Hmmm, I should really finish this.

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Let's try this again, now that the browser here at Brandeis University flipped and destroyed my entire post.

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[Tangent: Somehow, I don't want to eat an ant...]

Two weeks ago, DA found out that she had been accepted into Kansai Gaikokugo Daigaku, or Kansai Gaidai for short. She would be studying in Japan for four months, beginning at the start of September and going until Christmas. This was following various complications with the application-- but let's not get ahead of ourselves here, hmm?

The Tale of the Application
     DA's application to Kansai Gaikokugo Daigaku (Kansai Foreign Language University) was submitted in late March. They said that it would take about three weeks to process and determine if she'd be accepted. That was fine.
     Six weeks later, she finally contacted them via the education abroad advisor for the region. They wrote back saying that they were concerned: there were almost no psychiatric services there in Japanese, much less in English, and could she please have her prescribing doctor fax them a document stating whether or not she'd be capable of making the trip. Well, bugger. Why couldn't they have told her this in advance?¡Qué menduokusai!
     Another week or two went by, and finally, everything was completely.
     More time went by.
     Finally, an acceptance e-mail arrived.