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Better write an entry for September. Much has happened since the last entry, but I'm not going to write about it. Well I'll write a summary, I went to Australia, it was kind of strange for me, nice to see everyone, also a bit depressing, maybe that's Newcastle syndrome. When I was there I tried to imagine what I possibly could do if I lived there, nothing came to mind. Maybe back to the chicken factory, coz I know I'm not qualified for a job in the super market. It was also a funny feeling to be there, a kind of nostalgia, the place where I grew up, but the people and things we did were gone, the buildings and the streets remained, but it was different. It made me think, time is also as important an element as geography, a place can be amazing, but then it can be ordinary, this probably sounds stupid, but I pondered it for a while. Also walking down the main street of Newcastle is kind of depressing, every second shop is closed, or maybe it's more than that, then you get a bunch of freaks who walk around talking to themselves, and then to top it off you get all these wankers driving around in hotted up utes with mag wheels and spoilers. Man. But I know there's more to it, that's the secret of Newcastle, rough on the surface, but if you scratch and dig around you can find some cool stuff, but you have to take the time to look around. But yes, the time element, when you are away from a place, you feel that time stands still, so you can just return and pick up where you left off, but no, when I say you I mean me, or whoever. Yes it sounds even stranger. So I wandered and pondered a bit. This is hard to explain, it didn't help being distracted while writing, it kind of relates to people, to relationships. You meet a person, make a connection, and share an experience, but often we think it's only about the connection, there's always the time and the place which play a big factor. I thought I was onto something while writing this blob of information, but now that I've reached this bit I fell it sounds dumb, but I'm gonna leave it anyway, coz I haven't written anything in ages. My main point is that it was strange, I was slightly bummed, yet slightly excited, maybe it all requires adjustment(ohh here it comes again), like when I moved to Oslo, I thought it was such a boring shithole when I got there, but once I settled in I fell in love with it(kind of), so much so that when I left it was very sad for me, but recently I looked at some Oslo stuff on the net and I felt, I dunno, like there was no way I could ever live there again. There's the time again, I'm in Japan, but I'm also in 2006, so yeah.
Anyway, like I said, I'm back in Japan, I had intended to leave by tomorrow, but it doesn't look like I'm going anywhere at the moment, the first thing to do is try to get rid of some of my crap, like a fungus it just builds up, I can't remember buying all this shit, but I own it now, yet I can't carry it. I rescinded(a verb I'd never heard of until I had the chance to use it recently) my resignation at work, so I'll be there a while more. I have a ticket to Zurich on December 23rd, so that's the plan. I wanted to take an intensive Japanese course, so I went for a placement test on Thursday, and realised I suck arse, they were gonna put me back in beginners class, but there are no places there, think I'll just throw in the towel with this language, join the rest of the foreigners and just yell at people in English. I can read a fair bit, even understand some things when speaking, but I'm so slow with production, one strange word throws a spanner in the works. Impossible. This is sufficient, off to work.