Osu! ^_^< It's been a long time since I actually blogged here (I mostly use this as a place to post my Manga and illustrations). But anyway, to the point; I'm a senoir in High School and am trying -very confusedly ... is that a word?- to develop some sort of college plan before I graduate and have to be a moneyless box Hobo <.<;;  But among my few skills is about 3 years slow years of self-taught Japanese. I know my basic grammer, my Kana and, about 150 Kanji... and that's about it (hey, I said slow, didn't I?) Anyways, sometime in my upcoming student life, I want to foreign exchange study in Japan... And well, I kinda don't know how. >.>;; I understand that some colleges want a Japanese Language Proficiency Test score, and that usually requires 300 accredited hours of language study (Yikes!, Epic!!) and is about 3 hours long (Info obtained at http://www.meiji.ac.jp/cip/english/exchange_student/recent.html , Meiji University's web site). but I don't know anything else about it (Like how to qualify, or where to take it). .... ... ... The whole point is; if you have or are going to study aboad in Japan, please tell me how and where you were able to gain that opportunity.