Heading to London tomorrow

Yup, going to stay with my brother for a night in London before heading up to stay with some friends in Sheffield ^o^ It's going to be fun~ These are the two girls that I will hopefully be living with when I get back from Japan, so it will be nice to see how we get on etc~ I'm sure we'll be wonderful xD

I'm not taking my laptop with me so it will be iPhone for the whole time I'm there. Luckily I have the Blogger app on it. I will try and blog :) I'll hopefully include photos too.

Don't think I'm doing anything in London tomorrow, but I get a couple of days there on the way back, in which I might be meeting up with a friend and getting Purikura etc~

Fun times ahead :)
Lu x

End of 1st semester

Yum yum. Having a lovely white chocolate snow ball in our union coffee shop :) Today's speaking exam went really well I think. Me and some friends practiced soo much last night, we even ended up singing it in different styles. Anime theme tune, Disney etc My friend Laura has such a sexy bishonen voice lol. Got to go home and pack in a bit, leaving for London at 1:30pm tomorrow. Going to china town and Japan centre with my brother, it's gonna be awesome :D! Xx

OMG guys~

I found out where i'm going for my year abroad today. and BOOYAH, going to Kyoto.
I'm sooo happy right now it's unbelievable ^o^
I have my Contemporary texts assignment to finish, and some Kanji to do, but once that's done I'll sort out my year abroad blog xD

love you guys xxx

My heart lies in Kyoto

I've been thinking about my Year Abroad a lot recently, and where I want to go.
I don't want to go anywhere but Kyoto. It means a lot to be and holds a place in my heart. I have wanted to go there and felt connected to it for over 3 years now and there is no where else.
I really really want to spend my year in Japan there, however, it's been known that our place of choice gets ignored in the allocation of Universities.
I did put Kyoto down and my reasons why, but it's not 100% that i'd get it. There are 3 Universities we are paired with there. And it would make my year, and me soo happy if i was to get Kyoto.
I should find out in 2 weeks or so, and i will definitely let you all know. As well as getting to work on a new blog to cover my year in Japan.
As for now... i will be hoping with all my heart for Kyoto, and practising my language skills.

Lu xx

Last Day 最後の日

今日は一年生の年間の最後の日よ。ちょっと悲しいね～。「はず」と「うちに」と「間」を勉強した。

(I'd fine tune and write loads, but can't be bothered xD)

So anyways, it was the last day of being a first year student. I still have exams left though. 2 Japanese, 1 Economy. Probably another Economy too (Chinese Economy [a retake])

I'm going to miss my class from this year. We're all like a little family haha a lot has happened this year. (I'll post my Japanese essay about my first year. It'll be in Japanese though, so sorry to those who can't read it.) I can remember my first class~ ahh memories ^^

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What I've been up to lately..

Hey everyone, I sincerely apologise for the lack of updates over the past couple months.

I'm now at University, I thought I'd have enough time to blog once a day or something, but my course is EXTREMELY intense. x_x

Japanese Studies lol That's my main degree, but this semester I'm doing modules in Japanese Politics and Chinese Economic Development.

Mid Terms are next week, so i'm studying like crazy hehe Hopefully in the future, like next semester or in 2nd year i'll do a few blogs now and again in Japanese. For the practice and something different now and again haha.

Here are some pics from Halloween:

Vampire for the JSOC party :)

Zombie for ScaryTarts

Circle lenses certainly come in handy for Halloween :)

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Losing Weight yay!

I've dropped a dress size already since i've started University.

Fresher's week had a big impact on this, not sleeping, not eating, hungover most of the time lol. Also where my Uni is, there are a lot and i mean A LOT of steep hills. The union and my classes are like almost 2 miles from my accomodation. This is good, cause I'm like guaranteed to walk at least 4 miles a day.

Back at home everything was flat and I had a car, so I was lazier than I am at the moment. I need to get the whole healthy eating thing perfected then I'm sorted. I need to eat more fruit and veg lol. I've got like 1 apple left, so i should really buy some more tomorrow when I go past Eurospar ^o^

Lu x

Course and Freshers

hey everyove.

Freshers week is almost over and I must say so far i love University.
The freedom is amazing, can do what I want, wear what I want etc Everyones really nice too. As you may know I'm doing Japanese Studies, a very intense and difficult course, however from what I've heard about it, it's made to be fun and an enjoyable course. The 2nd and 4th years (3rd year is spent in Japan) have been increadibly helpful. They've been giving out loads of advice, their old textbooks, study tips and even showing us places within Sheffield. There is a huge Chinese market about a 45minute walk away, it's got pretty much everything. I bought some gyoza skins, so i'm going to have to make some of those when I get a chance~

My accomodation is pretty cool too~ My flatmates are lovely, and my room is pretty big. I've decorated it already with photos and study material haha. If anyone wants to send me stuff to put on my walls please contact me via formspring or facebook (links on the side) lol

I've got Freshers Mania tonight. Huge show. We have Fragma, Aggros Santos and more playing. We were meant to have Mr Hudson, but he had to cancel. Chicane are playing instead! xD yay. <3 my SU lol

Lu x

Finally fully packed! Short Hiatus

こんばんは皆さん～

So, tomorrow I leave for University. It's quite sad really, I gave in all my uniform and my discount card in at work, plus my room looks soo empty now everythings packed up. First time it's been this tidy lol

I'm going to miss home a lot, I know I am :/ But there's nothing I can do about it. I'll be up north far away from here. And OMG the travelling is expensive!! Unless I get a bus of course. But who wants to sit on a bus for 6 hours.... nope. didn't think so lol meh, i'll be home for Christmas.

Tomorrow we're setting off at 10am and I probably wont have internet set up until Sunday. Or Monday at the latest. For one post i have lined up i need to use the video program on my mac, and thats packed up. So once that's sorted you'll have a nice new post to read / watch.

Staying in a Travelodge tomorrow night, then moving in on Saturday morning. Party Saturday night after unpacking and having food etc then SLEEP. I'm going from a double bed to a single -___- thats going to take some time to get used to. Hope I dont roll out of bed in my sleep lol.

Here's me signing out for now. I'll still be checking my formspring.me so don't forget to leave me a message there, or any questions. [I have internet access on my mobile so i can get it and Facebook :P ]

Talk to you soon and Good night ^o^
またね！おやすみなさい！

Lu xxx