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Tomorrow is a national holiday, hooray! My goals are to clean the bathroom/kitchen and get everything I'm taking back to America boxed up. (well, outside of things I'm still using until the very end, which I can hopefully dump in this weekend.) I'm hoping that once I get this done it'll take off a lot of the stress since it'll mean the only physical thing left to do before I go is pack my final luggage/get rid of the rest of my crap.
I know you can't tell from the tone of my recent posts, but I so desperately want to feel excited about moving and going back to school. I really do! This is what I have wanted and planned for so many years now. This is what I have been wasting my life for these past 3 years as an ALT. I would really like to be able to sit down and reflect on the goals I've set out for myself and all the great opportunities that could be waiting for me. I feel like I need to get into the frame of mind of a serious art student who's ready and motivated to get focused and get awesome. I want to be grateful for the opportunity and feeling like things are finally turning around.
But whenever I think about the move, I would say 90% of my feelings about it are best described as "wanting to throw up." ;_; The best thing I can do is make a housing wanted ad on cl a few days before I head to America, try to set up some appointments to check out places beforehand or at least get in touch with people offering rooms, make getting a phone priority #1 on my first day in town, respond like a madman to any likely roomie listing posted, and then get my ass out and about to look for apartment complexes in case I can't get a room in a place someone else has for rent. If I can somehow get approved for a 2 bedroom apartment lease, I will just do that because having a month to find a roommate for a place in a location I chose, vs. having a week to find a room in a place randomly that other people are offering, before it financially damages me, is a lot better. But I don't even know what my credit score looks like or what's required to get my own place since I've never had to do it before in America. I feel like the majority of potential housing outcomes result in me losing lots of money and having a less than ideal situation, and that sucks.
I know you can't tell from the tone of my recent posts, but I so desperately want to feel excited about moving and going back to school. I really do! This is what I have wanted and planned for so many years now. This is what I have been wasting my life for these past 3 years as an ALT. I would really like to be able to sit down and reflect on the goals I've set out for myself and all the great opportunities that could be waiting for me. I feel like I need to get into the frame of mind of a serious art student who's ready and motivated to get focused and get awesome. I want to be grateful for the opportunity and feeling like things are finally turning around.
But whenever I think about the move, I would say 90% of my feelings about it are best described as "wanting to throw up." ;_; The best thing I can do is make a housing wanted ad on cl a few days before I head to America, try to set up some appointments to check out places beforehand or at least get in touch with people offering rooms, make getting a phone priority #1 on my first day in town, respond like a madman to any likely roomie listing posted, and then get my ass out and about to look for apartment complexes in case I can't get a room in a place someone else has for rent. If I can somehow get approved for a 2 bedroom apartment lease, I will just do that because having a month to find a roommate for a place in a location I chose, vs. having a week to find a room in a place randomly that other people are offering, before it financially damages me, is a lot better. But I don't even know what my credit score looks like or what's required to get my own place since I've never had to do it before in America. I feel like the majority of potential housing outcomes result in me losing lots of money and having a less than ideal situation, and that sucks.