Five days left

Okay, today it’s only five days left before I’m going to the mountains with the school for about eleven days. After that I’ll be home for about two days and then I will go away again and be gone twenty-three days. So you could say that I’ll be gone for 36 days in a row. I doubt that I’ve ever been away from my home for that long ever. So this will be very exciting, this journey I’ll take alone.

This journey have got me all psyched up. It’s completely new, and I’ll be going on my own overseas for the first time in my life and try to survive with the little resources I have available. The thought of something new is always thrilling. To be blunt I’m both excited as well as worried.

What if something goes wrong, how will I deal with that and how will everything go? Am I able to this? Alone? What if I forget something? Will my own skills and abilities be enough to fulfil this journey?

The uncertainty and the new thing over the whole thing make it even more fun. It’s not only a journey it’s THE Journey. A puzzle to solve, a test for my own abilities, can I really take care of myself? I have a lot of expectations, which I know by experience isn’t that good to have during trips like these. But I also know that if I have high expectations and expect the most complicated problems to appear and occur, then I’ll be prepared for them and most likely they won’t occur so I’ll then have a pretty easy trip. But what can one say, you can never be too cautious and prepare too much… but that’s a lie. You actually can…

Today I’ve paid for all the tickets and everything I could pay from here. The only thing left is to pay for the stay and everything I’ll buy. I wonder if my greediness will hold when I see everything Tokyo has to offer (or everything Tokyo doesn’t have…). But now it’s no going back¹. Now it’s just to let live and let die.²

I’m going to speak with my Japanese teacher too before I’ll go. Want some tips from her before I’ll go over there and disgrace myself. I’m going to read some stuff too before I go. Need to be a little updated on what to expect and get a better… overall picture. I also thing I’ll need to borrow some money for my stay if things would go out of hand at my stay. I don’t want to be homeless in Tokyo, hehe.

Well, as for the trip to the mountains, it will probably be my last doing at the university before the autumn term. But who knows? Japan may give me new motivation or maybe change me entirely! It’s just to wait and see. However, during my trip in the mountains I’ve prepared post for all the days I’ll be gone. While in Japan I’m hoping on having internet so I’ll try to report what happens over there. I’ll probably be online sometimes on MSN but as I figured yesterday it would be around 03:00 and 15:00 your time. But well, some days I’ll may be staying by the computer quite a lot.

About that… I think I’ll need to get some adapters and such for my electricity stuff in Japan. I don’t want to go there without being able to charge Linsuss or my cellphone when I find out that their sockets are completely different form here (which they are). But I think I got it covered for the laptop at least, the cell phone and the MP3 is the problem at the moment.

Well that’s about it.

Best regards,
Herid Fel

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