When the dream is gone the world is a lonelier place

I should probably be ashamed for having found the title of this blog on a post on LookBook..

But if I hadn't found the line you'd probably have to wait a while longer before I told you my plans. meh.

So.. did I tell you that I'm going to spend a year studying in Tokyo?  I fly out September 13th at 9:10 in the morning and I hope that my brother and sister will get up ready enough to come see me off at the airport, especially since I'm sure they'll be able to get to school in time afterwards. Maybe they could nap on the way. I have a 4 hours stop over in Abu Dhabi and will land at Narita Airport around lunchtime. Then I must send my luggage to my dorm and take a Skyliner to Ueno where I will meet someone from the hospitality team and will be escorted to my dorm in Toda Koen. I'll be living some 45 minutes away from uni. The journey time includes the walk to the station, changing trains and walking to uni.

I have two weeks off around Christmas and New Year's, and I'm hoping some friends studying abroad for the year will come visit me or I may go visit them. I have a month off from mid-February to mid-March and I'm going home for about a week. During this week I will visit Kent: sit in on anth lectures with Clare and Matt, have dinner with some friends and give them gifts. Then during half term I will fly out to Tokyo with my family. My year ends in July and I have one more year at Kent.

Since the 2011-2012 year at Kent will be my last, next summer will be the last opportunity for me to work at Walt Disney World in Florida under their scheme for interntional college students. I need to put a CV together as soon as I can, post it off to the appointed recruitment agency and hope they can arrange for my interview to take place while I come back in February.

Then after I graduate I want to spend a year with the JET program as an assistant in schools helping children practise their English speaking. This way I'll have two awesome referees to add to my CV and will be able to apply for working with Camp America.