Monday I filled out my Learning Agreement’s “During” section and sent it forward and got my courses approved. A lot of weight dropped from my shoulders, it was causing some stress as I had to remove a course that would’ve helped my studies back home, but you have to be in Intermediate or Advanced Japanese…

Monday Most of my day consisted of getting my courses and schedule together, there had been a lot of miscommunication between schools about the courses so I had to pick new ones and drop a few. This had been my main cause of stress for a while, but I finally got everything worked out. So…

Monday My first proper school week started off with a 9-15 school day, where I attended the language courses and Introduction to Japanese Cinema course. So far so good, the cinema course seems pretty interesting and fun, even though we have to write essays after watching movies but that’s just perfectly fine to me. After…

So here from out, I will try to briefly let you know about my weeks here abroad from Monday to Sunday. Edit: In case of really bad weather or other similar factors I may not write about some days (more about this in the next post). たのしんでください! (Tanoshinde kudasai = Please enjoy) Monday The first…

Flying to the other side of the planet Yesterday on 17th of August I arrived to Japan. My first flight departed in the evening of the day before that and arrived to Tokyo on the 17th. I barely slept at all on the flight, but got to eat two Japanese styled meals on the flight,…

My feelings before departure Comparing the feelings I’m having now to back in 2015 when going on exchange to the US for a whole year, I’m way calmer and feeling neutral about going through this again. I was about crying all the time four years ago for two weeks before leaving as I was starting…

Hi! This is my first post in which I will be talking about a few things concidering my upcoming exchange: applications, getting a student visa, insurance and all that boring stuff. In the next post I will mostly be talking about my own feelings about the whole thing. Application for Seinan Gakuin University So I…