4th post: nearly there!

This time next week I'll be at Rikkyo for orientation!!  So close and yet so far!

This week I've had a list of things to do a mile long, annoying stuff like getting all my washing clean and calling the bank, etc etc.  It's hard to stay motivated to do annoying things, so I've been pretty lazy about it, but I need to be productive this morning because I go to take my dog to my mum's in Tassie this afternoon and will be gone until Sunday, so this is really the last chance I have to do anything that takes any amount of time.  Woah, run-on sentence!

This morning I need to: fax stuff to centrelink so that I keep getting paid while I'm away (honestly they could've told me I need to do this weeks ago when I called them instead of yesterday, but yay, money) - this means that I need to get all my documents sorted out for Japan so that I have the right stuff to fax, pack for Tassie, walk the dog, and sort out my room so that when my friend Hannah moves in on Sunday she has room to put her stuff.  Should probs also call the airline and confirm my flight.  I need to get money exchanged but I'll leave that until Monday.  Hopefully the dollar will go up some more by then!

I haven't studied any Japanese at all.  I went to class on Monday and was a bit freaked out by how much I'd forgotten - I'd temporarily forgotten the word 日曜日 (Sunday), and I'd completely forgotten the existence of keigo until my sister reminded me, this is not good!  I figure I'll have three days at mum's to study but I still feel like I'm cutting it a bit fine.  I'm going to totally be put in the dumb class!  When I get back from Japan I'll be so behind everyone else, the other kids will point and laugh at me and give me some mean nickname like "stupid dumb Anita who doesn't know any Japanese".  Or possibly something more catchy.

So it seems as if it's all finally actually going to happen.  When I think about actually going to school or opening the door to my flat for the first time, it doesn't seem possible, more like something that I've just daydreamed about.  I'm sure it's just because I have no context for it, I mean people successfully go on exchange all the time and I should just stop stressing about dumb things so I can be excited about it.  But oh well, I think I'll leave being excited for after I have to lug my dog and the dog crate all the way to the airport!