Monday of Doom

So today is the last day I have here in the US before leaving for Japan. I'm sad and homesick already. There's still so much stuff I have to do before we leave for Chicago tonight. For one thing I'm not finished packing, not that I don't have it all together but I'm trying to distribute it all and figure how what needs to go where. Also the customs form thing is annoying because I have to know EVERY SINGLE THING that is going into the box and everything that is going into the suitcase instead. ::sigh:: this would be much easier if I could just throw it in there and go.

I have renewed my prescription, visited the dentist, gotten back my passport with the visa in it, and looked at every bit of info I could about the train schedules and airport layout. I'm also brining my japanese textbook and my kanji book on the plane with me so I can brush up more before I get there. I feel completely inadequate though because I didn't spend the whole summer memorizing kanji and working on vocab and stuff. I hate that, that I was going to school and working a lot and was just too burned out period to want to get those books out when I got home and work on them too.

Gaby from Study Abroad called me today on the phone. I was worried on friday because nothing else had come from Otaru for me about school since July and they said they were going to send me more things at that time. I e-mailed her AND Otaru's international office because I didn't know whether anyone was going to be at the airport to meet me or not. I'm freaked about riding the train by myself. Well ok not about riding the train but about getting on the right one, and sitting there for an hour and then getting off and it being 8:30/9:00 pm at night and nobody being at the international house to let me in. I mean... it would be hard to arrive with my stuff and have nowhere to sleep that night you know? So over the weekend, while being completely upset I made alternate plans in which I will take the train to Sapporo and stay in a hostel there for the night ($35) and then go on to Otaru in the morning when I know somebody will be there.

So anyway Gaby called me this morning having received my e-mail, and told me that she thought somebody would be there to get me at the airport, but like I said I'm not betting on it you know? I told her about the stuff I was supposed to receive from their office and she asked me if I'd e-mailed them about it. I told her that I had and that I hadn't had a response yet. So I think we're both a little flummoxed. You'd think that they'd be open last night (morning monday their time) and that they would answer my e-mail back but maybe they werent there, or maybe they didn't get to it because it was in english instead of Japanese. ::sigh:: Oh well. Ok so I'm heading off to Japan and I probably won't write in here again for a few days because I'll technically be in the air for a few days!

Love to Everybody! And Sayonara America!