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I’m home! Update(s) to come after much sleep.

I’m off to Japan!! See you all in a couple of weeks.

I’m so grumpy. I spent a little while doing a series of films about what I’m packing for Japan, and in what etc. And somehow my camera isn’t letting me copy them to my computer. Why??? Why??? The world is so cruel!!

What I do have is the last in the series. For my clothes (except underwear and socks) I am packing it in a Eagle Creek Pack-It® Cube.

In this video I am showing you how much I have managed to fit in it. To get it closed I did have to sit on it to get out all the air, but I managed to get quite a lot in. Compare that with the six shirts someone says it fits “nicely” in the comments of it’s Amazon page! Best of all it fits perfectly in my bag - which I did have another video about but don’t now. Grrrr. I am planning on makeing another one, but can’t guarantee that I’ll get the time before I leave. At the very least I’ll take some photos.

I’ll also let you know if these cubes make it through my trip.

OK, right now I’m so close to finishing uni, I am so excited yet so stressed!! I look forward to writing on this site more often, I am often blogging in my head, I just rarely get the chance to actually write it down.

It’s not long now until I go to Japan! I’m so excited yet I have a lot to do before I go so I am probably thinking about it more than I should.

This is going to be my first time in Japan. I plan on going everywhere. I’m starting in Osaka, going up to Tokyo and then back down to Kyoto before leaving.

One thing I am hating right now is the exchange rate. Why did it have to happen NOW??? My money has effectively been halved thanks to it. I’m only going to be able to buy half the manga and visit half the love hotels I planned on going to.

Another thing I’ve been *naughty* in doing is studying Japanese my way. I really have a lot of things I need to be doing, yet I’ve been plugging away at my Intermediate Japanese textbook, and again have been using Anki - that program has changed a lot since I last used it, which I think was around July.

As for Dramas, I have been watching:

• Innocent Love
  I am really enjoying this, I think this one is my favourite so far this season. Of course, the season is still young though.
• Oh! My Girl!!
  *Yawn.* I found nothing special with this one. While cute, I’m not sure I’ll watch the rest of this one.
• Ryusei no Kizuna
  I’m enjoying this one. I think the cast have great chemistry, and it was more “mature” (i.e. lots of sex talk!) than I thought it would be for a Johnny’s show. I like the non-linear-ish story line. This one is a bit of fun, so far, but with dark undertones.
• Bloody Monday
  I haven’t finished watching the first episode yet, as I got interrupted, but this is one show I am planning to watch. From what I’ve seen it’s really intriguing.
• Room of King
  *zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz*

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I just spent over an hour trying to find this video (I may or may not be exaggerating)

I love this dance. Last year when I saw it I tried to convince my friends that we could do a similar dance on the streets as I believe we would make a pretty penny for it. Would anyone like to dance with me?