僕らの目指す未来 一つになる

[xanithofdragons]

Hello new friends from the Johnny's friending meme! It's nice to meet you all. ^_^ I never really know what to write for intro posts, so I'll try to cover some information that I think is important about me, do something I've been thinking about doing for a little while, and then open the floor to questions.

I recently graduated from college with a BA in Japanese Language and Culture and am currently working part-time as a bakery clerk in a grocery store. The kind of job I want to do in the future is pretty much anything where I can use Japanese in my work, maybe as a translator or an interpreter or just someone who works in a company that does business in both Japan and America or other English speaking countries and occasionally has reason to use her bilingual skills.

I studied abroad in Japan my junior year of college and left my heart in Japan, in that I fell even more in love with Japan. I want more than anything to have a reason to go back in Japan and live there at least another year. I'm applying to the JET program and maybe to one or two similar programs. As for my Japanese fluency, I passed the N2 of the JLPT and am going to take the N1 this year and haven't studied nearly enough yet.

I think that's pretty good as an introduction of where I am right now in my life. The other thing I want to do in this post is a list of how many Johnnys singles, albums, and DVDs I have, by group and then total. ^^ When I have multiple versions I'll include a count not including multiple versions of the same release.

A.B.C-Z
DVDs: 3
Please release an actual album, please, ebi!
Arashi
Singles: 13 (not including multiple versions, 8)
Albums: 5
DVDs: 7
Kanjani8
Albums: 1
Kis-My-Ft2
Singles: 16 (not including multiple versions, 8)
Albums: 3 (not including multiple versions, 2)
DVDs: 2
V6
Singles: 5 (not inclduing multiples versions, 3)
Albums: 5
DVDs: 1

Total
Singles: 34 (not including multiple versions: 19)
Albums: 13 (not including multiple versions: 12)
DVDs: 13

And that's just for Johnny's groups... And just the current count... xD I have other Jpop CDs, too, but not quite as many. ^^;

And lastly, I'll open the floor for questions. My introduction may have left out a lot of things you'd like to know, so ask me about what you want to hear about. Ask me any questions and as many questions as you like. New friends, friends who've been here longer. If I get enough questions, I'll make another post answering them. If I don't get many, I might just answer them in comments. Possible topics include (but are not limited to) my favorite x, how I got into x hobby or activity, what other hobbies I have, personal questions, stories from Japan (do not expect me to be a good story-teller), whatever you can think of. If it's something really personal, I might post about it in a locked post, but I definitely want to know what you all want to know about me.

Comments

[faded-lace.livejournal.com]

Well, I think if you play that off in enthusiasm for working with kids in the future, it will be okay. I basically feel like reg flags go up when it seems like the person isn't focused on the job of working with kids and instead is just focused on Japan at large (even if they really are looking forward to the teaching bit and just didn't say it enough in the SoP).

Yeah, in the past three application pools (so the 2011, 2012, and 2013 intakes) I've known five people who got in and three people who didn't, so it's not exactly a hugely wide sample pool. XD; But in my experience, what they want is something pretty straightforward and honest. I hate showing my writing to people, too, but I think having someone who was already in JET and someone who was in a hiring position for an education job really helped mine a lot. Good luck! ^^; I'd be happy to read it if you wanted.

[xanithofdragons.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for all your advice. I'm going to pm you with the text of my statement of purpose. I'll probably also ask my mom to look over it since she works in education.

[faded-lace.livejournal.com]

No problem! Seriously, feel free to ask me anything. And I'll take a look at your statement of purpose when I get a moment! Do you have a deadline? I'd like to really take the time to look at it next to the JET programme website and stuff like that, so I don't want to rush, but if you need it by like tomorrow or something, I can just give it a quick read-over, too. ^^

[xanithofdragons.livejournal.com]

I'm planning to mail it out Thursday (I'm still waiting on one letter of recommendation that I should get tomorrow.) Yeah, I'm sorry that I'm not giving you a lot of time. I was hoping to have a draft done earlier, but I know myself and I know it takes me longer to write things than it probably should. ^^;

[faded-lace.livejournal.com]

Oh wow XD Okay then, I'll try to look over it either today or tomorrow. Hopefully I can still give some helpful feedback. ^^;