A chance to go to Japan for 100 days AND GET PAID TO DO IT.A chance to go to Japan for 100 days and BE PAID TO WRITE ABOUT IT.
This is literally like a once in a lifetime, dream-come-true sorta thing.
"On 24th December 2011, after completing its mission of travelling 100 days and reporting from all over Japan, the Travel Volunteer will transform into Santa Claus and deliver Christmas Presents to displaced children in the Tohoku region!" This is tailor-made for me. I've always wanted to be Santa Claus when I grow up. Santa Claus in Japan? That's so perfect it's scary!
Getting paid to blog... Is this real-life?
I'm filling out the application form now.
I filled out a good portion of the form, but I'm holding off on submitting it because I wanna make sure it's PERFECT. This is a completely sublime chance and I'm not about to let it slide through my fingers thanks to some poor grammar or an incomplete thought. I'm goin' at this samurai style. One slice, one kill. Everything in my entire being. Burning myself up completely and leaving no trace.
I'm going to list all of my Japan related hopes and dreams and put them into the appropriate section on the application. I hope they don't think me too greedy... ^_____^ I have a lot I want to do!
大和魂
Why I should be chosen.
I'm extremely personable. Charismatic, even. I love meeting new people and I get along with just about everyone I meet. Going to Japan has been a long-standing goal of mine and I've been completely engrossed in Japanese culture for well over a decade. I love absolutely everything about Japan. I even hope to pick up more of the language, and I anticipate I'll be able to do so relatively quickly/easily thanks to being fully immersed in Japanese-speaking society. Such a beautiful language. Both spoken and written. Name something Japanese-related, and I'll bet you that I love it. Samurai, sushi/sashimi, anime, video games, martial arts, Nintendo, Ghibli, robots, Zen, manga.
I love eating, working out, , watching movies, playing videogames, photography, writing, blogging, drawing, learning, and of course, learning about Japan!
Another trait that makes me a good candidate for selection is that I regularly maintain a blog now anyway, so it would be an extremely easy transition. I love to write! Especially on the internet! Some other pros to choosing me: I have a job that would understand. I have a safe place for my belongings during the 100 days.
I can't say it enough times and enough ways: This would literally be like a dream coming true for me.
In addition to all of that my birthday is actually on Christmas Eve and I've always wanted to be Santa Claus! I'm rather tall/large and I can grow a beard quickly, we might only need to dye it! To the kids I'll be the real thing!
Like I've said, THIS literally would be my dream coming true. Getting to go to Japan for free is one thing, but for 100 days and essentially being paid to blog about it? Absolutely perfect. I've also always had what I thought was an unrealistic dream: to one day become Santa Claus. However, seeing as how as part of the package is transforming into Santa and handing out presents to the kids, this too will come true and combine with being in Japan to be simply sublime.
The only way this could fulfill even more of my dreams is if I also learned how to control my ki and fly and then went Super Saiyan! Haha!
Here is a huge list of things that any one of would fulfill the function of my dream. I'd be happy with absolutely any single one.
- Simply going to Japan.
- Finding, acquiring and learning to wield an authentic Katana.
- Dressing in full Samurai regalia and getting pictures of it.
- Kendo
- Sumo
- Zazen
- Visit and sit in a real authentic onsen, get to wear (and maybe keep) a yukata and zori during/afterward.
- Meeting Akira Toriyama
- Have him draw me DBZ style, get to keep it.
- Eating superfresh sushi and sashimi, and maybe learning how to slice some.- Meeting and getting a picture with Shigeru Miyamato.
- Miyazaki Museum
- Pictures/memorabilia
- Meeting and getting a picture with Miyazaki.
- Visit Pokemon Center
- Pictures/video of the legendary Shibuya crossing.
- Akihabra/Harajuku
- Osaka
- Tokyo
- Obtain authentic kimono and hakama. Tabi too.
- Picture of me with Mt. Fuji in background and a cherry blossom tree.
- Meeting and getting a picture with Kentaro Miura.
- I would like to retrace all or at least a portion of Basho's trail.
- Visit the grave sites of Akira Kurosawa and Shunryu Suzuki. (If located in Japan.)
- Meeting and getting a picture with Utada Hikaru.
- Learning how samurais and monks shaved their heads. Getting one.
- I would like to impress at least one local with pronunciation.
- Practice a character/phrase with calligraphy.
- Green tea ceremony.
- Aikido.
- A holographic Pikachu a la Hatsune Miku. (That one's for free, Miyamoto-sama. ;D)
- It would be an honor to run the Ninja Warrior course.
- I would like to be on a wacky Japanese game show.
- DRESSING UP AS SANTA CLAUS AND GIVE GIFTS TO ALL THE CHILDREN!!
- Learning to fly!
- Going Super Saiyan!
There is so much I want to do in Japan that this list could go on forever and ever. So I'll summarize again: simply being in Japan will be a dream come true.
I thank you for taking the time to review my application and I thank you in advance if I am chosen, I promise I will do my very best at exemplifying why everyone should go to Japan. It will sincerely be my pleasure. It already is.
