16 Days

In 16 days, I will be moving to Hirakata, Osaka, Japan to attend Kansai Gaidai University for at least one semester. To be honest, it doesn't even seem possible, and I keep thinking I'm going to be waking up to continue on with life in good old Victoria, BC, Canada. My plane tickets are booked, my student visa is in, most of my shopping is done, my hotel room is booked for pre-departure night, so I'd think with all of this it would at least hit me that I am returning to Japan. I even know what dormitory ("seminar house") I have been assigned to!
In 2004 I traveled to Japan for three weeks, on a high school trip, visiting most of the major tourist cities such as Tokyo, Osaka, and Hiroshima. At that point I had already been in love with the country for several years, and was still going through my major "anime phase." Even before leaving Japan I decided to return, and instead of a "Hi Mom!" my mother had the lovely greeting of "I want to go back!" the moment that I walked out the airport's arrival doors.
With all this, I keep wondering when it will sink in and why it hasn't yet but it probably will sink in the moment I get to the airport if I'm not completely exhausted. (I have to be at YVR around 4am- far too early to be considered human unless you happen to have chosen that as a side-effect of your job.) If  it doesn't then, I expect it to when I'm struggling to get from KIX airport to the dormitory. Which shall be interesting to say the least. Fortunately, I have a bit of Japanese linguistic knowledge after taking it for two years at college. However, that doesn't change the fact that with my expected jetlag I will be losing making my way, alone, from the airport to a dormitory that google maps doesn't even know exists due to arriving later than the pick-up time.