(Blogging takes a lot of effort. Especially when you don't want to sound self-centred or whiny. Or my delay in finishing the blog post on my trips to Wildwood, Old Trafford and Liverpool could be down to simple sloth.)

I'd like to share some news with you: I've been accepted by Waseda Uni in Tokyo to study there for a year and I'm very excited! I fly out on September 13th around 9am from Heathrow and arrive at lunchtime the next day. In exactly threee months to this day orientation begins. Three months gives me plenty of time to hunt around for a job to build up funds, improve my Japanese, learn to cook, read the material required by the core modules I expect to have failed and so expect to be requested to resit over the summer..