[vulgarshudder]

3 years ago I done a year exchange at a certain elite tokyo womens university.

I had much fun. Although I did saboru many classes, fucking off doing better things with my time cos nearlly the entire student body was comprised of koreans and chinese who were much better than me at Japanese since I had only been studying for a year at that point. And at my particular university that was OK since they didn't seem to care that much. The attitude and course will vary alot depending on the university.

But that's ok, cos I think I learnt more outside the school anyway.

if you really want to get good at japanese, I'd advise going somewhere with not a big foriegn student population, or at least one not comprised of americans and europeans. Because I noticed the people that went to unviersities like that tended to hang around with other english speaking students and did not improve so much.

So yeah it was great, and I'm back now in Japan with a lazy buggers job and wasting my life -- awesome!!