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Aug 25, 2008
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ohmygod.

i'm leaving tomorrow!!!!!

i'm so incredibly excited....... but i'm also way stressed. and worried. and tired.

but definitely excited.

i'm not sure if i'll be able to fall asleep tonight haha

but yeah. weather in tokyo's supposedly not so great lately. lots of rain and such.

but my mom says that summer rain in japan is pretty warm. it's winter rain that's going to be like... freezing cold.

so i'm basically bringing a skirt for one of my outfits. (hey my mom's the one that suggested it...)

i'm leaving kinda early tomorrow morning... (5:30...)

my suitcase has been packed since yesterday.

i packed my carryon two or three days ago... but i unpacked and repacked today haha.

i still have a few things i need to do before i leave though.......

i have to finish my japanese hw corrections...

finish my dad's paperwork...

email some people...

and........ yeah.

i'm just way tired and ready to be THERE already. haha

anyways. not sure when i'll be able to have my internet back after i get to japan...... (maybe at the ryokan we're staying at and maybe at my host family's place... not sure)

so it might be a few days or so before i can post another post.

i'll probably post something tomorrow... maybe. before i leave. if i get up early enough.

if i do post something, though... it's probably gonna be way short and just me rambling on about how excited i am or something.

and plus i'll probably be like... half asleep or something so parts of it might not make sense.........

anyways.

i'm going to miss everyone soooooo much.

i'm also going to miss being able to watch my dramas. (i have to watch them on tv now!)

but yeah.

i'll write whenever i can :)

~Kanna-chan

6 days to go!

Aug 20, 2008
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So I've got 6 days before I leave for my study abroad program to Japan.

I leave on the 26th of August... I'm so incredibly excited!

Actually, I'm probably more nervous than I am excited lately.........

I've found out my school, my host family (and of course where I've been put)... but there's still a lot that I have to do before I leave.

I still have to finish buying my host family presents (planning on doing that this weekend), I have to clean up my room, and I should probably start packing or at least writing a list of things I need to pack before I leave.

My parents want me to buy most of my new clothes while I'm in Japan, so that's cool... So I probably won't be bringing a whole lot of stuff with me on the plane.

I'm a bit confused about what I'm supposed to be doing about my plane...

We're (by we, I mean my friend and me) supposed to be leaving the airport closest to us to go to the San Francisco International Airport... since the company's headquarters are in San Fran. Then we take a flight from San Fran to Japan.

So I'm kinda confused... My mom had to do the same thing once. And basically, she was told a billion times that she would go to domestic first and then at San Francisco, change to go to international. But when she got in line for domestic, the people at the airport told her she had to go to international. So she's thinking that the same thing is going to happen to me.

Of course, the person that told her this was the travel company people or whatever... and my program advisor has told my friend that we're taking domestic then switching. I'm hoping that the same thing doesn't happen to us...

But it's kinda weird. They told us we're not seeing our luggage until after we get to Japan. I kinda figured that meant we were taking international all the way........

Maybe I should call my program advisor too....

Anyways.

My host family seems great. The oldest daughter is really nice... I've been talking to her every now and then via email. The only thing that makes me mad is that sometimes their computer can't read the Japanese that I've typed in or whatever. Of course it's not their fault... but I can't figure out why it's doing that... I can read it perfectly fine over here... and it's only like every other email or something. So it's kind of annoying that I can't figure it out.

Well... other than that, all of my teachers have basically told me that I don't need to do any of my work and that I should just pretend to pay attention and make sure that I'm participating in all the group activities or whatever.

So that's what I've been doing in school so far. I've also decided that I'm going to unregister from my school a day early. I was planning on un-enrolling on Monday (the day before I leave), but I've decided that I want to use the entire Monday to pack. So I'm going to unregister myself in Friday.

Saturday I'm going to dinner with friends... so I'm excited for that.

Sunday I'm doing any final shopping stuff... and I have a hair appointment but that has nothing to do with the program. :)

Oh. I'm not sure how often I'll be able to get on the internet over in Japan... I don't want to bother my host family and apparently internet is expensive over there... This, of course, also means that I have to cut down on some of my drama watching. I'm going to have to watch whatever's on TV. Oh well. I'm sure I'll be fine for five months.........

But yeah. Whenever I can get on, I'm definitely going to be blogging... and answering my emails. But that's about it. :)

Well then I'll probably write again... either the day before I leave or sometime after I'm there.

But before then, I highly doubt that I'll have anything else to say.

~Kanna-chan