At last! New creations are scheduled to appear on Aug the 6th, and my inspiration seems to be back, as well as a month of free time! Yay! But from September I will not have so much time, unfortunatelly...

Because I made it! I finally made it! After so much time, all the times I failed and feel like an idiot, I finally managed to be accepted to study my dreamt-of major, Japanese! And to one of the best schools in Europe, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London! I'm still in a slight shock - it is ironic that I'll be studying Japanese in English while I'm Polish, but it turned out to be this way. I tried in Poland so many times, but each time I got rejected from more funny reasons and considered "unapropriate", "not good enough" and "not strongly motivated". Me?!? Not strongly motivated? I dream of studying Japanese since elementary school when I saw the first anime in my life, Sailor Moon! I entered the exams so many times, and managed to make through each marathon only for my dreamt-of major, I also learned to live despite not having my dreams fulfilled. And that means not good enough? I love languages, I don't have problems with kanji, I have nice ear for languages and I have the knowledge about Japan that I build for 8 years, and that's not good enough?!? I know that there are only limited numbers of places - it can be studied only on 3 unis in Poland, and each uni has only about 12-15 places, while there are up to 30 candidates per place. But while the recrutation process favor only those with very high grades from English?

Is there any proof that knowing tricky gramatical structures from Shakespeares dramas means having heart for studying all those signs and complicated culture? The statistics show that only 75% of all accepted graduate from this major, where are these 25%? Ok, 5% would be people that were forced to quit because of some family disasters or other difficult life complications. But remaining 20% consists of people, who just lost their hearts for studying, or saw that it is more demanding than they expected. These people are the proof, that the recrutation process is wrong, and eliminates good candidates on the begining. Not only does it eliminate them - it often anihilates them. If not my parents, that can afford me studying for couple of more years and don't force me to finish studying and finding a job, I wouldn't have a chance to study Japanese whatsoever. When I think of how many people studied something they hated, and now do the job they hate simply because they haven't been given a chance to do what they like. By whom? By stupid professors (?), or somebody who makes a recrutation.

So I'll be studying in London, UK! Monogatari ga hajimaru - a Japanese phrase that means "the story (or: a tale) begins". I'll be reporting while creating in London, I hope... That would depend on my mobile computer, whether creating anything on laptop is possible and comfortable... Here I have my precious computer with everything, there I will have only a laptop, I'm not sure whether there'll be enough space even for all Sims and Expansions, not mentioning Accesory Packs... My... I wish I could take this computer with me... And - I will not have a mouse. I need to buy a proper mouse! What a pity I can't take this mouse...

And that's why I don't like changing places - you have to leave it all behind, starting from the scratch... But I know it is worth it!

See you next time, and take care, all of you!

Hannah