miss koco's questions
1) What do you plan to do, once you return to NYC, with the next year of your life? As far as a job, I'm trying for Christies art auction house at the moment. We'll see how that turns out. Other than that, I'd like to (finally) get my driver's license. And I just want to BE for awhile - Enjoy NY, spend time with family, make new friends and connect with old ones. Maybe travel a bit around the US visiting people. I would also like to do something intellectual for a bit (I feel like my brain is mush after this mind-numbing job). Like maybe a night class in Italian language or European art. It'd be nice to study something completely different from Japan for awhile.
2) Of all the places you've visited in Japan which would you recommend the most? For a one-stop visit to Japan, it'd have to be Kyoto. Without a doubt. Miyajima and Nikko are also really beautiful (I did those on study-abroad though; not this year)
3) What part of the city are you from anyway? Upper East Side
4) What do you want to be when you grow up? Honestly, I have no idea. It changes constantly. Art specialist? (but I'm not even sure what kind of art). Teacher? (mostly for the vacation time) Poet? Japan scholar? (what does that even mean?) Travel book writer (or something else that pays me to travel) Mother? All of the above? But it doesn't really bother me that I don't know; I'll figure it out. I guess most importantly I just want to be happy. So I want to do what makes me happy. (whatever that is...)
5) Lastly, now that you're closing in on a year, compare the things you came to understand at 6 months to what you know now. The last 6 months have basically just reinforced what I learned in the first 6. That being alone all the time is really not fun or healthy and that I don't really fit in in Japan. The only really new thing is that since about February I started dating (or attempting to date) Japanese men. And what I've learned there is that they may be hot (in my opinion at least), but I just don't think it'd be possible for me to have a significant relationship with a Japanese man. The language and cultural barriers are too high. Relationships are hard enough without adding more complications to them.
2) Of all the places you've visited in Japan which would you recommend the most? For a one-stop visit to Japan, it'd have to be Kyoto. Without a doubt. Miyajima and Nikko are also really beautiful (I did those on study-abroad though; not this year)
3) What part of the city are you from anyway? Upper East Side
4) What do you want to be when you grow up? Honestly, I have no idea. It changes constantly. Art specialist? (but I'm not even sure what kind of art). Teacher? (mostly for the vacation time) Poet? Japan scholar? (what does that even mean?) Travel book writer (or something else that pays me to travel) Mother? All of the above? But it doesn't really bother me that I don't know; I'll figure it out. I guess most importantly I just want to be happy. So I want to do what makes me happy. (whatever that is...)
5) Lastly, now that you're closing in on a year, compare the things you came to understand at 6 months to what you know now. The last 6 months have basically just reinforced what I learned in the first 6. That being alone all the time is really not fun or healthy and that I don't really fit in in Japan. The only really new thing is that since about February I started dating (or attempting to date) Japanese men. And what I've learned there is that they may be hot (in my opinion at least), but I just don't think it'd be possible for me to have a significant relationship with a Japanese man. The language and cultural barriers are too high. Relationships are hard enough without adding more complications to them.
posted by Ashley at 10:41 PM
1 Comments:
happy birthday, ashley!!! i'm glad japan has been a good experience and i'll be happy whenever you come back to the US; it increases my chances of seeing you!! have an awesome day, and much love.
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