Intro

I'm a 22 year old student in the UK studying BA(Hons) Japanese and TESOL.

This year will be my 3rd year and I will be spending it in a Japanese university in the Saitama prefecture called Daitou Bunka Daigaku.

I will be departing the UK on the 6th September 2009 and I will arrive in Japan on the 7th September 2009.

If anyone has been before and could recommend some good places to visit, that would be fabulous!

I hope you will join me on my journey to The Land of the Rising Sun.
There will be many photos in the gallery - a link is provided on the right.


Yuuzuki <3

Tuesday 16 February 2010

Spring Break & Future Plans

PRESENTLY:

Spring break goes on XD
I have to say I've become remarkably lazy lately. Getting up at 11am and proceeding to do nothing but watch J-DRAMA and anime whilst being heated by the kotatsu! I blame the weather XD

I'm also reading a lot of manga. I suppose that's quite good in a way, since it's in Japanese. I'm making an Excel spreadsheet with new vocabulary and kanji from the books.

I'm reading various series at the moment. I'm flicking through "boku no hatsukoi wo kimi ni sasagu" by Kotomi Aoki, so I can record the vocab.
I'm also reading "kanojo wa uso wo ai shitesugiteiru" (that's a real pain to say out loud XD). Which is also by Kotomi Aoki.
I need more of her stuff, I really like her drawing style, but I don't think she has published much.

I'm working on Shin Tenipuri, I have volumes 1 and 2, but I've kind of put this series on hold - especially since they are so slow at releasing volumes!

I taught my last lesson in Ikebukuro last week. My student is going to be moving to Holland soon, so he's going to be too busy to have another lesson.

However, I have a new money making idea.
I tried selling one of my Hetalia keyring/phone charms on Ebay, since I had about 5 of him XD

Surprisingly, he sold for $10.50 in the end!
So I listed another and he already had bids up to $4.50 - and he still has 5 days left on the marketplace.

If I can buy other characters to list and they keep selling this well...I don't think I'll need a job XD


FUTURE PLANS:

I haven't really told anyone, but my boyfriend has become really wierd lately (complete personality transplant) and has repeatedly upset me.

Even he said that he really has changed a lot and decided to break up with me, so he wouldn't upset me again.

I guess that kind of changes my future plans, not greatly but slightly.

I'd planned to graduate and work in the UK until we could afford to move to Japan or Australia.

Although, if I'm going to be on my own....I might as well sign up with a teaching programme and go and live in Japan for a while to make some money, improve my Japanese and see the rest of Japan.

I quite fancy living in the kansai area!

When I return home, I really want to take up violin lessons!
I have looked into lessons - they're quite steep here and there is the issue getting the violin home XD
It wouldn't be a huge issue if I didn't have my laptop, doll and tennis racket to take on as hand luggage as well :S