関西弁
標準語って関西弁よりもっと米国に住んでいる生徒に使われます。そうやから、関西弁ってあんま知っておりへん。日本語の学生がいろいろな方言を知っておるのはほんまに大切って思います。これから、日本におってる間に、いくらのブログは日本語で書かれるかもなぁ。
ほな、しんどいやから、寝る！おやすみ！
Thursday, February 28, 2013
あと１６日！
標準語って関西弁よりもっと米国に住んでいる生徒に使われます。そうやから、関西弁ってあんま知っておりへん。日本語の学生がいろいろな方言を知っておるのはほんまに大切って思います。これから、日本におってる間に、いくらのブログは日本語で書かれるかもなぁ。
ほな、しんどいやから、寝る！おやすみ！
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Time Flies
Only seventeen more days here in Oklahoma. I can't believe time has flown by this fast. It seems like yesterday that my friends in AFS Japan had posted something along the lines of "250 days until we leave," and now it it February 27th, 2013 and seventeen days away from my departure. I can remember back in August of 2012, looking at my balance of $13,200 on my application and wondering how in the world was I going to manage a feat of 13K in seven months. Well, with the help of generous donors and Global Leaders, I have chipped that mass down to $0.00.
As of today, I'm officially going to Japan. My domestic ticket is booked, my yellow AFS luggage tags came in the mail last week, and I have my host family and host school information. I will be living in Ibaraki City, in Osaka prefecture. I have a host mom, dad, grandmother, and two host sisters who are fifteen and sixteen. My school is Mishima High School, and I start April first. I can't even begin to express how ecstatic I am. This has been a dream of mine since I was a little child of ten. If things had not worked out the way they have, and I was not able to go to Japan, I would have had no qualms about getting wonderfully lost in another country through AFS. It would have been quite an adventure to have gone to, say, Turkey or Norway. However, my ticket is booked for Japan this year, and I'm going to delve into their culture like a fish whose been out of water for far too long, and it has been.
What has really surprised me is that by going to Japan, I would learn about other cultures like French, German, Norwegian, Dutch, and Paraguayan. These are just some of the people who are embarking on the Japan exchange with me. I've made friends with people around the world just by wanting to go to one place in particular. Now I have every intention of traveling the world with these friends. I hope that in the next twenty years, I can be sitting at a little cafe in Paris with my French friends, or a museum in Germany with my German friends, or watching the snow fall outside of a warm house in Norway. Perhaps I will be living in Japan, and my American friends may join me. We will be reminiscing of our life in Japan as a group of brave and adventurous teens who were ready to brace the world.
There's a quote that I've heard since elementary school, "Be the change you want to see in the world," and at that time I didn't have an inkling as to what I could do to live up to that quote. How could a little ten year old me do anything to have an impact on this world? Six years later, and as of March 20th, I'll be putting that phrase to the test. With the ample opportunity that AFS USA has given, and with more than 175 young individuals my age from all around the world, we'll be that change.
As of today, I'm officially going to Japan. My domestic ticket is booked, my yellow AFS luggage tags came in the mail last week, and I have my host family and host school information. I will be living in Ibaraki City, in Osaka prefecture. I have a host mom, dad, grandmother, and two host sisters who are fifteen and sixteen. My school is Mishima High School, and I start April first. I can't even begin to express how ecstatic I am. This has been a dream of mine since I was a little child of ten. If things had not worked out the way they have, and I was not able to go to Japan, I would have had no qualms about getting wonderfully lost in another country through AFS. It would have been quite an adventure to have gone to, say, Turkey or Norway. However, my ticket is booked for Japan this year, and I'm going to delve into their culture like a fish whose been out of water for far too long, and it has been.
What has really surprised me is that by going to Japan, I would learn about other cultures like French, German, Norwegian, Dutch, and Paraguayan. These are just some of the people who are embarking on the Japan exchange with me. I've made friends with people around the world just by wanting to go to one place in particular. Now I have every intention of traveling the world with these friends. I hope that in the next twenty years, I can be sitting at a little cafe in Paris with my French friends, or a museum in Germany with my German friends, or watching the snow fall outside of a warm house in Norway. Perhaps I will be living in Japan, and my American friends may join me. We will be reminiscing of our life in Japan as a group of brave and adventurous teens who were ready to brace the world.
There's a quote that I've heard since elementary school, "Be the change you want to see in the world," and at that time I didn't have an inkling as to what I could do to live up to that quote. How could a little ten year old me do anything to have an impact on this world? Six years later, and as of March 20th, I'll be putting that phrase to the test. With the ample opportunity that AFS USA has given, and with more than 175 young individuals my age from all around the world, we'll be that change.
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