I always feel like...
Feb. 18th, 2011 10:25 pmI lead a really boring life.
I get up, get ready to leave, go to work, come home, have dinner or munch on random things, watch shows online or on TV, plot fanfiction in my head (but never get around to writing it), all while chatting with![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jpwic, if I don't spend half the evening playing World of Warcraft with him, then I go to bed.
I feel like no one would like to read about the weather, or a Montrealer living in Montreal, or my bilingual life, or other hobbies (most of my online friends tend to be fannish), or the area where I grew up, or the French Canadian lifestyle (we tend to congregate in the kitchen/dining room, talking loudly and exuberantly, at family gatherings, among other things, and, by the way, Québecois do this, as do Acadians).
Yet, I'm fascinated by other people's seemingly ordinary, daily lives. Which seem extraordinary to me. Whether they live in their home country, or are expatriates to a different country and experiencing a different culture.
I especially love reading about Canadians living and working in Japan. Whether they've been there for a month or 14 years, it's still fascinating.
Maybe that's why I really, really want to take that Japanese Language and Culture program at Université de Montréal. Seriously,jpwic and I both would love to visit that country, and my studying that could open doors in that direction, whether it would be for us to actually have the money to go and visit, preferably for an extended amount of time, or for me to be able to work there, or something to that effect.
Not that we're actively looking to move to a different country, but we wouldn't mind working for a Canadian embassy or consulate out in Japan for a few years, if getting that diploma opened that door for us.
I get up, get ready to leave, go to work, come home, have dinner or munch on random things, watch shows online or on TV, plot fanfiction in my head (but never get around to writing it), all while chatting with
jpwic, if I don't spend half the evening playing World of Warcraft with him, then I go to bed.I feel like no one would like to read about the weather, or a Montrealer living in Montreal, or my bilingual life, or other hobbies (most of my online friends tend to be fannish), or the area where I grew up, or the French Canadian lifestyle (we tend to congregate in the kitchen/dining room, talking loudly and exuberantly, at family gatherings, among other things, and, by the way, Québecois do this, as do Acadians).
Yet, I'm fascinated by other people's seemingly ordinary, daily lives. Which seem extraordinary to me. Whether they live in their home country, or are expatriates to a different country and experiencing a different culture.
I especially love reading about Canadians living and working in Japan. Whether they've been there for a month or 14 years, it's still fascinating.
Maybe that's why I really, really want to take that Japanese Language and Culture program at Université de Montréal. Seriously,
jpwic and I both would love to visit that country, and my studying that could open doors in that direction, whether it would be for us to actually have the money to go and visit, preferably for an extended amount of time, or for me to be able to work there, or something to that effect.Not that we're actively looking to move to a different country, but we wouldn't mind working for a Canadian embassy or consulate out in Japan for a few years, if getting that diploma opened that door for us.
