academics and adventure
school starts next week... boooo! i don't want to wake up early and do battle for parking!! i hate it. i've been going to school for 18 years straight... i want to be done with it already. i was thinking i should maybe double major in linguistics along with japanese. i only need 2 more classes to finish minoring in linguistics, but looking at the list of required classes i would only need 7 more classes to finish majoring in it. i don't know... it just seems like i might as well since that's not a lot. plus it would give me more units toward the 120 needed to graduate. i'm at 90 right now. after doing the math, if i double major it will give me 163 units. but then again i still have a shitload of japanese classes to take... i still need to take 30 units of upper-division japanese classes and 2 more basic classes, plus the upper-division writing course (i don't know why they make people take that even if they've passed the EWP test, which i have. it's bullshit).
god, i could've probably been done by next semester if i'd just stuck with linguistics as my major. oh the sacrifices you make for the things you love.
i saw anthony bourdain: no reservations today and he went to osaka and jesus christ it made me ache to go back to japan soooo freakin' badly. i never properly explored osaka and that show enlightened me to how much i missed out on. i definitely need to go to a hanshin tigers game and sports bar: screw the giants! my after graduation plans: apply for the jet programme and if i get lucky enough be be accepted i am definitely requesting to be placed in the kansai region... probably the kyoto prefecture. the people in the kansai region are just so much more enthusiastic and friendlier than people in tokyo... plus the atmosphere of the area is much more enjoyable long term... tokyo was a lot of fun and i definitely want to go back, but there were too many people and i don't think i could be comfortable there for an extended period of time. i was thinking yokohama would be a nice place to live, but i wanted to try working with jr. high or high school kids and you have to request by prefecture to do that... so i'm afraid i would end up in some little town in the kanagawa prefecture and not yokohama.
sorry, i worry about talking too much about japan to my friends... it's probably boring to keep hearing about it and i worry that they think i'm rubbing it in their faces. it was just such an incredible experience and it had such a profound impact on my life, as cliche as that sounds. i've been feeling like something is missing in me, and it's the people i left behind and the experiences i never got to have that is eating at me. there is such an intense thirst for adventure and exploration and travel in my soul right now and it's killing me that i can't quench it.
god, i could've probably been done by next semester if i'd just stuck with linguistics as my major. oh the sacrifices you make for the things you love.
i saw anthony bourdain: no reservations today and he went to osaka and jesus christ it made me ache to go back to japan soooo freakin' badly. i never properly explored osaka and that show enlightened me to how much i missed out on. i definitely need to go to a hanshin tigers game and sports bar: screw the giants! my after graduation plans: apply for the jet programme and if i get lucky enough be be accepted i am definitely requesting to be placed in the kansai region... probably the kyoto prefecture. the people in the kansai region are just so much more enthusiastic and friendlier than people in tokyo... plus the atmosphere of the area is much more enjoyable long term... tokyo was a lot of fun and i definitely want to go back, but there were too many people and i don't think i could be comfortable there for an extended period of time. i was thinking yokohama would be a nice place to live, but i wanted to try working with jr. high or high school kids and you have to request by prefecture to do that... so i'm afraid i would end up in some little town in the kanagawa prefecture and not yokohama.
sorry, i worry about talking too much about japan to my friends... it's probably boring to keep hearing about it and i worry that they think i'm rubbing it in their faces. it was just such an incredible experience and it had such a profound impact on my life, as cliche as that sounds. i've been feeling like something is missing in me, and it's the people i left behind and the experiences i never got to have that is eating at me. there is such an intense thirst for adventure and exploration and travel in my soul right now and it's killing me that i can't quench it.