Japan and It's unbearably strong attraction
30/1/2010 - 02:36:08 - 0 comments - By D47
Honestly I don't know exactly why I love Japan so much, maybe it's just simply because it's so foreign and peculiar that it breeds fascination in people like me. Maybe it's that I glorify it too much based on the ridiculous amount of anime I watch. Maybe it is genuinely 1000x more awesome than Australia. I'll never know until I go there.

For a few years now I've been intensely absorbed in Japan and it's language that it's distracted me from my regular studies and makes me want to swap degrees. Just recently I've craved to just go there as soon as possible, verging on a spontaneous plane ticket purchase that I so desire.

I'm getting my passport renewed and plan to do another bachelor degree after my current Bachelor of IT and apply to visit Japan as an exchange student for a year. According to my universities website I will need a GPA > 5.5 to be eligible for some lucrative scholarship. That will be a huge motivator for me and I'm sure I will achieve much higher than that when the time comes just out of sheer excitement. I'm not very proactive with my current course because I don't really know what awaits me at it's completion and if it's all that exciting. Though I definitely do want to be a programmer in a tiny cubicle in the middle of a giant tower surrounded by busy people.

Apparently my oh so kind government allows me to take seven years worth of full time study and pay for it in the future when I'm allowed to cash in my monopoly money. This gives me two bachelors! but it doesn't count for anything higher, only undergraduate degrees.

My itching ambition to live in Japan was spawned by nothing in particular, it's probably totally arbitrary. I wouldn't be surprised to know that Japan just happened to be a foreign country I took interest in from a group of so many other countries that I could love just as much. I find myself getting so bored of the mundaneity (should be a real word) of every day Australian life and reading countless Japan travel journals written by other travelers.

When I go to Japan I'm definitely going to write a journal, I'll post it all right here on this website and it will contain many pictures and countless comments about glorified quirks of Japan and it's people. I'll even throw in the obligatory "Back at home you just don't see this.". Just watch me!
 
 
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