I am such a dumbass. Such. A. Dumbass. But thankfully I’m a lucky dumbass.
I have been putting off buying the flight-tickets to Sapporo. But anyway, I had been planning to buy the tickets on 16th, 17th or 18th of September (elokuu). However, today when I was talking to my friend at work and told him I’m leaving ”elokuussa” he was – strangely enough – really weirded out. He told me that when he had been in Japan for exchange, they had arrived in syyskuu.
So I did some research.
Apparently, even though I have a certificate of bilingualism for English, I still can’t tell months apart. Months. I literally cannot do something an elementary school-kid can do. Shame! Utter humiliation! Sometimes I can do English very well, and sometimes it’s just nope.
Just FYI, September doesn’t mean elokuu, it’s syyskuu. And elokuu, in English, is August not September. So, had I bought the tickets a few weeks ago as I had planned, I would have had bought them a month too early.
Well, my troubles don’t really end here either. First of all, I don’t know (or remember) all vaccinations I have been so graciously given and there aren’t really any markings about those either because apparently digital data-banks weren’t a thing in hospitals until a few years ago. And I need to know those because I need vaccination against Japanese brain-fever (I don’t know about you guys but I think it sounds delightful! …should definitely get the vaccination, asap).
Secondly, I didn’t pass my swedish exam (fucking-fuckity-fuck) even though it was my third time trying (I-am-a-useless-human-being-i’m-so-sorry).
Now, this means I have to take the test after I came back from Japan and I think we can all guess how that’s going to work out. So as an applaud for myself I award myself with this golden star:
