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. 
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:
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!
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. 
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. 
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?
EXAMS ARE DONE!
This means the entire ‘hey, hey there — not you, yeah you. You’re going to Japan for a year! congrats’ thing is starting to sink in and it’s really making the crazy in me bubble up inside and spew out a little which hey, come on now. It isn’t a horrible event to unfold and witness! so I’ll take it in my stride if you say I’m a tad crazy / over the top / weird / bonkers or whatever because hey, I know I just might be letting off a little extra happiness which doesn’t translate well through whatever medium I choose to exert myself with.
Where to from here?
But yeah, obviously happy, but the next real question for me, and probably alot of other exchange students going to Kansai Gaidai, is what to do now? like sure, I’ve got a job that I work a few days a week and that’s all well and all.. but what else?
Is there anything I need to specifically prepare for? hmm, well let’s see.. I’m going to a country that speaks an entirely different language from which I am far from comfortable in. So MAYBE I should do a little Japanese study eh? yeah, okay.. that’s nice.. but there is a slight problem, I just finished all my exams and whatnot so I don’t particularly feel like doing any study again.. ever. Sure that’ll change in the coming weeks but as of now, for the life of me I can’t find anything else to keep myself preoccupied with apart from a few coding projects I wanted to get started, one which I’m going to pitch do ye old Kansai Gaidai exchange students on Facebook on the weekend.
So yeah, what now you ask? I don’t know. I guess the next week or so will be celebrating the completion of another semester and looking forward to Kansai Gaidai but atm I can’t figure out what to do next.
That’s me, over and out. Got any suggestions? lol.