WOO 100th post! As a way to celebrate, i’m making this post extra special, lots of eye candy, lots of adventure and a little surprise at the end (I feel there should be a “that’s what she said” joke there…).  Anyway, on with the post!

So the other day I was invited by my buddy Frank to meet him and a few friends at Kyoto.  Objective: Arashiyama!

Arashiyama is a mountain (“yama” = “mountain” - i expect you to all be fluent by the time i’m home), and is famous for the monkeys that inhabit it.  But we’ll get there eventually, things happened before the monkeys!

So Frank + posse were out in Kyoto the night before, clubbing, drinking, talking to transvestites and even being kidnapped by an extremely “cool” Korean guy.  Now I wish I was there, but I wasn’t =’(

I haven’t really done a real post about how things are going so far, what i’m feeling and all that stuff, seeing as this is an area of the exchange I really wanted to focus on but haven’t been, and will be focusing more on in the future.

Ok so my time here in Japan has been… well to be honest, a bit awkward.  Things I thought were gonna happen but didn’t want to happen, most definitely happened.  Things I thought weren’t gonna happen, happened.  But then there were the odd things I did think were gonna happen, most definitely won’t be happening.

Confused? Me too.

Hiroshima (and the surrounding area) was quite an experience.  It was great! However, I think what I had made of Hiroshima was what made it great – otherwise it might have been pretty average.  Read on!

Friday night I went out drinkin with a bunch of guys at the beer park right by my dorms.  It was good fun, had a bit to drink… a bit more… and more… ultimately I ended up going to sleep at 2am, to be woken with a hangover by Mitch at 6:15am – sleeping through my alarm.  I had to be at Hirakata Station by 7:33, the bus left the bus stop at 7:00am, and I had nothing ready.  My clothes were even still in the dryer downstairs!  I really didn’t think that through – guhhhh….

Anywayz, being the super human I am, I managed to slow down time and got myself ready AND made it to the bus stop with a couple of minutes to spare.  I needed food. And drink.  I was pretty hungry and thirsty, but didn’t have much time.. so! Convenience store! I grabbed a drink then spotted something potentially edible.  STEAM BUNS!

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.

For those that have read the previous post i’d like to mention that it was written because such a decision HAS arisen.  But before I mentioned anything I wanted to talk to the people involved.

Woot I got my application form for exchange approved by my course co-ordinator. She’s working all the magic with my credits which enables me to be eligible for the exchange. I guess i can cross that off my list of things to do…