10 days

Travel journal, travel wallet, Japanese phrasebook, Moleskin Japan, Holga, Fujifilm Instax, Fujifilm X10, Lonely Planets Japan, Lonely Planets Korea and just a snippet of all the photos I'll be taking of loved ones.

Ten days till I officially take this journey! Time is flying by so fast and secretly I'm getting impatient. I've started packing, but packing just means throwing everything I think I need in the lounge and just leaving it there, not even putting it in the luggage. Incredibly lazy, but I think when it hits 2 or 3 days left till the big day I'll start panicking and start finally start packing.

Funny story and just a pure example of me being really irresponsible and unaware of everything. I went to the city the other day to get my visa. The next day I needed to apply for my centrelink payments and I thought I lost my passport. I panicked. I honestly believed I lost it for 2.5hours and I just doubted myself. If I lose my passport now, imagine me in a different country. I called up UTS security just to ask if anything was handed in and I was going to call the Japanese Consulate next. Till I looked at my little slip they gave me after I applied for my visa and it said "keep this slip or you may not get your passport back". So the Japanese Consulate actually took my passport in order to print the visa on it and I didn't even notice. So unaware! Need to change this or I know I'm going to just place my passport somewhere and not even notice.

Also, I've already planned on meeting my host sister in Japan on my first weekend in Japan. Yuumi is my host sister from 2008. We've kept in contact and even though we don't talk as much as we liked our relationship has stayed consistant. I'm so excited to see her and also for her to take me around Tokyo. Thank God because my Japanese have decreased in the past 4 months and I can't even string a sentence together or even introduce myself properly!

Till my next entry.
Gerry.
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