Checklist

Passport sent off for renewal.......check!

Flight ticket home to England.......check!

2 boxes sent home to England.....check!

3 more boxes waiting to be sent......check!

3 lots of accommodation booked for my hols (KL, Melaka, Singapore)......check!

Contact with successor.....still waiting for a name!

New CV written...check!

Job applications......done a few, and been offered 2 telephone interviews (for jobs in Sicily and Hong Kong), but I don't actually want either of the postions!

Enjoying my last 2 months in Japanland....check! I'm off for my favourite tonkatsu tonight, going to baseball in 2 weeks, got leaving parties coming out of my ears, a school festival to enjoy, a mini roadtrip round the Guch to take heaps of photos on, and have done a lot of the boring organisey bits of moving home, so now I can just enjoy all the other fun stuff!

I leave Japan in 47 days.