Through the Eyes of a Wombat

Tohoku know I'm leaving...

Saita sensei ( lecturer, the one who picked me up from the airport ) saw me today and asked for a 'quick word'. She'd heard something to the effect that I was not taking any classes, and wanted to know what I was doing. I said that that was true, that the classes were wasting my time, and that there was no point me taking any other classes (once again she offered ones that were 'considerably difficult' - which I think was meant to result in me jumping for joy...). She was not in the least surprised when I said I was leaving, but she did seem to think it was all ANU's fault.
Oh well...
Reserved a plane ticket, too!! Very exciting, but the travel agent couldnt tell me on the spot whether there were any seats available, so I will find out on Monday if indeed I am leaving Tokyo at 2pm on the 31st of May...

So all that remains is packing up, tidying up loose ends, and getting out of here! Mombusho want me to pay for that plane ticket from Tokyo to Sendai at the start of February, which technically they are allowed to do under the terms of the scholarship, but I was hoping they had forgotten about it. Need to pay my rent and my mobile bill, cancel said mobile, and I think I'm done! Both the International House and the phone company wanted my bank account details so they could take the appropriate money from my account directly, but neither of them actually have, they both want cash payments now. Silly oompa loompas.

Eugene emailed yesterday too... he wants to deliver the 'rest' of the ANU stuff to my room on Saturday. So kind, but I am then going to have to transport it up to Uni myself. I'll see what he's got, and might ask him to drop it off at uni instead of my nest, and I can put it in a big cardboard box and leave it for the next ANU student - probably in September next year.

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