7 hours later I'm heading to university to sit a listening and speaking exam. These are simultaneously the most important skills in language learning, and also my weakest...d'oh! Having forgotten to learn Japanese before I came, I was justifiably nervous...
However, just before the lesson, I discovered the results of the reading and writing exam that I took last Thursday. Somehow, most likely an admin error, I am in top set! Not just intermediate, but upper intermediate! What a fluke, hope its not impossible...
Onto the listening which went so-so, most likely upper-beginner level. This was followed by an interview which actually went surprisingly well but still a strain to be intermediate. I wouldn't be disgraced with a position in the advanced beginner class, which I would endeavour to succeed in and get promoted over Christmas.
With the test over, I intended to head home and do some revision, but as usual something more interesting summoned itself in the form of a brochure for flats in Sannomiya. We then ended up going down the the area and discussing in length with the agents about the costs involved etc. It is a little more expensive then Fukae, but I will save 80,000 (£560) yen over the year on bus fares alone. The main reason I'd admit is the fact we could live by our own rules, have people back at ours and be able to go home around 2/3am rather then 12 or 6.
I would be swapping a rather quiet and distant part of Kobe for this...
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