No Muscles & No Confrontation: 2 Valuable Aikido Lessons
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Senpai Success Story #11: Sarah, Explorer of Language Programs
Welcome to the Senpai Success Story, where you can read about others who have walked a unique career path using their Japanese language/cultural skills. If you have your own SSS to share, please read more here. (Psst: Senpai means “mentor” or “teacher,” and the concept is important to understand for anyone wishing to work in
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Get Outside Of Your Comfort Zone
A lot of us wake up in the morning and get ready for work or school. We usually run through a list of good habits without thinking much about them, such as flossing, making our usual breakfast or (optimally) getting our dose of daily exercise. We head to work or school where we tend to
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I Conquered My Ridiculously Insurmountable Mountain
My best day in Japan was probably my most challenging day. It was also technically 2 days because it occurred through the night. What was it? I climbed Mt. Fuji! Apparently there is a saying which I never heard until today when I looked up some articles on Mt. Fuji: “He who doesn’t climb Mt
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Kikkake (or, what possessed me to start learning Japanese)
My father and high school Japanese studies teacher made me go to Japan for the first half of my senior year. … Or, at least that is how I remember it. I know I didn’t really have a desire to go, but I obediently agreed to their crazy idea because I was that kind of
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Learning Japanese and living in Japan made me a kinder person
Since I started learning Japanese in high school, I have been fascinated with other language-learning stories. What makes people want to learn other languages? How do they get fluent? Why does someone want to live in a different country? Is it even possible to use foreign languages in a job? I don’t know why I
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For the love of KARAOKE!
The first time I did karaoke was in the fall of 1995. I was in high school in Japan, and we went to karaoke in our school uniforms. I was aghast at the thought of socializing in my uniform, I didn’t understand the songs that my friends sang, and I was mortified when I attempted
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