So... apparently maybe supposedly this coming secondhand to me from message passed on via family telephone call between mother and grandmother...

I passed 2-kyuu?
but wasn't sent actual scores?
I hope she just didn't realise where the scores were.
Oh god.

Um, tentative \o/

ETA OKAY SO I THINK I REALLY DID PASS SO YEEEAH. ACTUAL \O/

Awesome ( Read more... )

First time getting stopped randomly on the street by police and being asked to show my gaijin card? Go me? I guess I've managed to escape it long enough until now ( Read more... )

yes yes yesssss someone finally iconned Nyanko-sensei's sass ( Read more... )

TOKYO IS FAKING US OUT TODAY. It felt like summer all day... Hot and sunny with a warm breeze, perfect blue skies. It was 23 degrees. That's 73 for the rest of you. The most gorgeous day we've had in months, though it will of course have been shortlived. I just. Am in love with today. And sad that in all likeliness I'll be back to wearing 4 layers ( Read more... )

FREEDOM!!...as of 3 days ago. My biggest achievement has been not setting my alarm this morning, but that's damn near big enough ♥ Managed to work in an Akiba run with Amelia to obtain One Piece!Dragon Balls, and Indian last night with Rachel before she went off to Hokkaido today. For the record, the garlic naan last night was bigger than my head ( Read more... )

...I'm sorry, really I am ( Read more... )

Many things have happened in the last two weeks. Next to none of them important! But that's okay, such is life as a displaced hermit hobbit in Japan. School continues to be more of an annoyance than anything else: Japanese class SUCKS due to horrible teaching methods and incompetent staff, and I learn more hanging around the convenience store than ( Read more... )

The past few days have been absolutely exhausting, but on the whole, brilliant. Wednesday, Rachel took Dolphin and me to her favourite garden here, Koishikawa Korakuen (小石川後楽園). It's by Iidabashi Station, only a couple of stops down from my uni stop, Yotsuya, so was really easy to get to. It's also literally next door to Tokyo Dome, and you can see ( Read more... )

I really need to go to bed before 4am one of these days but--

Kind of really exceedingly super CHOU shit-scared of going to Japan for an entire year in... *checks*... a week and a day. It's different from going back to London for school, or how it was moving back into Manhattan after another summer or xmas holiday for the past 4 years. It's ( Read more... )