[Random] Rant of a Kikokushijou; returnee, of Japan

*bows* let me apologize once again for the very inconsistent updates, but, as usual, I will be putting all the blame on the studies and the tedious schedules of the school life.

Firstly, let me describe a typical school day in Dubai. Since I live in Sharjah, I wake up at 5 am to catch the bus at 6.10am so that I can reach the school by 7.10am. IT TAKES AN HOUR, YESSIR. Anyways, the school bell rings at 7.30 and home room begins.

At 10am there is a 20 min long break, and then studies re-commence. At 1pm there is a 10 min long break again, and finalllllllly at 2pm the school ends. I reach home by 3.15, being the last one to get dropped off.
So you can tell me, does this leave me any time to do anything? I'm as tired as a cat without enough sleep, and can more or less just dramatically fall on the floor and snooze. Hence, at the end of the day it's either studying or watching animes, and you can obviously tell, it's the latter I choose.

My AS level results? Two D's and Two C's, Ds' in chem and phy; Cs' in ENGRISH and maths.
It's extremely shocking, yes; but unexpected? Kind of no. I was always considered the 'smart' kind, never studying yet in the top some. Brought down to earth with this heavy result.

Coming to the heading, what is annoying me beyond belief at the moment is not my disappointing marks sheet; it's the Japanese University requirements. Can you guess the top most? Good grades, yes, but not the answer. High English req? Not exactly either.

It's being not Japanese- wholly nor partially.

Having lived in U.A.E my entire life, and my father being Bengali, my sister and I- although eligible for a Bengali passport- opted to a Japanese one since you have to choose between them when you hit 21 and never once thought about making the former. I speak fluent Japanese thanks to anime and J-Pop, and since mom helped me, can read and write...err, middle school level Japanese. So naturally, I need to go for the English-based courses, famously known as G30 (Global 30 bc they wanted 30 unis to participate but only 13 are currently innit. wut xD)
The first req is that I hold nationality, and then grades (of MIN B) and eng req follow.

There was only one out of the 13...mind you, ONLY ONE uni (Nagoya) that adressed returnees and gratefully mentioned that they fall into the International category if they have studied 12 years abroad. The rest, when I clicked the link that said 'returnees', took me to a Japanese website that my mother translated as stating the exam date. In Japanese. Exam in Japanese. I emailed almost all of them citing that I would be finishing 12 years abroad blah blah...Some unis were kind enough to link me back to the site without letting me know what I actually need to know.

Sigh, I actually expected Japanese unis to be a bit more flexible in communicating.

I was extremely surprised that Tokyo University, or the anime famous Todai, didn't have a proper section for Kikokushijou in the English site...it was in Japanese, yep. Only Nagoya and Waseda Dai had the proper categorization, and I was relieved that people are indeed aware that there are returnees who know zero Japanese.

Love Hina- protagonist studying to get in Todai

Tough luck I have, since the English courses are offered by these and similar unis- the 'elite 13' unis of Japan. Waseda Uni was also nice enough to properly explain things like since I'm eligible for a Bengali passport it would be better if I applied for it before trying to get admitted.

So now, even though financially our family is in a pinch, I have to force father to take me to Bangladesh for a passport so that I can apply as an international student who won't be expected to write the exam in Japanese.

Just imagine how it is for a person who is 100% Japanese and abroad, without the knowledge of Japanese language. I can almost see their teary eyes. If you can, fellow returnees, choose UK or other famous countries (educationally) if you can afford to.

Japan why you like this?!

[Random] New school, tons of studies and a dash of drama (EDIT: LONG TIME AGO POST)

SO! It's already been two-three months since I've last blogged. Hmm, I wonder what important things I must have done...?

I don't know ._.
But oh well, let me tell you of the events which have been memorable for me these past few months!

So after switching schools, I've started lagging, mostly because IT'S SO COMFORTABLE!
The school I've studied for the last eight years didn't feel as 'home-y' as this one; in this school everyone accepted me as who I am....infact, SO many kids (yes kids-that's the sad part) come to talk to me!

And everyone in our class is SO nice. It's sad how it's gonna be an affair of a year. or two more months, since in May we all separate our ways.

Anyways, in January, I went to dad's country- Bangladesh, and spent a fortnight there. And that in the midst of exams. Why would I do that, you ask? We-el, my grandmother was terribly sick (still is, so please do pray for her) so we went to visit her after...wait for it, AFTER EIGHT YEARS! yeah. and she's like what, 90+? so just imagine her euphoria at seeing her granddaughters!

and then we met gazillions of relatives. And went to cox's bazaar. Did you know it's the most popular tourist attraction in BD? Despite it being really dirty, literally, with all the trash around, it was really nice- specially the beach and the hotel there called Seagull~

Let's not bore you, and skip skip back to Dubai.
After coming back, my friends and I arranged for another flashmob, like the one in 2011 which was really famous (with us being in Gulf News,Khaleej Times, some Korean channel called KTV as well as KBS) and successful with around 100 people [man, it's a LOT considering it's a country with no flashmobs xD]

BUT. This one failed. I have NO idea why-they're so mean- but only around 4-5 turned up. -_-

Though, this time it was tad more fun because of the pressure being less, because in previous flashmobs  all I can remember doing is screaming endlessly. And having to shoulder the fact that we were organising it so it should be more than just successful (it did succeed, apparently was in I AM movie...a very small clip but it was undeniably there) and of course, our friends from the new school were there too!
So we decided to call the flashmob off and had fun.
A bit boring, but that's how my life is anyways.

[Random] a long, long hiatus

So I'm back after...well, almost half a year.

AND I HAVE LEGIT REASONS FOR THIS 'KAY?! And the reason is-

AS Levels; the ultimate freedom snatcher.

I normally don't study much, maybe half a day when exams are ongoing (yes I'm extremely lazy) and then forget everything I study the very next day after exams. Having said that, my grades aren't thaaaat bad, hopefully.

Or so I thought.

Ever since AS levels begun I haven been constantly reminded of how I have to study if I need to score better than Es, as compared to Bs without studying during the O'levels (mocks I'm talking about). However, being the typical lazy-good-for-nothing girl, I haven't studied even say 3 hours a day, an insult to both my parents coming from countries where academically people are extremely conscientious and hard working. But YOLO, right? (I happen to hate HATE this word but this seems appropriate for the situation I'm presenting) so I chose to enjoy my school life in my new school.

The result? my exams were HORRIBLE with double caps lock font size 24. Now all I do is pray to God to let me get more than I deserve, an act I had done last year as well, and promise I'll do better in A2. Methinks I know as much as Him that I won't, but I'm going to hope for the best obviously.

And yes, my anime marathons were assassinated by said studies. No, I didn't study, but for some reason I was scared that if I started with animes the little motivation I have for studies would dissolve. So i remained anime starved these past few (more like ages) months on mangas.

Anywho, it's done with and all, and I do feel bad abandoning this blog for so long, but hope you can understand. Sorry, okay?  *hugs*

Now, let's go to animes? yay~