I’ve been studying hard, pushing my Heisig number to over 1000 in the last week and continuing to neglect this blog over the last month due in part to a high study volume as well as general ongoing commitments to work. I’ve cranked up my Anki flashcard addition to 50 a day in an effort to get Heisig finished in the next month to allow me to move onto learning 10,000 sentences. Hitting the halfway mark seems like a good milestone, and has given me a spurt of motivation to get it finished. If only there was a more social way of doing reading and writing study… This site seems to promise a slightly more social method to learning reading and writing so perhaps I will check that out at some point.

In other news I’ve handed my notice in in work. Quite a drastic move some may think given the current economic climate. However, I’ve come to the conclusion that, if I don’t set the ball rolling somehow, I’ll always be thinking of working in Japan as some slightly intangible thing some half-dozen months away in the future. So I handed my notice in and bought a flight for the beginning of August, and have started putting my application together for a Working Holiday Visa. The working holiday visa seems relatively painfree to apply for (although it does require £1,500 of savings and a ticket out the country to apply for, which has meant a knock on the head to smoking and socialising for the last few months to achieve). In any case, with this done, I have to study hard, have to apply for jobs and generally have to put lot’s of effort in, else I end up like the guy in the above pic. I’ll be moving in with my girlfriend in Koenji, where, hopefully, she won’t be asking for too much rent for the first couple of months. Hopefully actually living in Japan will give me more to talk about on this blog, which is another good point and I figure I can earn enough to start with doing English teaching and bar work to carry me through until I find an industry job.

Anyway, back to study! Here’s hoping that number is significantly closer to 2000 next time I write (which in turn is hopefully closer than a month away).

またね

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