First of all i’d like to say a big thanks to everyone who checked out Road2Japan during Korea week.  It was a lot of fun making it happen, especially the video at the end, although my brain WAS on the verge of collapse after editing video for about 1238192873 hours.  For anyone who missed Korea week, it was a series of 5 posts about my trip to Seoul, South Korea.  In part 5, there is 3 youtube clips i made, basically an 18 minute video in 3 parts. Here’s a link to Part 1 of the Korea week posts.

However, as good as Korea week was, I think my timing of it was a bit off, because things happened during Korea week that I felt I couldn’t really mention due to the theme of the week.  So, time to catch up!

Korea week here at Road2Japan was known by another name to the Kansai Gaidai students: “Finals week”.  That’s right, all my finals were last week, and now that they’re done, my first semester here at Kansai Gaidai is over! Time to relax! Blow some money! And prepare for the big backpack trip around Japan.

I think i did well on my finals, i should have passed everything at least, but there is also the possibility for an ‘A’ in there somewhere, so that would be nice.  The finals week format was pretty much the same as the mid-term week, in my case.  That was that I had a Speaking Japanese oral, a Speaking Japanese written test, a Reading and Writing Japanese Oral, and a Reading and Writing Japanese written test.  All of which were tested almost exactly the same way as they were during mid-terms. For my orals, I had to read a passage out loud for Reading and Writing (something about eating turtles…)

Yeah that’s right, i’ve got an emoticon in my title… sorta.

So, down to 57.5 days till I leave for Japan – till i’m bound for “Kansai Gaidai University”.  Oh and what a crazy place it will be.  Everything has been brimming “Kansai Gaidai” these days, such as the “Kansai Gaidai Hub”, my little “Kansai Gaidai Blog”, socializing with the other “Kansai Gaidai Students”, and waiting for more “Kansai Gaidai Information” and instructions.  It’s nuts.

After talking to the other future students, my decision of which Seminar House to stay in has swayed to Seminar House 3.  That’s the apartment style one, it costs a little more but it has been decided that the extra money being paid is quite literally being put towards providing a little more “awesome”.  And no, too much cake is NOT a good thing – but you can never have too much awesome.