Busy, busy, busy. It has been a month in Japan and only now am I getting around to updating my blog despite there having been several blog post worthy events over the course of the month.
So….hmm….
I guess the best thing to do would be to start at the beginning and to work forward, hopefully I`ll catch up with the current day before too long. So without further ado….the journey to Japan and Tokyo orientation-
Usually I am quite good at preparing things in advance, when it came to getting ready for my trip to Japan however I was anything but.
My last week in the UK was not taken up with seeing friends, doing my last xxxxx for the next year (or two…or three…or who knows), etc… instead it was taken up with university work.
Though I have had my bachelor for a while I had been having some pretty big problems with getting my masters; long story short a few of my credits were invalid for my degree. Despite there being months of nothingness in waiting for Jet it was only in mid July that I was finally able to get started on a small course to get these final credits.
Considering that I knew much of August would be a write off for me due to it taking a while to get setup in Japan, it thus worked out that the backend of July involved me working like a bitch to get as much of this course done as possible before I left. When I say that I worked like a bitch I am totally not kidding, I absolutely bloody toiled.
The course would have been hard enough as things stood but considering I had as little as a third of the time as was meant for it and was stressing over my impending move to the far side of the world it was agony.
What makes things all the worse is that the whole time I was paranoid my lack of a masters degree would ruin my Jet chances- I said back in the application documentation that I was expecting my Masters within a month or two. Come the interviews…I’m pretty sure I said there had been problems but that it would only be a few months more. I was uncertain on this though. All the while I was looking through my contract at the bit where it said if anything in your application is proven to be untrue you can be sacked. Man, super worried was I. I was all up for Japan, my life for the past 2 months had been reliant on Japan being just around the corner, for it to be snatched away….
So yes. July was not a happy month. Stress and work was the meat and potatoes of my Summer in Britain.
The last week itself…well as I say I was busy working. The impending unofficial deadline of my journey to Japan was spurring me on, making me work all the harder. Then there were other commitments. I needed to do a last little night out with some friends, I had to say goodbye to various relatives, I needed to dismantle my computer so I could pack the thing up for Japan, I needed to actually pack!
In the end it all worked out that I ended up doing pretty much all of this on Friday night; a night when I already was not planning on sleeping due to having an early journey to the airport.
That night…mad dash into Newcastle to see friends, trying to have fun whilst stressing and trying to keep track of the time, mad dash to my aunt, mad dash here, mad dash there. Dismantling my computer whilst covered in sweat and shaking with stress, trying to make everything fit in my suitcases. ARGHHHH!
Somehow…I prevailed. I was unsure if I had done everything right. The stress would continue right up until…well just the other week actually, when I finally did get my home desktop up and running and finished my Uni work -I actually had very little indeed left over to do in Japan, which is a very pleasant surprise. It seems my stressing out and killing my last weeks in Japan paid off.
And….Wow I’ve wrote a lot about nothing. Looks like Tokyo Orientation will be….at least a post away. Maybe two. I haven’t even mentioned the journey yet. Blimey.
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