Saturday, April 11, 2009

what I want to do...pt.2

I was looking at the old blogs, and reading "what I want to do..", I realized I have done a few things in the list so I want to update and add a few more things to the list.


1. have a very short hair (soon) DONE!
2. get a teaching certificate for a high school English teacher (高校教員免許) and work in a high school in Japan as an English teacher
--> Got accepted to college so getting close to achieving this!

3. get lots of experience of teaching English (and Japanese) --
> Half done cuz I'm teaching Japanese now!

4. go to a grad school someday to study 'teaching Japanese/English as a second language' or education or linguistics (unlikely)
5. have a life without a car in Japan and travel by train
6. OHANAMI(お 花見; it's a Japanese traditional outside-party to enjoy seeing cherryblossoms while eating and drinking)!! belive or not, i have never done ohanami even though i was born and grew up in Japan for about 20 yrs..... DONE! (in US)
7. go to see my best friend in Poland
--> Soon? this summer!?

8. read all of Haruki Murakami's books
--> I've probably read most of them!
9. take Eiken 1kyu (the highest level of the official English proficiency test, which is the most common English test in Japan)
--> I'm (kinda..) studying for it...

10. read lots of books about Japanese education (esp. problems regarding Japanese education. e.g., bullying-いじめ, Compulsory Education-義務教育, entrance examination-受験, etc..)
--> I don't have a good access to those kinds of books... I will try to read them when I get back to Japan..
11. learn another language (Italian?, Polish?, I don't know yet...)
12. go to Okinawa-沖縄 and maybe live there for a few years if I like it there
--> maybe not.. but still want to travel there when I go back to Japan.

13. travel to Indo-Chinese Peninsula (Vietnam, Thailand, Syngapore...)
14. be a cyborg like the main character (素子) in Ghost in the Shell (攻殻機動隊) and jump from roof to roof, have a nice voluptuous body, and never get old
--> probably will never be able to achieve this in my lifetime... sad...(-_-;)

new things I want to do..:
15. go to many places by cycling in Japan (and hopefully lose some weight and get in a good shape..)
16. brush up my English (especially increase the vocabulary)
17. travel all over Japan (especially the country side)
18. go SUPER green; always keep "3R" in mind, "Reduce", "Reuse", and "Recycle"


2 comments:

Colm said...

My girlfriend and I love the books of Haruki Murakami. My girlfried loves "Kafka on the Shore" though I have a soft spot for "Sputnik Sweetheart". I suppose you are familiar with Natsuo Kirino. She is fairly good too. At the moment I am reading "Out".

Sayonara!

Kaori said...

It's probably too late to reply to your comment, but thank you for making a comment on my blog!
I like "Sputnik Sweetheart" too. It's my second favorite. I read "Kafka on the Shore", but I did not really understand the strange dream-like scene with the two soldiers at the end... My first favorite is "Norwegian Woods". I'm re-reading it again, and it's still sooo good! The movie is coming out this year, but I believe no movie will be better than the book!

Arigato!