Ok, so basically I have nothing to do right now, so...

I shall write a final list of things I miss and things I'm going to miss.
The teachers/family goodbye party was yesterday. So fun, but Sarah and I were shaking the whole way through, and at a party like this where you have to balance your eating utensils, food, presents, and programme all at once, shaking really doesn't help. I dropped one of my chopsticks and a piece of egg, and sarah got water on her shirt, dropped various utensils etc. It was wonderful though. We got the most beautiful (and expensive) music boxes as a going-away present. For some reason, only the bible studies teacher seemed to know what heads, shoulders, knees, and toes was though... In any case.

I'm almost all packed now, and I've been given about thirty Japanese and Korean CDs to download onto my computer, so I'll write this list while downloading them.. all thirty.

Things I miss:

• The ability to sing without worrying about people hearing or caring (I'm unable to do this anywhere. House, you can hear every little sound. School, people everywhere).
• My guitar
• Friends who I'm able to talk with without translating it in my head first
• My mum and her awesomeness
• My cats (shocking)
• Being able to understand what's going on in a conversation without having to focus all energy towards that understanding (if I space out when they're talking, then stop spacing out again, even if it was only a few seconds, I'll be completely lost)
• Not having to be smiley and 'first-impressiony' all the time
• My mum's cooking
• Non-bipolarity
• My room!!! (rather than sharing with others)
• Not feeling like I'm in the way all the time
• Taking five minutes at a slow-paced walk to get to school
• Having none of a specific teacher.

Things I'm gonna miss:

• That sense of overwhelming friendship every time someone talks to you
• Long hugs (they hug for longer in this country it seems)
• Being overwhelmingly 'odd one out'
• The fast-paced Japanese classes (they're annoying when you're doing them, but you learn so much more, so it's worth it)
• Everything being new and interesting
• The ability to so easily walk down the street and buy so many awesomely cute books for shockingly low prices
• The ability to so easily walk down the street and buy so many awesome manga volumes for shockingly low prices (about five bucks per)
• The knowledge that there's a Vivienne Westwood store in the same city
• Bentou + moving desks together to have lunch (just gives a strong sense of family)
• My new Japan friends!!! 
• The possibility of making new Japan friends
• The having to squat and call out your name for roll-call at PE (don't know why though...)
• Being allowed to wear mufti to school
• Writing letters instead of emails
• Being called skillful if you do something well, and being called cute if you don't
• The feeling of absolute improvement at any moment.

There's more, but I'm nearly out of battery, so that's all for now. And I'm not even through all the Arashi CDs yet.