Diplomacy, or 'saving face'?
Saita sensei just came to visit - she wanted me to think about what I am going to tell the people over at the scholarship office about why I am leaving. She reckons I will have to write a letter to them explaining my 'inexplicable' reasons for even considering such an idea as actually voluntarily leaving Japan before the end of the year.
She heard my reasoning, and agreed that there was no point in staying, though I didnt go into anywhere near as much detail as I did with that big email to Hendriks. So, maybe she doesnt grasp the severity of this. Anyway, the advice I was given was to outright lie, and say either that I have become very sick and need to return home, or that some rather serious problem has developed at home, like a family member being similarly sick.
Apparently, to say something like this is desired, and I think this is because it puts all the responsibility (blame, if you will) on my leaving Tohoku squarely onto me. If I were to allow other people to hear my real reasons, this would be 'not what they want to hear', and my thoughts lead me to that this will mean that there is something on paper attesting to the fact that THEY are not perfect, and it was not 'all the gaijin's fault'... which seems to be what they want.
I think I'll go back to the burrow now and re write that letter to Hendriks into Japanese so I can be prepared properly... with everything that needs to be said!
And anyway... TEN days to go!!! 10!!! This time tomorrow it will be.... yes.... SINGLE FIGURES!!! (Yes, this excites me)
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