Tsukaremashita.

It's been a long day. JLPT's tend to do that to you. I woke up at 6:45 to catch the train to Fukuoka, which involved the shinkansen and two other train changes. I ran into lots of friendly foreigners on the way and while I was at the testing site. The test itself was okay, though there really are some strange gaps in my Japanese education. I thought the reading part was the easiest. It occured to me while doing the vocabulary section that I can't spell well in English, how am I supposed to do so in Japanese? *sigh* Once the torture was over (and it went both very fast and extremely slow, the extremely slow part being during when they took forever to hand out and collect each section of the test and explain the rules - again).

Afterwards, I headed back into Fukuoka and found Animate, the big anime store there. I'm seriously searching for the new ANBU Kakashi plushie but I had no luck finding it and therefore mostly picked up christmas presents for others, though I ended up buying myself a tree, though I have serious doubts about my ability to grow it. Chopper says I can though *L* Afterwards, I still had lots of time so I wandered through the department stores in the Tenjin area. My biggest find was a Wendy's where I happily paused to have a mini chocolate frosty thing. I ended up in this crazy department store which had things like a car dealership - on the 4th floor. There, I did more christmas shopping and ate ramen for dinner. I finally headed back to Hakata station and through some serious finagaling of schedules and a bit of luck, managed to make it home in record time around 11pm (and extremely cheaply).

I've been really stressed over this exam for the past couple of days even though I had no reason to be since it makes almost no difference in my life. I couldn't convince my body of this and I was having a lot of trouble sleeping and was getting stress headaches etc. I'll be glad to get some proper sleep tonight.

Speaking of the test not mattering, the good news is Leeds wrote me back to tell me I have a conditional offer of a place of studies (which is nice considering they haven't recieved my personal statement or official transcript. Not to mention it's only been a week since I applied). The bad news is it's for Japanese Business Studies, which wasn't what I applied for. Methinks it's a typo, but am too tired to be anything other than amused atm...

Tsukaremashita.

It's been a long day. JLPT's tend to do that to you. I woke up at 6:45 to catch the train to Fukuoka, which involved the shinkansen and two other train changes. I ran into lots of friendly foreigners on the way and while I was at the testing site. The test itself was okay, though there really are some strange gaps in my Japanese education. I thought the reading part was the easiest. It occured to me while doing the vocabulary section that I can't spell well in English, how am I supposed to do so in Japanese? *sigh* Once the torture was over (and it went both very fast and extremely slow, the extremely slow part being during when they took forever to hand out and collect each section of the test and explain the rules - again).

Afterwards, I headed back into Fukuoka and found Animate, the big anime store there. I'm seriously searching for the new ANBU Kakashi plushie but I had no luck finding it and therefore mostly picked up christmas presents for others, though I ended up buying myself a tree, though I have serious doubts about my ability to grow it. Chopper says I can though *L* Afterwards, I still had lots of time so I wandered through the department stores in the Tenjin area. My biggest find was a Wendy's where I happily paused to have a mini chocolate frosty thing. I ended up in this crazy department store which had things like a car dealership - on the 4th floor. There, I did more christmas shopping and ate ramen for dinner. I finally headed back to Hakata station and through some serious finagaling of schedules and a bit of luck, managed to make it home in record time around 11pm (and extremely cheaply).

I've been really stressed over this exam for the past couple of days even though I had no reason to be since it makes almost no difference in my life. I couldn't convince my body of this and I was having a lot of trouble sleeping and was getting stress headaches etc. I'll be glad to get some proper sleep tonight.

Speaking of the test not mattering, the good news is Leeds wrote me back to tell me I have a conditional offer of a place of studies (which is nice considering they haven't recieved my personal statement or official transcript. Not to mention it's only been a week since I applied). The bad news is it's for Japanese Business Studies, which wasn't what I applied for. Methinks it's a typo, but am too tired to be anything other than amused atm...