Work and worrying

On monday I started my first day of full time work which will go on for the next three weeks until I head off to Japan. The job involves inputing all the new students registration details for the University Health Service. So everyday I type in to the Emis system every students name, date of birth, address and contact details. Again and again and again. And that's it. As I'm sure you can imagine, this isn't the most mentally stimulating work so ends up in games involving registration numbers, the the highlight of the day being that I won because I got the number 90,000, and hypothesizing on what name I would like to have instead of Lizzy. Again, that's it really. Hopefully in a week or so I will be upgraded to using the scanner but I doubt it. I'm computerally incompetant so there isn't much point trying to teach me how to use a new machine and system.

The large 'to do' list is gradually getting smaller, I have bought my flight, insurance and have finally got the things I need to get my visa sorted through the post. In light of that I headed down to London for the day to the embassy. Unfortunatley it only took five minutes to get everything sorted for the visa but I had a ticket for the whole day which my mum had bought a while ago; I had no idea what to do for the six hours I had left to waste in London after I has sorted my visa. Normally I would quite enjoy a trip to the capital but have grown less fond of the big cities recently so would rather have spent the day at work. And that's saying somehting.
I did pop in to the massive Oxford Street Primark, it was mental. Unlike Primarks which are up North it has quite a lot of fashionable clothes and it isn't full of over-weight single mothers who have probably never had a job. The shop has a slight sense of hysteria to it- the lingering feeling that everyone is competing for the best bargain and no shelf or clothes rack will remained unsearched. Because of the madness that Primark imparts on people I couldn't really be bothered to get involved so just bought 18 pairs of sock and went on my way.
The big things that I have left to do now are 1.Pack 2.Sort out Japanese work 3.Remember all my Japanese.

Along with the forms for the visa a letter from Yokohama arrived in the post. This letter tells me stuff like where I'll be staying, how to get to Yokohama and so on. But more worryingly it has informed me that the I will have a test on the second day in Yokohama. This test places me in the group that is most suitable to my level of Japanese. I have to try hard because it is really important not to be put in a lower level group; even though it will mean I have a fun year it will be highly detrimental to my fourth year back in Sheffield

Chris flew to Japan on Thursday. I've been very worried for him and haven't been able to sleep well because of it but everything seems o.k. and he's settling in fine.

Phew.