Sunday, April 19, 2015
#453: Japan etc
After 2 months of a boring data entry job, I finally went to Japan for my grad trip~~~!!First time overseas without any adults accompanying and it was really fun hahaha.
All the pretty sakura~~~
I just realised, the first time was in autumn, the second in summer and this time I went in spring~~ xD
I wanna go in winter someday too~
If it's Japan then I can find my way around without much help xD
Well, with the help of signs and the train app xD
Raided the giant Kino in Shinjuku and I think I have more than enough books to read now xD
My Japanese reading stamina and speed still isn't that good too orz.
It's tough to continue my Japanese self-study when I can already communicate with Japanese people pretty well orz. Haven't done proper studying ever since I passed N2 last July :/
This trip really made my yearning for Japan much, much worse goodness. Sigh.
It'll be nice to travel there on my own~
Also made me really wish I could do university there... though idk if that's really the best choice.
Definitely gonna try for post-graduate in Japan which was what my JCS teacher suggested anw...
Air ticket + Accomodation (Airbnb) + Insurance + JR Pass (transport) + Wifi cost about $2000 for 2 weeks... but that's bc we went to quite a few places using the shinkansen...
Probably $2000 including food if you stay in one area.
Haah I really want to go regularly T_T
I want to go again in June already ahhh. There's 2 lives I wanna watch too :((
If I stayed in Japan I can't imagine how much I'll be spending on lives omg I wanna go to all the lives :(((
Also karaoke hahahaha.
In year 5 my mentor once asked me, "Do you like Japan to the point that you wish you were born there?", and my answer was no at that time.
Now, it's inching towards yes :/
My interests are so completely Japanese that a lot of my friends are Japanese and you see what that leads to irl ._.
Haah but if I go in June, I have only like 1.5 months to earn $$ for the trip, and there's a lot of uni stuff going on in July so in the end I'm gonna end up working for only ~4 months during this 8 month break lol. I expected to be working for most of the break lol.
Also received quite a bit of uni stuff from NUS recently... uni is so complicated ugh.
Srsly what is up with the course bidding system.
I'm actually excited for uni, like I can finally study what I'm really interested in lol. Though it's also worrying with the completely new environment.