I have been informed by the friendly staff of the international centre that I do not exist. There is no such student as Daniel Price. There is however a Danikoru.
Basically, I made a mistake when I was filling in my application form for Himeji Dokkyo- I spelt my name incorrectly in katakana (Japanese characters), but spelt it right in English on the same form. The logical plan of action is to correct the mistake – that’s why there is such a thing as administration; if things didn’t change and mistakes weren’t made there would be no need to administer anything.
In Himeji however mistakes do not get corrected. I first noticed this when I received my homestay contract. Naturally, as I didn’t want to commit fraud, I corrected my name before signing it.
A month later, they say there is a problem with my name on the contract and that they would print out new ones – which sounds good – but the problem they had was that there was no such student as Daniel Price. So I was forced to sign a contract with someone elses name on which as far as I’m concerned isn’t legally binding in any way, shape or form.
I haven’t been escorted off university grounds for tresspassing yet however.
