D-4 Another day

Woke up at 12pm. Watched Oprah whilst eating jja jang myun. That's life.
Mother came home and made kimchi jun (korean style pancake). She craved korean rice wine so bought a bottle on the way (pictured above) to the GP and Post Office and I bought a bottle at the groceries.

I had to get a check up on my eye and buy a box at the Post Office to send a parcel to my dorm. I have so many coats that takes up way too much room so will send it over since it's spring/summer in Japan now.

I also got my last pay today! I'm 1k short than my goal amount but I think it should suffice. Rent is cheap, youth allowance is plenty plus i'm planning to tutor a few kids there so I should be survive. I'll use around 3-4k for my major trip in the summer holidays that will include visits to nagoya, kanto region (Osaka, Kyoto, Nabe), Hiroshima, Shimonoseki and than...Seoul!!!!!WOO HOO.


Also, met up with R and E after dinner at stratty but then we came back to eat the rest of the kimchi jun at my place! haha such ajummas.


R and E bumming in my room

D-5 Bored

Never though I would say this, but I'm beginning to feel bored.

Life without no uni or work is great but bumming at home the whole day can take its toll.

I studied a bit, watched Oprah, watched a Jap movie (Sand Chronicles) and slept a lot. Also went to W's house to install new ram on my computer. Laptop runs faster than before which is so much better.

D-6 Baeksoo life

Isn't life grand on a Monday with no work?
I woke up at 10pm, took a shower, ate, bummed around, went to Macquarie centre and finally got my International Drivers License! Collected my contacts at the optometrist and bought KFC with my mum on the way home.

I've started p-p-packing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

D-7 One week to go

I got a facial today at Ella Rouge. A glycolic peel to be exact. Feels good but will take a few days to see results.

Then went to my Grandpa's place and then to my gomo-halmoni (my grandpa's younger sister) with my dad as well for dinner. I love talking to older relatives. They have so much to tell about their lives and experience and so much wisdom to share.

After dinner, I met up with A to have icecream, fries and apple pie at maccas. She's my true fatty eating partner. Who am I going to have iceream with at 10pm when i'm overseas? So sad.

D-8 Irreplaceable

We had a farewell galbi dinner tonight with my closest group of friends (known them for 10 years already).

Seriously, I'm going to miss them heaps when I'm in Japan :(

We're going to dress up and have drinks on Thursday!

D-9 Same as yesterday

Went to Parramatta and bought everything else on the list. Got home and relaxed.

D-10 This is life

What a PRODUCTIVE day.

A list of all the things I did today:

- Cleaned my room (finally!)
- Centrelink all finalised
- Went to the Optometrist to buy my contacts
- Commonwealth bank to cancel my account and ANZ to get rid of my account fees (I'm still a student!)
- Chemist warehouse to buy necessities for my exchange and bought 90% of all things I listed beforehand

This was all done from 12 to 5pm commuting by public transport!
All I need to do is go to NRMA to get my international drivers permit and buy the rest of the 10% items I've listed which I will do tomorrow. I actually added 3 more "to do" things this arvo. Shall do them all tomorrow.

I want to get everything out of the way by this week so I can start hitting the books. It's imperative I study and revise my Japanese before I leave. Gotta devise a little study plan for that aswell. Really need to revise kanji. Ergh. I'll be taking a placement test the day after I arrive in Japan and I don't want to be learning the same stuff I did in Jap 6.
So yeh...hopefully it'll all be done by tomorrow.

I met up with E and our lil dongseng, YJ, for dinner. It was nice catching up with YJ. Haven't seen him since he left for Korea last year so that was all good. Will be having a farewell dinner at my place on Saturday with highschool friends (including O's 21st) and then dinner with relos on Sunday.
So basically after the weekend, my "to do" list will be completed. Boxes all checked.
Monday to Friday I'm going to either study at home or at the library, will not spend money and spend more quality time with family and friends (some how avoid monetary expenditure at the same time) before I leave :(

I didn't get to take a photo of the succulent jokbal and negmyun I enjoyed with E and YJ tonight. It was so goooooooooooood. Forgot to take my camera! Doh!

D-12 Second last

My favourite snack these days. Wafers like no other. Y'all gotta try it out.

Tomorrow's my last day at work!

D-13 Skip a day

Yes, I cheated. I've been lazy with this blog so I caught up on 5 days in one go. hehe
but I remembered what I did for each day though!

Also, I recounted the days, and Monday (i.e. today, 22 of March) is actually D-13, not D-14.

I haven't been taking photos, once again, due to my laziness and lack of excitement in this work/home routine.

HOWEVER, I officially have TWO DAYS LEFT AT WORK.

YES. MY LAST DAY IS WEDNESDAY AND TOMORROW IS MY SECOND LAST DAY. YES I FIND IT ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY TO USE CAPS LOCK TO EXPRESS MY EXCITEMENT.

Five months of full-time work will come to an end!!! HURRAAAAH!!

WOW it's going to feel weird.

D-15

Sunday

Church and relaxation.