Less than 2 days until the HAL-MODE FESTIVAL. Everyone has off tomorrow, but being part of the Assistant Staff means that I have to drag my ass out and take a tour of where the HMF is being held so that when the high schooler I’m showing around asks burning questions such as, “Where’s the bathroom?” I won’t give them a blank stare or start crying or something.

I mostly just hope that I’ll get a nice and chatty student, so when I have obvious Japanese Fail it won’t result in an awkward silence that lasts for several hours. No, seriously, when I was in charge of entertaining prospective students during the AO (dunno what it stands for; it’s basically a mock class so prospective students can get a feel for the school) there was like 5 minutes of awkward silence in which all my efforts to start up a conversation died a miserable, embarrassing death. I ended up telling them random facts about the school until more people arrived. My reputation as “the weird foreigner” is justly deserved, believe me.

So, anyway, I’ll have more to report on this time-honored school tradition of mine later (the HMF, not letting weird foreigners be in charge of entertaining prospective students). Just felt like giving a random update, since it’s much easier to do that than to do more work on the FAQs.

Today began what I’m going to call “Test hell”. I took all three of the tests that make up the Information System certification for the J-ken. I’m sure I failed all three (although I’m pretty sure I could have passed the programming if I had studied a bit), but that was a given. I did it mostly to get a feel for what the Systems Administration exam I’m taking in October will be like.

Next week, though, I have three school exams. They’re all based on the homework we did over the break. I’m so not worried about the CL one; as long as I don’t make stupid mistakes I could easily get 100% on it.

The AD and CS ones are more worrisome, though. My teacher says that he’ll be happy if we get 60%, but I got 44% and 54% (respectively) on the homework. And I didn’t study at all this weekend. And it wasn’t timed, so I could stare at the questions all I wanted. Oh well, I guess I’ll just hope that I get somewhere close to 60% and then do better at studying the material.

Wish me luck!