No random buddy requests please, I just don't have that much of time anymore, to sort through you guys.
I would like to become a doctor but there are many other things that I might have to consider. I love anime for one thing and I like to read a lot of books.
I am somewhat of a nerd, so it is rather unusual of me to like anime but I do, I even find that strange.
I do have an admiration for the Japanese people for many a plethora of things.........
As of late I even considered genetics as part of my profession but that changed after I got an A- on my biology exam.
I have lived in many places. Most of the time me and my family are somewhere between Japan, U.S.A, Germany, Holland and China.
Now I am living in a rather rural area, I am not really for that type of life. A faster paced life suits me better. Japan was one of those places. There is a distinct difference between rural and suburban areas there. Sometimes, after having lived an active life, one doesn't realize that it is something special to travel around and see other cultures, but that changes when you stop moving around.
To get up, eat, go to school, learn, come home, eat, work, sleep, is a long and ongoing process to me, not that I don't like school, but after a while, even if curriculum is diversified, you get bored.
One even gets jealous of those who you know from that past life, who are still traveling. Friends would do simple yet silly things like have competitions over who has the most passports. Now when you look back, it is like seeing people who were too rich, playing a game. The winner would get to go on a vacation, payed for by the children, to anywhere in that country on the next weekend.
One feels left behind in a sense, like there are people that are slowly surpassing you, moving on, loosing contact. The games were put on different levels of how important the compared information was and the price of the reward, to loose the top level game was to pay is some serious dollars, it was as if we had so much of money, that we were all trying to shove it off on other people:) Yet now I am tearing my hair out for wasting money like that.
That top level game, was was the ratio of how many countries you'd been to, to how many of them you were a citizen of. my ratio was always somewhere between 31:12 and 43:22, but I lost only once. That is a rather long story.
Back then, while I was in Tokyo, Japan, my father would be in Australia and my mother would fly between Osaka and Seoul. This was a similar case with most of my friends, japan is like a traveling magnet, they have rivers that flow with money and ample jobs to offer if you are good enough. In the case of me and our friend, our fathers would be world renowned physicists or senators and direct advisers to the national diet of japan. Parents of a very high status. Every few months my parents would get letters taking them off somewhere. Usually it was close by, but we would move if it was anywhere more than 20,000 kilometers away from where we lived. In a way, that life seemed perfect. In the U.S a kid left alone for months at a time, I don't even want to see his grades, but we got so used to trying to have all that fun, that it wasn't fun, we didn't have parents to nag us about homework even though we were doing it. We would get very high scores on all standardized tests and would have even more competitions with that. I would get 997/1000*, and one might get 1000, but generally we were all very closely bonded, grade wise, financially and socially.
*standardized tests in japan are based out of 1000 points. you are ranked from the best "1st," to "999th" Generally schools have thousands of students so 999 isn't that bad, especially since it is so competitive. 999 might have a score of 800, that may only be 80% but for one of these tests, that is still pretty good. To get in the top 100 guarantees you a place in the best colleges and high schools. To get in the top 50, you are a genius and are begged for in all colleges in japan, top 10 means you are probably going to graduate with the top diploma even if you get "F's"* in college. To be in the top three is a very high honor that lets you test on an international scale, which I am not allowed to mention here, but to get 1000 on a test there is an amazing feat.
*College is really easy for most students because they are pushed to near death before that, it is just that even though you don't always get into the college you want, a college is something that everyone wants to get into. It is getting in that is hard, you are probably going to get out pretty easily too because to get in you worked you head off in the first place:)