3 Weeks to Japan

First off, I got my hair colored on Monday. It looks ok, not the exact color I was thinking it would be but they're not hideous highlights or anything. Lol. Kim did them and it was really funny because I had to wear this stupid cap that looked like something out of an old lady's purse. Check out the pictures here:
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2400255310093406980lfBfHu

Next up I'm 3 weeks from Japan and I've started practicing my Japanese again. If I didn't spend the summer working/going to school I probably would've started studying earlier. Hopefully I don't completely flunk the kanji part of the placement test. I also signed up for Skype today so I can talk to my mom for like 2.3 cents a minute from Japan. Mwahahaha. Now all I need is a headset. I'd love to have a wireless one but you have to use bluetooth for that and my computer doesn't come with it so I'd have to buy an adaptor, the cheapest one I've found is $25 adn then I found a bluetooth headphone/microphone for $19 but that's like $45 and I can get a regular headset for like $14.95. So it won't be wireless which sucks a bunch because that means I'll be stuck to my computer while on the phone and I like to wander when I'm talking.

If you don't know what skype is and are traveling abroad I suggest you check it out. You can talk to other people on skype for free but you can also make phone calls to landlines as long as you have a headset or a microphone. Because it uses VoIP (voice data turned into digital signal data packets, sent over internet, and then reassembled into voice data again) it doesn't cost very much to use. You can even pay $30 a year and get unlimited calls to anywhere in the US or Canada. I think I'm also going to pay for the voicemail, so if people try to call me while I'm not online I'll know and can call them back. But maybe I won't, it's like $20 and they can send me an e-mail for free dammit. Lol.

I just need to finish my packing list, study some more, and buy some new clothes and shoes to take with me since everybody in japan is so small and skinny. :)