Hello, everyone !

Hi there!
I'm Gee, 18 years old, currently a university student in Hungary I'm really interested in Japan and Japanese people, mainly because I heard many things that make feel like I would definitely enjoy living there... the whole lifestyle and mentality over there seems to suit me more than that of my country... heh. My main interests are history and foreign languages - accordingly, I enjoy Japanese history, but I don't know too much about it yet... I do enjoy Sengoku themed stuff, games like Shogun 2 Total War, Sengoku Hime 3, Sengoku Musou 3 on PSP, or Paradox's Sengoku, and I really liked the movie "Goemon". I also like the Japanese language, but I only learned it alone, mostly in a passive way untill this september.
I really want to go to Japan and see with my own eyes whether all the good stuff I heard is true; that's one of the reasons why I applied for the Monbukagakusho Scholarship - but the waiting for the final results is killing me (>.<") But if everything goes well, I'll be in Tokyo or Osaka starting April I also plan on writing a little diary-like book about the 5 years I would be spending there, in case I do get the scholarship; I already have a few pages about why I want to leave... Another plan of mine is to work together with other scholarship recipents and do a little "youtube show" about life in Japan as foreign students, kind of like a Vblog with more people, because I was shocked by the lack of youtube videos about the MEXT program (especially the undergraduate program), and I could find only one video about the International Halls at the Tokyo University of Foreign Languages.

Eh, that was kinda long, but anyways, yoroshiku.

Hi Gee, welcome to the forum. There's a plethora of threads here about MEXT scholarships, dig in, absorb, and work on making your dreams come true.

Good luck with your scholarship application.

I wish there were some Americans your age online who write English as well as you do. It brings a tear to my eye to see a young person use a semi-colon correctly.

Hi and welcome! ^-^

I think your intentions are exactly right!
You said you want to see with your own eyes whether the good things you heard were true or not.
That's exactly it! You shouldn't rely on what you read or others told you, but experience it for yourself!
Good luck with everything! ^-^

Mike Cash said:

Good luck with your scholarship application.
I wish there were some Americans your age online who write English as well as you do. It brings a tear to my eye to see a young person use a semi-colon correctly.

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Thank you As much as I like to depend on my instincts in a face-to-face conversation, as opposed to trying to remember all the grammar I've been taught, the nature of a forum allows me to carefully think about what I'll write. Not to mention that I have Google at my disposal! (Sometimes I feel really embarrassed even because of a simple typo; I have a reputation to keep )

zoomingjapan said:

Hi and welcome! ^-^
I think your intentions are exactly right!
You said you want to see with your own eyes whether the good things you heard were true or not.
That's exactly it! You shouldn't rely on what you read or others told you, but experience it for yourself!
Good luck with everything! ^-^

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Thank you
I already found a link to your blog somewhere here and I really enjoyed it so far, especially the "German Alien..." ones; looking forward to a new one I'm curious about how people will react to me, and whether they will know "what a Hungary is". (Although my height is avarage, and I have brown hair and eyes.) I also hope to be able to share my experiences like you do (Though I still need to get the scholarship before that...)
Und vielleicht werde ich dir irgendwann ein paar Fragen auf deinem Blog stellen

Welcome to the forum! I really hope you will be able to get your MEXT scholar ship! There is a lot of information about it on the forum, and I am sure that lots of members are willing to help you out with it as well.

Why would you like to leave your country? To be honest I also wanted to leave my own country which was the reason why I started traveling. It's good to travel, but keep your feet on the floor so now and then!

Gee337 said:

Thank you
I already found a link to your blog somewhere here and I really enjoyed it so far, especially the "German Alien..." ones; looking forward to a new one I'm curious about how people will react to me, and whether they will know "what a Hungary is". (Although my height is avarage, and I have brown hair and eyes.) I also hope to be able to share my experiences like you do (Though I still need to get the scholarship before that...)
Und vielleicht werde ich dir irgendwann ein paar Fragen auf deinem Blog stellen

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Thank you very much.
Glad you enjoyed it ^____^
Klar, gerne!

Mike Cash said:

Good luck with your scholarship application.

I wish there were some Americans your age online who write English as well as you do. It brings a tear to my eye to see a young person use a semi-colon correctly.

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In fact I went back to the first post and started looking for the semi-colon! Hahahaha

Davey said:

Welcome to the forum! I really hope you will be able to get your MEXT scholar ship! There is a lot of information about it on the forum, and I am sure that lots of members are willing to help you out with it as well.
Why would you like to leave your country? To be honest I also wanted to leave my own country which was the reason why I started traveling. It's good to travel, but keep your feet on the floor so now and then!

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There are lots of reasons, really. I could literally go on and write pages about this (actually, I already did, and will continue to do so ).
I'll try to summarize:
*My country: the mentality, the economic and political situation, the fact that I don't feel that my work is appreciated here, and I just basically can't vision a bright future living here. (At least not without working abroad for a long time.)
*Family: As much as I love my family, it's time for me to start my own life. I just want to leave everything behind and start anew, so I can live according to my own rules and values, the way I want to. I don't think it's a bad thing to live with your parents for a long time, but I don't want to do that.
*Traveling!: I want to see the world! There are so many beautiful places to visit... I'd like to become an "international" guy. I'd like to get to know more cultures and languages. (I'm actually thinking about what I should learn as a 4th foreign language )