In all reality, I didn't really want to come to college. However, since I wasn't exactly sure what I was going to commit my life to, I ended up here anyway. At first, I was going to be a music major but when I discovered that I hated my music classes and loved my Japanese class, I changed my major to Language and Cultures with a Japanese concentration. So, I'm still not completely positive what I'm doing, but I have a general idea. I'm worried that I'll have picked the wrong thing and end up wasting the money and time in going to college. The only reason I'm here is to satisfy my mom since she won't let me run off to
I think I want to be a translator for the UN or for a private company. Being bilingual would have it's benefits no matter where I end up. I love Japanese. I love the culture, the food, the people, and just the general feel for the place. After college, I want to live there for a few years so I can be better at the language. I believe that the only way to truly become fluent in a language is to be in a place where it's the native language. Honestly, I'd rather just move there now and go to a language school, but it won't look good on my resume when I come back.
I don't really know how I feel about college in general. It's definitely better than high school. ^.^ Although, that's not really hard to achieve. I'd like to make a lot of friends, and reconnect with the friends I had when I used to live here. I'd like my life to be rooted in this area for awhile. I like Northridge way more than I ever liked Folsom, so it's wonderful to be back. Let's hope for finding a job, soon, and not failing any classes so my parents can't make me go back to Folsom. Talk about prison. (Sorry, that's not a very good joke.)
I totally get what you mean about not being sure about college. I did not really want to go to school either, but in my family it is kind of expected that I have to go to school. You seem like you have a good idea of what you want to do for your life, that’s really cool. Music is important to me, but I don’t know exactly what I want to do with that. That is really cool that you want to travel, and go learn japaneses in japan. I wish that I could pick up languages like you can, I’m so incapable of learning other languages. I agree with you that college is way better than high school, but I am not sure how I am actually liking school so far, I still feel like we just started. I would love to reconnect with some of my old friends that I have lost contact with that now go to school with us now.
ReplyDeleteThat’s really awesome that you found something you truly do love to do. Any language, other than Spanish would totally kick my behind, that’s for sure. I remember I gave French a try once, that didn’t end very well. I mean, I did learn a few words, but I wasn’t very committed to learning and mastering the language. I totally agree with you about living there, it would help you learn it so much quicker. Not to mention it’d probably be a really great life experience. Personally, I’d love to go there one day. Seems like a really chill place to visit. It’s awesome how you already know what you want to do, or at least have the idea. I think it works well when one is goal oriented, makes them stride for something better. Hopefully you do master Japanese, a task that would be pretty damn awesome if you ask me. Best of luck to you.
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