The Road Less Traveled

Asuke, Part 2: Prior to Departure (B-side)

Sunday, March 8th, 2009 by Rintaun | Uncategorized

So, sorry it took me so long to get this up… I think I’m going to type up the rest of the Asuke trip here tonight, if I have time. Anyway, on to the main event…!

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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009: 3 days prior to departure
Well, Thompson-sensei will be here later tonight. Tomorrow is the first day of orientation. It still seems like just another class explaining just another trip, though. I don’t think I’ll really get the difference until I get there. Today, though, I held a conversation with the parents of some children at the English school where I’ve been helping out this week for a full hour. It really made me a lot more confident in my Japanese ability. And oh yeah — I passed the 2kyu JLPT!!! That definitely helps my self-confidence, too — something which is going to be necessary on this trip, I think. I’m looking forward to ending the wait and just going.

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Thursday, February 19th, 2009: 2 days prior to departure
Well, we had our first day of orientation today. We took some quizzes on the readings and I blanked out on quite a bit of it… But I don’t think I did too poorly. We also handed in the summaries we had to write, which I think went pretty well. Hopefully, all in all, it comes out to be a good grade… Nothing extraordinary has dawned on me yet, and I’m still feeling not a whole lot of anything special about this trip.

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Thursday, February 20th, 2009: 1 day prior to departure
Second day of orientation is over. It’s nearly midnight now and I just realized that I forgot to write this. I also just realized, as I’m writing this, that I haven’t packed yet… I really need to get on that. Other than that, today was a pretty normal day. Hung out, watched anime, didn’t really do much of anything special. The next ten days are going to be so packed, probably, that I won’t have the time (or, really, the means) to do anything “normal” that happens in my day.

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That’s all for the pre-Asuke entries. Following soon will be the first set of actual Asuke entries.

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