準備

I've turned in my COE and am waiting until I can apply for my visa now. Plane tickets are on the verge of being purchased and pre-internship vacation is being planned. Now I'm entering the mental preparation stage. How will I survive for 10 weeks by myself? This is one of the scariest things ever. It's totally different from coming to college, or even studying abroad in Japan or China. College was 35 minutes from home, China had relatives, Japan had classmates. This time it's just me. And when I realize that, I start remembering having to go to register myself as an alien and when cops thought I was stealing a bike and that whole fiasco. But back then I had a DESA partner and the other time I had 分ちゃん who calmed me down. Yikes. And in the mental preparation stage, I've thought about my goals again. Remembering back to what they were just a little over a year ago, I have to say: This time, we'll succeed, I promise you. がんばりましょうね！ I'd like to think my Japanese will increase by leaps and bounds, but who knows.