Through the Eyes of a Wombat

ANU's last day for re enrolment for semester one was last friday... so its now too late to try and re enrol for this semester.
Well, it technically IS possible to squeeze in until the end of March, but there is a financial penalty for that, what I need to figure out now is the relative merits of joining the semester after whats already been already two weeks gone and at least another week by the time I could get to Canberra.
Nothing further to say on that, so Im here at least until the 19th of July, or the 8th of July, whichever comes first...

Doesnt seem like theres much point in actually doing much while at Tohoku though, so Im still going to have copious free time, but at least I get paid to be there. One does have to ask oneself what the financial value of a year is; and to sit around doing nothing and getting $10,000 for the effort sounds like a reasonably good idea - it is in fact what got me here in the first place, but actually having nothing to do gives one plenty of time to think... plenty of time to think things through to the ultimate end.

In Australia I was swept up in the motion of 'yay, lets go to Japan.. yay.. japan has cans of coffee in vending machines... yay...', but here I have plenty of time to look at what I am doing, and actually follow things through to their logical end. Browsing web sites of places for future employment and actually looking at their educational requirements... the degree is cruicial, not what is written in brackets after it.
Yeah, having a year's exchange in Japan has got to be in my favour, more so than not having one. Good thing I've already done over a year here...
Yeah, having the Japanese Language Proficiency Test has got to be in my favour, more so than not having it. Good thing I've already passed it. (That test means virtually nothing outside Japan anyway).

Ugh... at least in a few weeks I'll be able to be wasting my time in Sendai, which has to be marginally better than wasting my time in Saitama. Not that Im holding out much hope of getting any carpet, but I MIGHT have internet access....

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