Penultimate Hasaam

Day: #117
Funds: Y8500
Towels lost: 3
Shoes/sandals gone through: 4 pairs
Single Awesome Hat Lost: 3-5 times (ultimately left in Fukuoka, I am SO SORRY Temple People Who Gave It To Me I LOVED THAT HAT BUT I TOOK IT OFF BEFORE EVERY MEAL LIKE A GENTLEMAN)
Languages shat all over: 3 (including my own)
Times I got sick: 4
All-nighters pulled: 7 (most of which were the fault of Monica and her inability to concentrate on an essay!!!)
Halfa-Sleeping Pills Devoured: 8
SIM Cards Now Owned: 4
Laptops Massacred: Just one, but boy did he deserve it!
Brilliant Plans Formulated: Okay I have no idea haha I'm not so bad that I COUNT all of them
Old People Confused/Amused/Entertained By My Presence/Antics/Attempts To Speak Their Language/Inability To Follow Their Crazy Old People Accents: Far too many
French People Met: 6 and a half
Germans With Freakish Language Skills Met: 2, one with a more authentic Aussie Accent than me and 1 who could speak English as well as me without ever having lived in a Western Country and Chinese as well as Joy thanks to having lived there and studied properly and solidly for 2 years.
Australians Met: Way more than in Australia
Those From Adelaide: 2 (bwahahaha)
Vegetarians/Vegie Sympathisers Associated With: Maybe 4 or 5? I can cook now!
Number of Signs with 'Joy' included in them seen: More than the number of breaths I've taken in Japan
Vending Machines Encountered: Only slightly less than the Joy-signs
Scams in Shanghai Evaded: maybe 7?
Pairs of pants/jeans destroyed: sadly, both of the ones that I brought from Aus.
Insane Multilingual Conversations Had: Chinese-English-Japanese, done to death. German-English-Chinese, 2 or 3. French-German-English, 2. English-French-Chinese, 3. Japanese-English-Korean, 1. Aussie-English-German, 4 or 5 times (Awesome Chris was keen on slang!!!)
Number of times I have shown foreigners the Sam Newman Street Talk in Cranbourne Clip on youtube to illlustrate the point that I'm not a good representative of my hometown: 3.
Number of times I watched that clip just out of homesickness: Ok that didn't happen haha.
Number of times spontaneously announced, "I figured it out!" and REALLY meant it: maybe once a week?
Michael is as good as home


Ok kiddies, set your alarms!
Flight leaves here 8:20pm local time (10:20pm for those playing at home)
I arrive at the Gold Coast at 6.10am and leave there 7.55am, so no time for stuffing around
Assuming I don't screw that up, 11.10am arrive at Tullamarine, where my dependable sister and My Lovely had better be waiting for me cos they said they would! My mobile battery is dead, so it will be a couple hours before I get home and charge it properly. Most of you will not get hellos without welcoming me back first, and even then replies may not be instantaneous. I do miss you ALL after all, and you know, Joy and members of my immediate family will be actually AROUND me for the first time in nearly a 1/3 of a year. Also, I'm going to visit my Nana! Hooray!~

Tokyo was is and will probably continue to be awesome. I am sad to leave it behind. Which is why there'd better be A HUNGRY JACK'S VEGIE BURGER WAITING FOR ME so I can forget about all the various combinations of sugar and chocolate that I'll never see again.

See youse soon