Its been a while since I posted on here - sorry about that.
These last few days have been very busy, though I slept most of the weekend, getting packed and getting things ready before I leave! Tohoku of course are running around like chickens with their knickers in a knot, panicking that I will tell someone somewhere important (like, Tokyo, or ANU) anything negative about Tohoku. They want me to 'think of the students yet to come'. Apparently, they are worried that Tokyo will see them as less than perfect and therefore forbid them from ever giving out scholarships again.
Me, I'm more worried that if I don't say anything, then future students will have to go through the same hassles and bad experiences that I had to endure. So, I'm thinking of the students yet to come, but not quite in the way Tohoku imagine. (Their view hardly seems to be 'for students yet to come' but instead to make themselves come out of this as clean as possible.
They wanted reasons (actually, they wanted me to say I was sick), so I gave them three pages of reasons. A quick translation of the letter I sent to ANU, into Japanese.
The convened an emergency meeting... and the result of it was, after much teeth-sucking, to tell me that my letter was 'too long'.
They preferred I write three lines, no more.
Sigh... my two lines were: Tohoku university does not take its responsibility toward exchange students seriously. For increased detail, please see the attached letter.
This way they cant get away with NOT sending the full thing to Tokyo... he he he.. am I evil?
News is that a student from ANU has applied to come here this September. Wonder who it is... wonder if I know them.
Tomorrow I go to the bank and see about closing my account after I leave the country, and hand back my little bit of cardboard that serves as a Medicare card.
Thursday I bring stuff for the next ANU student in to uni, Friday I leave Sendai!
Five days to go!!
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