hii 🙂 i’m currently 22 years old and i’ve been heavily contemplating studying in Japan. as in getting accepted into a University to study for the full degree!
i would love to hear peoples good and bad experiences, and to get some opinions if i should do it 🙂
here are some reasons why i’m considering Japan:
• i have never been interested in studying at a uni here in New Zealand and always knew that i’d go somewhere else if i found out what i wanted to study. i’ve hated this country since we moved here from Norway when i was 8 years old. i dislike the social aspects, how the seasons are switched, i don’t want to be tied here (like lets say i get into a relationship and their family lives here, meaning we’d have to visit) and how loud people can get. most of the people are very lovely though! it just isn’t the country for me and my biggest fear is to be stuck here forever.
• Japan is the closet country that i have considered, i did consider Australia but it’s very alike NZ (sorry) so no thanks. i also thought of England but i read the international student fees are super high.
• i’m enjoy reserved / quiet cultures much more, i’m from Norway and always love going back there for that reason.
• i’ve been having health issues for 4 years (i’m getting much better), which has left me very isolated and i feel TOO comfortable where i am, and leaving the country could get me out of my comfort zone / give me the push i need to actually get my life rolling, even if i end up only making one friend! i also really want to study the thing that has interested me since i was young.
• it’s far away from my mum, dad and sister.
• i want a completely different experience. i’ve done lots of travel growing up but none in Asia, so getting a view on a different culture or environment could be great for me.
• truth be told i’m very lost and i’m not sure where i belong, i don’t belong in NZ and atp i don’t know if i even belong in Norway. i have 3 ethnicities under my belt and 3 countries where my family live, maybe studying in a country that i have no connection to could help me on my path.
that’s everything i can think of 🙂 i’m not sure if i’ll love Japan, or hate it, or find it fine. i currently don’t plan to live there, but as i said above i’m not sure where i’d live so i’ll see where life takes me. even if i can’t stand University after a year, it could be worth it?
btw, i’ve done research on the costs and requirements, so it’s mostly just me needing different perspectives.
edit: a commenter pointed out visiting first, which i will be doing! although, even then, visiting and living there can be quite different. but it would be good to check it out and see how i feel 😀
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