I'm... a little more than 2 weeks away from my departure to Japan... and I'm not happy.
I'm probably at my lowest in years.
I'm closing on on a dream, but somehow I still can't see it, my world is darkened by that 1 thing that's going bad...
I think I could become millionaire right now and I'd still feel like shit...
And it's not that bad... I guess if you watch it from the outside, I'm not sick or anything... but I can barely gather enough motivation to breath and eat right now...
stupid brain.
I know I should stop caring about this... I know it's my big dream coming up, so why care avout something like this?
But I can't stop thinking about it, I can't sleep, everything tastes bad.
...
I decided to go with an apartment, because the shared house are just too expensive for the difference in privacy and convenience. Unfortunately, I waiting too long after my first choice so it's already taken. After that I found another Interesting one, and really cheap too. So I quickly wrote to the guy to tell him I was reserving it, unfortunately, due to his slow answers, and probably to his colleagues faster answers, someone else got it first. Now I ust looking at all apartments again from scratch *sigh* It's boring and takes so much time. At least if I was there I could see them, feel the place, but doing it just from pictures and description isn't that convenient.
The job hunt however is going well. I'm at the second Interview now, so if I don't mess up I should secure it.
In about one month I'm leaving Canada, to go live in japan, for a period of a minimum 6 month, and we'll see how long I can manage to stay after this.
1 month goes by very quickly. So I started searching for an apartment and a job.
After looking up at about 500 apartment/shared house/guest house I think I have settled on a nice, and not too expensive apartment near Nakano. While not being Akihabara, Nakano is still a really nice place, with the Nakano Broadway, containing a lot of Otaku shops (most of which are Madarake). It's also one of the stations on the Yamanote line, meaning I can reach any important station quite easily.
The biggest problem I was facing is; an apartment in Tokyo is expensive, and while I do have a lot of money to back me up, in case I can't get a job, it would be safer to just get a shared house at first.
I also found one that was interesting, 10 minutes from Akihabara, one of the cheapest. However when I contacted them, the real price was actually 10000 yen more expensive than advertised., putting it's price too close to the price of the apartment. The little savings were not worth the drop in life quality implied by a shared house.
While I was searching for apartments, I also stumbled upon an advertisement for an English teaching school in japan, looking for instructors. The school is called Gaba, offer really flexible schedules, a relatively good pay. I applied and they answered me, asked for more information. I sent this yesterday night, so now I'm waiting for an update on this.
If this goes well, and they take me, that would make the whole waiting process a lot less stressful.
Hi everyone!
I just came back from Montreal, and I got my Visa, so now there' nothing left but to way for the day I leave!
For those who may be wondering:
The process was painless, and overall I was more stressed than I should have been, it's been pretty easy.
The visa I got is the Working-holiday visa though, maximum I can stay with this is one year. If I want to stay longer after this I'll need to get a work visa, or immigrate, that's a whole different story though.
Hello everyone! First thing, today I went to the Consulate General Of Japan at Montreal to deliver all the needed paperwork for my visa application. I was a really stressful week, getting all this together, not being sure if everything was alright. The process went well though, everyone was really nice.
So all went well and Now I'm waiting for my visa next week, until something goes wrong!
I'm still kinda nervous, can't wait to get it! then it'll only be a question of time before I'm in Japan.
In other news, I'm gonna split this blog in two and bring all the french posts into another blog. I'll post the address later when it's ready.
Hi everyone.
Today I'm gonna talk to you about an out of date topic: "Steins;Gate".
Steins;Gate started as a Visual Novel from the compagnies 5bp. and Nitro+.
It was made into an anime in fall 2011 (one year ago!).
I watched it in the last 4 days.
I'm late getting into it but I wanted to watch Chaos;Head before (same creators). I shouldn't have waited. While Chaos;Head isn't as bad as the critics says, it's not that great and doesn't have any direct link to Steins;Gate.
The story of Steins;Gate is really complex, but the basis is this: A guy can alter time.
Everything beyond this would spoil the fun.
I,ll talk about the anime only here because I only just started the game and didn't play enough to have any opinion about it.
You know if I talk about an Anime here, it's because it touched me. Either because it made me really mad (I'm looking at you toradora) or because this is the greates thing ever.
Well this anime is now in my number 1 spot of my favorite anime.
First thing that made me want to watch it was the character design, especially Makise Kurisu.
This figure is actually what made me want to watch it at first.
The Anime is all about time travel and it's effect/consequence. So of course it revolve all around character development. The story is very nicely build, with references to real life events and organisations. The music is also great. I've listened to the opening song over and over and over.
The story is kinda calm and somewhat funny until episode 9, where it start to get a lot more serious. By episode 12, it's a non-stop emotion filled journey to the end.
I really enjoyed every bit of this anime, all the characters are interesting, even the side character.
you can really feel the emotion of the main character, and feel his despair when things get bad.
One part near the end actually made me smile because they seem to have inspired themselves from Chrono Trigger for a certain part. I won't get into details here about it because it would be a very big spoiler.
I give this Anime 10/10, placing it at the top of my ranking, above the Haruhi movie , evangelion and Season 2 of Code Geass.
