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In Japan!

August 29th, 2009 Mitchell 2 comments

I have arrived safe and well in Japan! Flight was cool, a lady and her husband gave me and Jace chocolates and money.. it was kinda funny, I gave them one of my koala bear keyrings and they absolutely lapped that thing up. I feel proud of my Australian souvenir buying skills.

Will post again very soon, I am trying to figure out how to work the public transport system. Over and out. :P

Categories: Travel Tags: excited, Kansai Gaidai

2 weeks to go!

August 17th, 2009 Mitchell 5 comments

I’ve lied already! 12 days and 14 hours til I take off for Japan.. Holy crap! typing that just now has made me feel a new wave of excitement, it’s unbelievable!

Now now, me being me I like to leave things to the last minute but it appears I have somewhat a list of stuff to do! courtsey of my Mum she’d like me too:

  • Print off copies of (for me and her):
    • Travel Insurance
    • Passports
    • Visas
    • Travelers Checks (scan =\ …)
    • Contact details for uni, KGU and QUT
  • Give her my banking details? lol
  • Get my luggage in order
  • Do up a will and give her ‘power of attorney’.
  • Prepare Travelers Checks and some cash.

Soo of course I’ll do all the above except for a will and the power of attorney because that’s just rubbish. I’m not going to die, and I think by getting that stuff together I’m just jinxing myself / falling into the trap that my mum has set for me to arrange my sudden and unfortunate death. =\

It's Scuba Steve!

It's Scuba Steve!

Ahhh anyways! that’s a general list of things I have to do, NOT including all the other little things that still has be done which includes my list of personal ‘things to do before leave Australia’ which includes stuff like eat a Subway sandwich with HONEY OAT bread instead of the cool breads and those sorts of things.

Regardless! there is stuff to do and I’m gonna do it. Watch me work peoples, before you know it I’ll be saying ‘ehhhhh going to Japan tomorrow woo~!!’.

P.S – gotta study more though. :(

It’s August!

August 1st, 2009 Mitchell 1 comment

Guessss what guys? it’s August! you know what that means! writing the date has become EASY again.

Yeah.. so what I did there was, I thought to myself that 8 is a pretty easy number to draw so I kinda implied that I’m happy it’s August because the date is easy to draw. It then dawned on me that 7 is even MORE easier to draw.. but I’ve left it up here because it shows me and what goes on in my head a little. Hopefully that’ll help you understand me a teeeny bit more.

Annnyways, it’s August! I leave Australia for a year in August. Hence I’m kinda happy (but a lil bit sad) that it’s finally August, after ALL this waiting.. it’s finally here, I’m finally going to Japan. Pluusss, it’s sooo much suave to say, “Ohh you know, going to Japan for a year in less than a month.” — so that’s pretty sweet too.

Me in kitten form, pretend bacon says August!! tho I LOVE bacon tooo. ;)

Me in kitten form, pretend bacon says August!! tho I LOVE bacon tooo. ;)

So for 2009, I think August is officially my favourite month of the year.. either that or September because I’ll actually be at the start of my mega super duper awesome adventure at that point in time. But yes, I’m excited.. I think alot of mah Kansai Gaidai peeps are excited at the moment.. it IS exciting stuff, at the end of the month we’ll all be in Japanland! buying toothbrushes and fooling around with the transformer toilets.

So now that it’s August, it’s dawned on me.. I only have three weekends left in Australia! and I’ve already booked two of them out! so naturally I’ve assigned the last weekend to the family (cos I’m suuuper nice and owe it to them) and I’m hooping.. REALLY hoping I get my jumping castle as I was promised. But yeah, it’s really really cool that it’s less than a month now but on the flip side it’s also a bit saddening. I may as well be on my death bed here! I’m gonna be gooone for ages and my family absolutely depend on me for all awesome things in life. I don’t want to brag, but these guys literally live and breathe because I’m around.. when I leave I’m gonna have to get them onto some kind of suicide watch. ^^

So now, I am unemployed.. I’m trying to spend as much time with my friends as possible. I’m also endeavouring to study my arse off! I really really need to freshen up my Japanese skills.. otherwise I’ll be a retard relying on body language (which I’m sure will consist of alot of pointing and random gestures) to get my message across.. which although fun, is not the method of choice for the majority of my communication.

Ummm so a pointless post! enjoy? pweeease?

Categories: Life Tags: excited, waiting