Thank you everyone (those who has posted comments here or those who have talked to offline) for your encouraging words! The last few days have been difficult as that the eminant separation from my dearest people has been really hitting home. But the kind, encouraging words like yours help me to keep my positive attitude. I will strive to hold on to that positive attitude to face the awaiting challenges without reservation!
On the news side, my shopping list is slowly being crossed off as I purchase the items I need. This past Friday, I went to Fry's and got 2 webcams, 2 headsets (one for me and one for my family - yay for the world's most money saving invention Skype!), as well as a 1 GB Flash drive (i named it KAMINARI which means lightening in Japanese. get it? Flash drive, my name Hikaru? hahaha) and a wireless network card, handy for making my laptop more portable. I just hope that it will all work for me in Japan because hardware and network issues are NOT my speciality....
Recently, my beloved Canon PowerShot SD200 no longer desires to function for me so rather than get it repaired, I went ahead and upgraded by buying a refurbished Casio EX-S600 super slim card camera - in orange! At 6 mg resolution rather than 3, and even smaller design and a color that i can't mix up with anyone else's camera, i think it will serve my purposes well. You'll be the judge, as you will see the images on this site! It will be delivered tomorrow so i'll do some test pictures then.
Some other things i plan to do to prepare include emailing everyone i know to tell them about this blog, visiting my old high school and seeing my teacher's reactions when the find out what i'm doing, buying a warm winter coat, and having farewell dinners with my friends and family. I know a lot of people, so it's hard to give time to every equally.
Well that's all that's on my mind for now i guess. oh and my mother bought a new Dell desktop with 2 gb of RAM ^_^ it's better than my boyfriends Mac hahaha. anyways i'm off to UPS to go pick it up since i missed the shipment earlier.
So till next time........
(20 days and counting)
3 comments:
Ohhh! Wait on the coat. Buy one here! Seriously, I found a great coat at Muji for like 3,000円
You shouldn't have much problem logging on to WiFi networks, it's just finding one. I bet the temple won't have internet. I didn't have internet at my hostfamily for a while and it really made life hard at times. (But, I'm an online radio addict so...)
If you don't have internet at your house there's always 漫画喫茶 and FREESPOT.
http://www.freespot.com/
Oh and if you have a blocked connection where you can't log into AIM etc, or the computer you are useing doesn't have AIM etc (like the computers at my old school) meebo is super useful.
http://www.meebo.com/
>>SleepyTako
Thank you that's very helpful! I checked Freespot and they have an English version that tells all the キサテンthat have Freespot. I'll tryout meebo sometime too.
But the coat... Well, I'm 6ft and i have really long arms. You may have been able to find mens clothing that fits, but i don't know if i will find women's clothing that fits. But how severe is the weather? I know it doesn't snow so much in Tokyo but I'm looking to buy a downfeather coat with a hood... do you think that's a good idea? Do you think they have women's coats to fit me?
Hey~! So weird that I ran into u @ Nihon-machi today...anyways, have fun in Japan and send me some pix ;)
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