Yup, it's official. I am definitely going back to Japan in about 3 months. The final exam results were posted today, and I got a B, so I'm all set. I have been so friggin' nervous lately, so getting a pretty good grade is definitely a relief. I had a pretty good feeling right after I finished the exam, but for the past week or so I've been a nervous wreck. I was so sure I'd get a D or something, which would have meant that I couldn't go back. But a B is excellent! I can relax now! About time.

I can't even find the proper words to describe how excited I am to be going back to Josai. This time I know what I'm getting myself into, so hopefully I won't procrastinate like I did last time. Gotta do my homework or assignments right away, otherwise they will pile up and stress me out again. Lesson learned the hard way, thank you very much. I can't wait to walk around campus or Togane in general again. See people I haven't seen or met for seven long months. Buy a cute new cell phone. Nomihoudai (all you can drink) at the local karaoke place. Shopping at Sunpia or in Tokyo/Chiba/Yokohama/wherever. And all the hot guys. Go to Johnny's concerts again. I can't wait!

So what have I been up to for the past month or so? Not much. First I had the Japanese History exam (which I passed, by the way! Go me!), and then I had a week to study for my Japanese finals. Which I pretty much aced, considering the fact that getting a B is a pretty good result. After the exam vanyanta and I went to Stockholm. The first thing we did in Stockholm was getting lost. Walking from the train station to your hotel when you don't have 1) a map or 2) a general idea of in which direction the hotel is is not something I would recommend. But surprise, surprise. We did find it eventually. Too bad we had been walking around in the rain for about 40 minutes before we found it. Oh, whatever. The hotel was so cool. Really old-fashioned, but exclusive at the same time. Loved it.

Our days in Stockholm were spent shopping and sightseeing. Our feet hurt, our finances suffered (well, vanyantas did... mine not so much) and we took a lot of pictures of random buildings. Oh, and we ate delicious sushi at a small restaurant we discovered. Yummy! We did not go to the Tegomass fanmeeting, even though we had originally planned to go. For some reason we went to Topshop instead. Oh well. There will probably be other chances to meet fellow fangirls.

Despite the adventurous start, the summer holidays is pretty boring so far. I'm spending my days at home, wathcing Atashinchi no Danshi and Brilliant Legacy whenever the fansubbers relase new subs. Other than that.. I'm totally bored. Save me.

Tegomass' visit to Sweden got cancelled because of that damn H1N1 flu. Go figure. I kinda saw it coming, though. Other Japanese bands scheduled to perfom oversees has been cancelling their performances as well, so I guess it's a matter of national security or something. Not that Sweden would have posed as a big threat, seeing as Japan has had more cases of the flu than the country in question, but I guess you can't be to careful when dealing with heartthrobs like Tegoshi and Massu.

The whole thing pretty much sucks, because the tickets vanyanta and I bought are non-refundable, so we're still going. Skipping out on the trip is not really an option, seeing that the tickets and hotel we booked were expensive. Really expensive. Although Stockholm suddenly lost its biggest attraction (at least to us), it'll probably still be a fun trip. And we can celebrat that we're done with our exams and officially on summer break. Shopping and sightseeing - here we come!

Speaking of exams, I'm in hell right now. I have a Japanese History exam on the 20th, and for some reason the professors have decided that having a total of three fat books for a single subject is a very good idea. Three! Cruel, cruel world! When I took Norwegian History in high school, it was split into two different subjects, pre-1850 and post-1850. Which makes perfect sense, seeing as it's such a broad subject. But this time we're supposed to know all about Japanese history from 10.000 B.C. - today. Impossible. Totally impossible. I'm SO gonna fail.

On the 28th I have my Japanese exam. I'm not too stressed out about it at the moment, but the fact that I have to get a C or better to be able to return to Japan is somewhat frightening. What if I mess up? Getting at least a C should normally not be a problem for me, seeing as I'm usually in the A/B range, but still.. Tomoko (our professor) even told me and vanyanta she wanted us to get at least a B. The reason is that we're the two students from our class selected for the Josai exchange program, which basically means we don't have to pay any tuition whatsoever for the entire year. Yay! I have to do well on this one. I just have to.

Today I went to the photographer to get my passport photos taken. I really don't understand why Josai needs a grand total of 10 passport photos, which is double the amount we had to give them last year, but whatever. The only reason I can think of is that most of us had forgotten to bring extra photos to Japan last year, so we had to waste time at a photo box before applying for our Alien Registration Cards. Maybe good old Kobayashi is trying to avoid that this year or something.

But anyway, so the pictures turned out awful, as usual. Big surprise there. Is there a rule saying you have to look like crap in your passport photos? At least they are better than last year's. At least I look female and older than 12 years old this time around. Which is the way it should be.

Oh, and I saw the cutest trolley bag EVER at the mall today. It has kitties all over it. I want it. Unfortunately I'm pretty much broke at the moment, and can't really afford to spend 1200 NOK on a trolley bag anyway...

I'm handing in my application tomorrow. I don't have any mandatory classes on Wednesday, so I don't want to have to make an unnecessary trip to Oslo that day. That means I have to finish it all tonight. I'm still not too sure about the whole resume thing, and the application itself is a bit different from last year. vanyanta and I tried asking Tomoko what we were supposed to write in our resume, but she gave us a somewhat vague answer. Go figure. Guess I'll have to ask again tomorrow.

By the way, I am totally addicted to Koi no ABO these days. Seriously. I loved it when it first came out, but the more I hear it, the more I want to listen to it. I can't wait to hit the nearest karaoke place when I get back to Japan! Only four months to go now!

I have also taken a strange liking to talking to cute hostboys online these days. A strange, but rather fun habit. Haha! And I get to practice my Japanese. Yay! I love Mixi! (Yes, I just had to mention it.)

So vanyanta and I finally booked our trip to Stockholm yesterday. Even though it turned out to be quite a bit more expensive than we had originally planned (basically because none of us really wanted to sleep in bunk beds in a windowless hotel room the size of my closet), I'm really excited that we're all set to go! I can't wait to see Tegomass up close. I'm getting all giddy just thinking about it. This is love. Seriously. In a completely non-freaky and innocent way, of course.

Anyway, so our plans for the day of departure is as follows: Bring our luggage to school, exam at 9am, finish our exam at around 3pm, rush to the airport, catch plane to Stockholm at 6:30pm, arrive at Arlanda an hour later, short train ride to city center, try to find out hotel, check in, sleep, get up early the next morning, figure out location of meet&greet, molest Tegoshi and Massu. Alright, so maybe not the last one (sigh). But you get the point.

And if we can't get tickets for the Tegomass concert (I'm really nervous about missing the online sale), at least we'll have three lovely days in Stockholm. Shopping and sightseeing, how I love thee!

And now for something completely different: I'm ditching class today. Yay! Go me! The reason? I was tired, and didn't feel like spending time trying to translate 蜘蛛の糸 (Kumo no Ito) to proper Norwegian. Bad excuse, I know. But I haven't been absent a lot this term, and there's only two weeks left anyway. And that's more than good enough for me.

I seriously need to get a life! I rarely even go out of the house anymore! Which totally sucks, since I'm not used to being THIS anti-social! Ever since I started this whole home study thing, I have grown more and more attached to my computer. And hey, that's is definitely not a good thing! So tomorrow I'm going shopping! By myself, unless someone else suddenly wants to come along! Maybe I'll give someone a call later on. Yup! I'll do that.

I'm running out of anime to watch.. I saw the last two episodes that's out of Tsubasa Chronicle yesterday, and the same thing goes for Sugar Sugar Rune! But Lunar released the new Ouran High School Host Club episode today, so at least I'll have something new and fresh to watch! And I don't think I ever finished Pita Ten and Honey & Clover either, so maybe I'll give them a second chance! Haha! I'm turning in to such an obsessed fangirl! Seriously! Oh well! Let me live in my little bubble for another while, huh? Thank you! ;)

Looks like I'm acing my studies as well.. I've sent in like 10 different papers or something for review, and have yet to get negative feedback! But schoolwork was always my strong point! Haha! I sound like such a geek! Oh well.. geek is good! Yay!

After two years of LJ celibacy, I'm back in the land of pointless ramblings. Having an online journal has never really been my thing, but I thought I might try to keep on updating this thing this time around. Besides, I need the practice! Since I'm retaking English and stuff.. Haha! It's been a few years since I had English in school now, and I feel like I'm still stuck at the same level I was back then. So excuse my stupid errors and mistakes, I'm trying here!

Ever since I graduated from folk high school, my life has been pretty boring. I went from being surrounded by people 24/7 to sitting home alone most of the day. Not exactly an ideal situation. But I'll cope. I knew from the very beginning that this year was gonna be filled with a lot of work, and limited time for social activities. Which sucks. But it's necessary. I don't wanna be stuck at home for another year. Next year, I'll hopefully go off to uni and have a blast. Though I'm not really sure what I wanna study yet.. Lately I've been thinking that if I don't get into Journalism (which I don't really have a chance of getting into anyway), I might study some weird language or something. Hey, why the hell not? Knowing various languages is always useful!

I'm bored. Somebody save me!