Exchanging japanese yen currency

Robot chicken.

It's raining,

raining again.

Oh look, I Hate Everything channel's back.

It actually got deleted from YouTube a few

days ago, and there's like all this big

fuss because no one knew why YouTube

suspended his channel.

So looks like they've

unsuspended it. That's nice. They

shouldn't have suspended it in the first

place. Idiots.

I think it stopped raining.

It's still raining a tiny bit. It's like

drizzling down. Oh, so today

I got my Japanese yen, as you saw in the

beginning of the video. I bought £1,000

worth of yen, which came to about

¥158,000. Should last me about 2

months. Depends, depends if I,

if I don't go out. But then what's the

point in going to Japan if I don't go out?

Is it starting to rain again? No, it's

just the water from the tree falling down

because the wind was blowing. Anyway, so

yeah, if I make friends and we go out

eating and doing stuff every day, then

£1,000 isn't gonna last 2 months.

It's cold. But if I'm careful with

stuff like food, then it might last. I

don't know, I can always take out more

cash from the ATM, but it's gonna be more

expensive. And I don't know if the price,

the value of yen, is gonna go down or up.

When I bought my yen, I got an exchange

rate of 157 yen Uh, for £1,

but now it's gone up to ¥159 for each

pound. So if I bought it today instead of

last week, I could have gotten about £10

to £15 more. It's not that much really

when you consider it. Uh, £10 out of

£1,000, you're not really saving that much

money. And I'm not sure

if the yen is gonna go up or down this

year. It's actually gone down quite a bit.

Last year it was ¥180 for a pound, now

it's gone down to ¥167. So I thought it'd

be a better idea to buy the yen now before

it goes down further. So I've

got £1,000 worth of Japanese yen in my

room. Still not quite sure when I'm gonna

go, maybe April. That's the good thing

about buying the yen. I can just buy it,

put it in my room, and I don't have to

decide when I want to go right, right

away. But if I bought the airplane ticket

now, then there's not really any

flexibility. I'd have to go when I book

the ticket. So I might go in April.

Depends how much savings I can get.

I don't know. I'm not feeling too

enthusiastic about Japan right now.

I keep remembering about the last time I

went, and I was kind of bored, and I

wasn't really interested in meeting new

I don't know why I had that kind of

attitude back then. I kind of feel like—

I just spat. I kind of feel like I feel

like I'm in a different mindset, have a

different attitude right now. I don't

know, I just feel really, really bored,

and it's been over a year and haven't

really met any new people, and I just

kind of want to get out there in the

world, you know, meet people, see what

happens, try something new. Well, it's not

really new because I've done it before,

so this time I I kind of want to do things

differently from last time. I want to

become more, more friendly, more sociable,

try and talk to people more, try and start

conversations myself instead of waiting

for people to come to me and start a

conversation.

So we'll see how it goes. We've got the

English teaching training course on the

weekend that I have to do. I actually

signed up for this course, it's called

TEFL TEFL, Teach English as a Foreign

Language course, and it's only 2 days over

the weekend. They teach you how to teach

English, basically, and at the end of it

you get a TEFL certificate. So I could

say that I'm certified in teaching

English, which might come in— I just spat

again. I don't know if you can actually

see the spit coming out. I guess if you

can't see it, then that shouldn't really

say. So yeah, I can say that I'm certified

in English teaching if I do some teaching

when I'm out there. I actually got a 30%

discount off the course, so it only came

to £140. But that means I have no money

right now. I have about £50 in my bank

account. Well, I've actually got £100

cash, and I should get an extra £210 when

I get my camera refund money back. And

then I should get £320 a month from

Universal Credit. This should bump me up

to £1,100 by the time it gets to April.

So after buying my plane ticket, I'd

probably have about £600 in total left. I

don't know if it's enough. I might have to

postpone Japan until autumn because I'm

not going in summer. It's boiling hot in

summer and humid and horrible.

So I might have to postpone it all the way

to autumn. It depends if I can get

a job. I'm not really too hopeful about

that. There just aren't any jobs anywhere

that I can do. There's just lots of

teaching jobs, primary school teaching

jobs, and lorry drivers and executive

managers and experienced cleaners who have

their own transport. I just don't qualify

for any of the jobs that are going. It

doesn't help that I'm living in the

countryside and I don't have my own

transport.

So I don't know, I might have to go to a

dormitory to save on money. It's going to

be rough. It depends on the kind of people

who are in the dormitory. If they're quiet

people, then that would be great, but

sometimes you just get like really fat

noisy people who snore and stink.

That would just be terrible. That happened

last time I went to Japan, but I was only

in the dormitory for about 4 days, so it

was bearable. I don't think I could bear

it for a month.

And every time that fat guy moved in his

bed, it like shook the whole bunk bed. I

was in the top bunk, he was in the bottom,

and I could hear him, every breath he

took. You could hear like, it's like

sleeping with Darth Vader. It's probably a

smoker. But you can save so much money.

It costs about £150 for the dormitory room

and £250, £270 for the single room.

So it's tempting. If I can put up with it,

it'd be a good idea.

I just finished my run and came in, and

now it started raining again, so pretty

good timing. I just

heard a strange noise. Hope it wasn't

Toffee being sick. Toffee, were you sick?

Where is it?

Oh, for fuck's sake,

we found it.

Oh, stinks.

It stinks.

Whoa, I don't want to clean it up.

All done.