time to do a blog post then…

so… what's been happening?
well i love holidays. a lot. i'm really not sure how i ever lived doing school work everyday. also, we get our results back in about a week. that's kind of scary… up until a couple of days ago, i wasn't worried at all; but now i'm quite nervous, worrying about what i'll get. but i did some estimations of marks, and that sort of calmed me down quite a bit. so all is fairly good. :)

rotary wise? well, on sunday, there was the final briefing, where we, with our parentals, were given lectures on various things, such as travelling/packing, quarantine, insurance, mental and physical health, host families, etc. it was actually fairly interesting, and we also got our blazer and rotary rugby top. the rugby top's a good size, but the blazer seems quite big! apparently i'm gonna become a porker while i'm overseas and put on several kilos, but i still don't think that will cover how much bigger the blazer seems compared to any other jacket / blazer i have! :D

This week, i've also got a huge amount of info from rotary about my exchange. Apparently, i've changed high school, and I am now going to Sekiuchi high school, not the technical college like i previously thought. The photo to the right is my new highschool! i'm really excited about it. it's a coed highschool, started in 2004. Apparently, the translation google gave me of the school's motto was: Creative self-worship… so i'm a little unsure about that… :) but otherwise, i've got pretty much no info about the school, like how many people etc. but it should be good! i'm really excited to go, i can't wait!

Currently, it's only 44 days (i accidentally typed in 33 days just then, and it looked like such a small amount of days!!! but that'll be really soon! aahh!) until i go, and 16 days until xmas. the year's almost over! i can't believe it really… it should only be about july, not mid december already!

Also, i sent an email off to my first host family! it was predominantly in japanese, with two lines in english of things i couldn't say in japanese. :) but they haven't responded yet, so i'm stuck here, waiting for a reply. Rotary has only told me their address, but it hasn't been said whether i have any host brothers/sisters. I've also been told of my counsellor's name, so i guess i should make some contact with him too! :P

wow… this is a dis-jointed post if i ever saw one… hope you enjoyed it! :P

PS: how am i supposed to make a 20 minute keynote about my life by the 21st of december?!? not likely, me thinks! :P