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I am 30 and during my recent holidays fell in love with Japan.

I have 5,000,000yen saved up. I want to study Japanese, but I don't know what sort of course would be best.

Many schools listed in sites like http://www.nisshinkyo.org/ are College Preparation courses - is this the sort of course I should apply for? Would I be too old to be accepted?

Or should I apply at a different sort of school?

Are there intensive, or some other business focused courses I should investigate?

I want to study somewhere not to far from Yamaguchi prefecture (Hiroshima or Fukuoka would be good).

I was wondering which Australian state pays the most taxes?

Which state has the highest and lowest Stamp Duty?

Which states has the most concessions for Capital Gains? Which state makes you pay the most for Capital Gains?

Which state has the lower median rates?

Which state pays lower Car Registration, and Licensing fees?

I am absent in my own dreams.

When I fall asleep and dream, I do not interact directly with the characters in my dreams. It is sort of like being an audience in a play, the characters do not notice me, and I can watch and listen to them as they move through a story (sometimes I can even watch more than one group of characters at a time).

Often I am conscious that the story changes because of me; I will think of an interesting direction and the plot will start to reflect it (or the story may just change).

I am wondering if anyone else has dreams in which they are simply an audience?

Is anything dreaming like this suggests?

How do you interpret a dream you are not in?

I know there must be some pretty big reasons for not having a Constitutional Monarchy in places like India, South Africa, America, Ireland and other Colonies that use to be part of the British Empire.

But what specifically are the reasons for not wanting a Monarchy?

And does anyone know why it is only Australia, Canada, New Zealand of all Commonwealth Nations that still have the Queen as their Head of State? Did she not want to be in charge of the poorer nations or something simple like that?

How big is my carbon footprint? How much carbon do I produce a year, month and week?

I use an average 2.5kWh electricty a day,

drive approx 5,000km a year with a 2.0ltr petrol engine car,

fly between Perth to Sydney or Melbourne approx six times a year,

and I put out my rubbish bin (140ltr) about once a month

have almost 200m2 of lawn/garden that is mowed about once a month (about 5ltr petrol used a year by the mower),

and I dont actually know my daily water usage as I don't get a bill.