Hey there,
I got my ISIC card yesterday. It's an international student insurance card, and it will help cover repatriation and other things that my regular health insurance won't. It also has lots of neat discounts for things.
Megan and I are looking for flights to Japan...she has points on Continental, so we're going to fly them most likely. Unfortunately, the layovers and flight stops are really weird; They either take you through Chicago or Denver, or have a 6-hr layover. Megan's best and cheapest actually would take us from Houston to NYC, and then an 11-hour layover to Japan. There's just not a good flight to be had around that time...so we'll just have to make do with what we can get.
I'm hesitant to even book a flight right now, as our application process is unknown at this time. We should already have our deadlines, application forms, and instructions, but we only have the deadline. It's not our Study Abroad Office's fault, either. Here's the lowdown:
The Kansai Gaidai website changed a couple months ago, and the application forms are no longer available on their usual page. Instead, the instructions there say to apply online using K-GENESYS. A google search of that acronym results in nothing relevant whatsoever.
Speaking with our SA Office, they said they should have received the login information already. She emailed them, and their reply was a letter saying to visit another website for the application.
That website doesn't exist anymore. I checked the cached version of Google, and it used to have everything. Now it's a "404" page. That's just great.
Kat, our SA person, is apparently not receiving info from Kansai Gaidai, so her advice was to fill out the forms for last semester and be ready to submit them upon confirmation that they'll even work at all.
That's wonderful news. Go ahead and spend time filling out something that might not even be the real application, in hopes that they'll have pity upon you and accept you anyway. Should we really be looking at flights when we're not even sure we can apply yet?
Argh, I say. This is frustrating. Hopefully some answers will come about soon.
Tyler
I got my ISIC card yesterday. It's an international student insurance card, and it will help cover repatriation and other things that my regular health insurance won't. It also has lots of neat discounts for things.
Megan and I are looking for flights to Japan...she has points on Continental, so we're going to fly them most likely. Unfortunately, the layovers and flight stops are really weird; They either take you through Chicago or Denver, or have a 6-hr layover. Megan's best and cheapest actually would take us from Houston to NYC, and then an 11-hour layover to Japan. There's just not a good flight to be had around that time...so we'll just have to make do with what we can get.
I'm hesitant to even book a flight right now, as our application process is unknown at this time. We should already have our deadlines, application forms, and instructions, but we only have the deadline. It's not our Study Abroad Office's fault, either. Here's the lowdown:
The Kansai Gaidai website changed a couple months ago, and the application forms are no longer available on their usual page. Instead, the instructions there say to apply online using K-GENESYS. A google search of that acronym results in nothing relevant whatsoever.
Speaking with our SA Office, they said they should have received the login information already. She emailed them, and their reply was a letter saying to visit another website for the application.
That website doesn't exist anymore. I checked the cached version of Google, and it used to have everything. Now it's a "404" page. That's just great.
Kat, our SA person, is apparently not receiving info from Kansai Gaidai, so her advice was to fill out the forms for last semester and be ready to submit them upon confirmation that they'll even work at all.
That's wonderful news. Go ahead and spend time filling out something that might not even be the real application, in hopes that they'll have pity upon you and accept you anyway. Should we really be looking at flights when we're not even sure we can apply yet?
Argh, I say. This is frustrating. Hopefully some answers will come about soon.
Tyler
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It's okay. I totally know how that is. Sam and I actually had to wait two months after the deadline before we even received PART of our needed paperwork. It was pretty much total chaos through most of the process. Don't worry about it too much, it could always be worse. ^_^