Nightmare!

Revelling in finishing the course on Friday didn't last long.

Up early on Saturday, got to the airport without any problems - and the taxi driver actually ran his meter, so from central Bangkok to the airport only cost just over 200 baht, got away with 30+ kg of luggage...dragged my arse to the departure lounge....

....and then found out my flight was 45 minutes delayed. 

I was already thinking that I would be pushing my luck because I only had just over an hour and a half to transfer in KL in the first place....with this delay, I would only have had 30 minutes.

I asked the woman if I'd make it and she was all like,  "Sure, sure you have plenty of time".

30 minutes for a transfer is NOT plenty of time. Especially at an airport which only opened 2 days ago. 

Then the flight was an hour delayed. I knew I wasn't going to make my connecting flight, but the woman was there, telling us all we'd still make the flight. If she had just been honest and admitted that we didn't have a chance in hell of making the flight, I would've just booked a direct flight with another airline to make sure that I could arrive back to Tokyo last night.

Bitch.

So we arrived at the new Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (KLIA). It's stunning. Like a mall. And it was about time they closed down that piece of shit LCCT terminal! Problem? It was absolutely AGES to the connecting gates. It took over 5 minutes to get there and when I arrived, my gate was already closed. So I had to go through immigration, pick up my luggage and then head up to the service counter to get another ticket.

My luggage never arrived. I couldn't get another flight yesterday. The only airline that was flying to Haneda was Malaysian Airlines. 

Let me. LOL!

In all my years of travelling, I have never missed a flight and I've never lost my luggage. What I've done to deserve both happening on the same day right after finishing a DELTA Module 2 course is beyond me. 

After 3 hours of loafing around and barging my way through restricted areas, I managed to find my suitcase. Some consolation. And then I was taken to this hotel......which doesn't serve alcohol. I could deal with the shitty choices for dinner and breakfast and even with the old bathroom....but after the day I'd had yesterday, I was just desperate for a rum and coke. =( If I had been in downtown KL, it wouldn't have been so bad, but I was in some tiny little town in the arse end of nowhere.....and with very few women about. 

So I'm flying out this afternoon at the same time I was supposed to be flying yesterday. That wouldn't be so bad if I could've been picked up at the airport like I would've been able to had I arrived last night. Now I have to lug more than 50kg of luggage that I can barely lift back on the trains. And we all know what Japanese people are like for lending a hand.

I'm dreading it.

Plus, I won't get that one day that I so desperately needed to wind down. I'm going to have gone from 2 months of intensive stress straight back into work. No time to process anything in between. No time to relax before I have to juggle work and DELTA Modules 1 and 3 all at the same time.

**sigh**

I just hope the flight isn't delayed today - if it is I'm going to miss all the last trains when I get back to Tokyo.

Pllleeeeaaasssseeee go smoothly. 

xoxo

2 more days!

And it's that time again.

I started packing tonight. 

2 months.

It feels weird to be packing again. I can't decide if it feels like I've been here for ages, or a really short time. It's just been non-stop go, go, go, that it's all kind of turned into a blur.

I also have mixed feelings about leaving. Naturally I'm going to miss the weather, the heat, the pool, the food and some of the people that I've met here. And I can't honestly say that I'm looking forward to getting back to work. But given that the Thai PM was ousted today and the demonstrations have gotten bigger and potentially more dangerous, it seems like a good time to get out before I could potentially get caught up in something. We got warned today about staying vigilant, so I feel kinda glad to be leaving because of that. Also I wanna get back to my house. My kitchen. My WARDROBE. My SHOES!!! And of course, get back to someone very special. =)

It's just a shame that I'm going to be leaving pretty much as white as when I left! And that really sucks - being in Thailand and not having time to hit the beach. Especially when I'm going to be back in the concrete jungle for the next however many months before I'll get the chance to go on holiday. 

Only one more month of stress to go and then the DELTA will be all finished.

One more month.

One final push.

xoxo

Home Stretch!

I can't believe I'm nearly done.

The last 2 months have literally disappeared before my eyes.

So, so exhausted. 

I need a week off to recover when I get back to Tokyo....unfortunately, that's not going to happen! As well as jumping straight back into work, I need to study for an exam and write a dissertation along with designing a minimum of a 20 hour course.

No rest for the wicked!

But everything has been worth it. I can't believe how much I've learnt and it's interesting to watch developments and changes in my teaching - especially since so many beliefs I held before I came here have pretty much been shattered and replaced with a good, strong sense of reality.

But it's all about tomorrow. The externally assessed lesson.

The assessor is flying in from Hong Kong and I'm first up. I never do well when it comes to names being pulled out of a hat! LOL!

But I've played it safe - I'm teaching grammar. Past modals of deduction. 

I've taught this grammatical structure at least 6 or 7 times before. Successfully. I am taking a bit of a gamble and trying something different, but I'm hoping that everything will go smoothly and my nerves won't get the better of me. 

After tomorrow, I'll have one evaluation, one more essay and one more lesson to go and then my workload will be DONE! For Module 2 anyway! LOL! It's hard to remember that when I get back to Japan it's not over! Still 2 more modules to go. >_<

I'd do anything for a week at the beach!

xoxo