So I still haven’t written any emails. I’m such a horrible person. I’m starting to think I’m incapable of writing a decent email before 1:00 in the morning.
I’m feeling torn at the moment. I’m torn between NYC and Tokyo. NYC, which is just over the horizon, and Tokyo, where I’d rather go but am no longer sure how to get there. I still want to go to Tokyo, to live and to go to grad school, but I’m kinda at a loss as to how to get there initially. The deadline for JET was December 5, and now that I’m no longer doing the AmeriCorps, I really wish I had applied back when I still had a chance. Now if I want to go with JET, it would add another year to things. I don’t think I’m willing to sit around for two years waiting to go to Tokyo. If I can’t go sooner than that, I’m just going to go to NYC instead. But for how long? Can I just go for like a year and then go to Japan? Or if I go to NYC will I ever get to Japan at all? It’s hard to know for sure.
Right now I’m printing out the application for another English-teaching program in Japan. Can’t hurt to try.
I’ve been so interested and enthusiastic about Japan that now that all my plans have gone straight to hell, it’s hard to know what to do. NYC is there, ready and willing as always to take me. And I now have anew roadblock between me and Japan. But can I give up on it so easily? No. And I shouldn’t. NYC will always be there. Granted, so will Japan, but with Japan, time is more of the essence. Dammit, I’ve GOT to go to Japan. I’ve got to teach English for a couple years and I really really REALLY have to get my masters in media arts studies at Tokyo Polytechnic.
