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Anonymous
OP again, this will probably be my last post regarding info about gap years.
I guess I've come to a surprising revelation after thinking about my next 4-10 years and I think I've begun to lose some of my weeabooness (yes I'll admit it, I must be somewhat of one if I wanted to go to Japan this bad).
A) Japan is fun, but at least from what I've seen personally and read about, requires a fuck ton of work to adapt to the language (and with that the culture). B) If I were to do this, my future prospects in Japan wouldnt be very high anyways unless I become completely fluent (teacher? translator? - neither are what I truly want to do). C) I would always be an outsider, and while this makes for good times for short trips, there is no way this is beneficial in the long run.
These are sobering thoughts but probably realistic ones. Maybe I've been looking at this from too much of a wapanese perspective and I realize now that Japan is much better for short term "vacations" if you will such as a college semester abroad for a fun, independent social life. A high school semester abroad wouldn't be able to touch that kind of freedom with a 10ft pole. This was some sorta therapeutic post.
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