what made it sink in that I’m actually going to Japan. Or rather, $2696 later I really hope nothing will happen to prevent me going D: Man, laying out that much money all at once is painful.
I’ll be arriving at KIX on Saturday August 29th at 8:40am, flying Singapore Airlines (yay!), with a 6 hour layover in Singapore (less yay). And arriving home on December 23rd, since my family want me to be home before Christmas.
… unfortunately sorting out all these things has completely distracted me from studying from tomorrow’s Japanese test. I’d better go do that now.
