If all goes well, I should get my permanent residency here in Japan in a couple more months; I'm just waiting on all the paperwork to get done (probably may-june).
I'm looking forward to eating fresh veg right off the farm, but that's not going to start super soon (well, from my own farm, anyway; some locals have hot-houses and are already producing various things).
I'm hoping to get my amateur radio license this year as well, but I don't really have much time to study (fulltime job + running a small farm business) so we'll see on that one.
Yeah that sounds awful. I am doing the full UK and they give you a reference booklet for the exam that covers a lot of the basic rules like that to crib from. Only thing I do not like with the UK exam is having to memorize the block diagrams for all the different transceivers, completely pointless IMO as who would troubleshoot or build a transceiver without an online reference in this day and age?