When?

I've told myself early April, and that still stands but when you're planning something like this it's difficult to find a cut off point. theres always something that you wish you could stay for. My sister's 18th birthday is in July and Muse are playing Wembley stadium in June. I'd love to be in the country for both of these events, but if I was to hang about much longer then more things would come up.

"Oh, I'll just wait for the Reading festival, then I'll go.... oh, I might as well get Christmas out the way." And before I know it, I'll be 30, still selling tins of beans at the local store and still talking about going to Japan.

No, it has to be this year and it has to be before June. So April is my target.

Real Gap based in Tunbridge Wells, has a great package, and this is the one I've been looking at for a while now.
599 pounds is a nice sum to pay for help applying for a visa, finding a job, somehwere to live and access to the computers in their 11 offices dotted around the country.

Flights are paid for separately, so I'll probably go to the flight centre and get a one way ticket, or see how much an open-ended ticket is going to cost.

The next time I post I shall probably have booked the programme... either that or been rejected for being under-qualified at anything useful to any Japanese employer.

So til then.
Cya