Thursday, August 31, 2006

Finally !!!

Yeah ! I know when i'm leaving !!!
I'm quitting France in 12th september in the afternoon, and gonna get to Japan in 13th in the morning.
I definitly feel relieved to know that. I was really pissed of waiting so much.
But there's a bd thing about it. I'm not having "student" visa, but i'm appliying for "working-hollidays" visa. that's pity because this visa is available only once a lifetime. You can use it before you're 30, and with it you can go one year in Japan looking for a job, or for fun, and for that you only need a go/back plane ticket, and a certain amount of money on your account, wich is afordable if you got some savings. of course you also need a Curiculum Vitae, a motivation letter, and a place where to live (at least for the starting times), but if you're really motivated, and serious it should be fine.
So i'm fillfulling all the documents at the moment, and have to write the motivation letter, and tomorrow morning I got a meeting with the japanese ambassador in Lyon o_O.

I can't use the "student" visa, because i can't wait anymore for it. Most of my friends got it in the middle, or the end, of June, but the teacher wich is taking care of me and Meleika (The girl going in the same uni as me in Osaka, you can see the link to her website, but unfortunatly it's only in french) only sent us the documents to apply for the certificate of eligibility in the middle of august.
At that moment, Meleika and me already booked our plane tickets, but we had to delayed it many times. Hiro-chan (nickname i gave to that teacher when i was upset), told us he should get this certificate on 25 August, but when he went to the immigration Bureau today, they told him we still have to wait a long time before we could get it.
Problems !! After 12th September there's no free sits on planes before october : And we starting our classes in October 4th.
So the only way left to leave in time was to apply for the "workin-hollidays" visa.
Anyway that's pity i had to waste that cool and convenient visa, but i really feel better since i know i will leave in less than 2 weeks.

Friday, August 25, 2006

Not yet ....

I woke up early this morning, to check my mails, but unfortunatly i didn't get this "fucking sonnovabitch damn" certificate.
My teacher said to wait till tomorrow that he will maybe get it, but i don't believe in it too much, so i'm kind of prepared to delay my flight. Seems there's still some free sits on 12th september.
So i will see tomorrow, and go to the travel agency if i need to.

About this blog, i don't know what's wrong with blogger, and i know i'm not really good in this kind of things, but it's not working well. When i wanna add some links sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. So at the moment there's the same link twice, and no other one.
I want to add the link of my favourites websites, but also my friends websites talking about japan.
So If i can fix the problem you should be able to see that soon.

So i guess it's just an other day waiting for this damn certificate....

Thursday, August 24, 2006

Going to Japan (...soon)


Buriburi desu !Maybe some of you read some of my post as Rocky on http://www.nihonfever.blogspot.com/, but i don't think so, so i guess i should start to introduce myself, and explain why i'm creating this blog.

Actually i'm gonna go one year in Japan, so i wanna use this blog as a diary for myself (it's my female instinct wich tells me to keep a diary), but also to exchange with you what's happening to me there. So you don't have to read it if you not interesting; If you wanna make some stupid comments you welcome, i don't mind, cuz i'm doing the same on some blogs, but at least be smart and write some funny !

Well let's back to the main topic : myself !I'm french boy gonna be 20 soon, kinda handsome, and i studied japanese for 2 years.
I'm gonna take university courses for during one year in Osaka Shiritsu Daigaku.Then why writting in english, and not in Japanese or in French ?
First of all, i like writting in english. I need some practice on my english skills and i guess it's a good one.
Then i Wrote in French all my life, need some change, and i'm not good enough to write in Japanese.
Finally, i guess it's the best way to be read by lot of people. Not that i don't wanna be read by french people, but i guess most of french people interested in japan are some dumb teenagers who only like video games and Naruto (and of course their holy bible Naruto Video Games), and some frustrated girls who practice kissing with their hands, when watching some Gackt Video. And i won't bother describing fat cosplayers.So French people who can understand english got at least some knowkedges, and lot of other people in the world can read this language, so that's definitly the best way to be read.

I'm not yet in Japan, and i don't know exactly when i'm gonna leave.Actually i already bought a plane ticket for september 7th, but i'm still waiting for a "certificate of eligibility" to apply for my visa.I should know tomorrow morning if i can get it in time or if i need to change my flight.
So i guess that's now that my trip is starting, in this waiting for my visa.I'm really impatient and i'd like to be in Japan next week, but that's unfortunatly impossible.

It's bit late in the night, i'm fucking tired, and don't wanna bother taking care of this blog, so there will probably be nothing (i mean no pictures, no profile, no links) on this blog for few days.Here in France i don't have access to interrnet every days, so i don't know when i can update all of this, but if there's some people reading it, then enjoy it.Thanks, and enjoy the coming 12 months.