That's a good question
Yeah! I mean ideally you'd be doing something you enjoy enough that you'd want to do it even if you didn't get paid.
I would like to travel.
Ooh, that's a good one! Me too - I'd love to just see and experience a lot of different places. Where would you want to go?
I want to go back to Japan. But I think Rome and around Italy would be really fun And then England would be fun too
Yess! I haven't been to any of those places but I'd especially love to go to England. What brought you to Japan?
I went on my mission to Japan. It is just so fun there. I feel like it was always a party there
Oh, that's really cool! My friend just got back from her mission there. And haha that's interesting! What were some of the coolest things people did there? I mean as a missionary you're not gonna be out partying, but you got to do some fun things right? :)
Festivals were always super fun and there were like school field days that they would invite people to
Do they have lantern festivals in Japan?
Yeah I only got to go a few times but I could see all of them from the our eighth floor apartments I think they do in a few places. Not were I was
That's the coolest thing ever. I love living on the top floors because even though there's more stairs, I love being able to look out and see everything that's going on
Yeah it was fun because I feel like we were always next to where they would have a lot of the events. Like one was near a school and the other was behind the train station so we always saw fun things going on usually right as we were trying to do evening planning haha
Haha just a little distracting I'm actually about to turn in my mission papers right now so I'm really excited to find out where I'm going
oh that's really fun! Where do you want to go?
I mean anywhere would be awesome, but I took 6 years of German and I love it, so German-speaking would be awesome! I'd just really love to learn a language
That's fun. My friend went German speaking and liked it I took three and a half years of Spanish and one of Japanese and they sent me to Japan. of course, my dad and brother both went to Japan as well so it wasn't a huge surprise
Oh wow! Did they have Japanese at your high school or did you do a year of college first?
They had Japanese at my high school. I took it my junior year during the first hour when I thought I was too cool for school so that was hard But it was a lot of fun and actually helped me out a lot
Haha anything during the first hour is hard ... I don't know how I woke up for seminary every day in high school But yeah that's awesome they offered it. We had Spanish, French, and German at my high school but they're downsizing which I'm really upset about
I know I couldn't do that. My seminary was during school hours and got progressively later which was nice Yeah we had Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and I think Chinese was offered but they wanted the Japanese teacher to teach it... which are two very different languages
Hm, that is kinda weird. Like when people ask you to play the organ because you play the piano and you're like "oh no, those aren't the same thing" haha
Haha that's so true. You always think, "You're so close but at the same time, so far..."
Yeah! Pretty much everything I know about organ is from failing my way through hymns instead of actually learning stuff I really want to take an organ class here before I graduate though. Or maybe the carillon class! I really really want to do that
Carillon? What is that/
The bell tower! They have a class where they teach you how to play it. You know how before and after devotional there's usually fun music playing like Hedwig's theme or whatever? Apparently that's almost always a student practicing
Oh really? That's awesome! I didn't know that
Any fun/little-known classes you'd recommend here? Or that you want to take?
I really love volleyball so I want to take that class. And I love physics. But I'm applying for my business major this semester. So I'm not sure how much time I will have to take any fun classes which is a little of a bummer
Fun! I should add volleyball to my list, because I play with friends at the fieldhouse sometimes but I'm not too good and I want to get better I feel you on not having the time for fun classes though ... when I get back from the mission I'm gonna be applying for the animation program so that's gonna be a crazy semest *semester
I played for 4 years in high school and I really liked it. It's hard finding a ton of people and time to play Yeah I am excited because If I get in that means only 6 more semesters till I can be done but that's not really a ton of time
Woohoo! What do you have to do to apply for the program?
Not bomb my accounting final this week... hahaha
Ahh rip :/ good luck with that!
Then I believe it's just a few essays and making a resume and then an interview I haven't really been studying because these have been the first days in a while since I feel like I really have any free time Which isn't a good strategy if you want to pass your classes I'm thinking now
That's good! Doesn't sound too awful but I guess there are a lot of people who want to go in Haha I feel that. I guess I should probably get back to studying now haha
I'm at work right now and I am finally getting around to studying because I have to sit in front of a computer for 4 hours But as I go through this review I'm getting more confident!
Oh boy, sorry to hear that! Well best of luck with your accounting final and getting into your program! You got this! :)
Thanks! And good luck with mission papers and your mission!
Thanks! :)