Time really flies. When I realized, I have not been blogging for 1 1/2 years already. But that doesn’t mean that I have wasted my life (I hope not lol.)
After blogging on Mixi in Japanese for the longest time, it’s kinda weird for me to blog in English again. But rest assure that I’ve NOT forgotten my English command.
As most of you may have already know by now (if you follow my status updates on FB closely), I had an interview today with the Professors from Waseda University through video conferencing at Waseda-Shibuya High School. Seriously, I have never thought it would be so much more nerve-wrecking than meeting VVIPs.
There were 3 persons before me.
First person was equipped in full lounge suit, and speaks American English. He said he was being asked A LOT about his application essay. He went in for 35 minutes.
Second person just wore a short sleeve collared shirt, came out after 35 minutes as well, said the same thing but.. unfortunately, as she didn’t write the essay on her own, she couldn’t answer some of the questions. In my mind, seriously I was thinking, even if someone helped you to write it, shouldn’t you have seen it through before the interview?!
The third person‘s a young Japanese lady who has been to International School in Singapore, but she doesn’t speak Japanese. Her Mum was rather surprised and delighted when I started to talk to her in Japanese, and complained to me that her daughter can’t speak Japanese. When she came out from the video conference room, she couldn’t stop complaining “they are SO STRICT!! and they asked me SO MUCH about my essay”. She, was in there for 30 minutes or so.
Then, it was my turn.
I went in, did self-introduction, being asked a number of questions regarding my experience in my work, my well-established portfolio, my future ambitions, what subject I am most interested to learn in GLOPE and my relationship with the Japanese Language.
I told the Japanese teacher that the very first Japanese “thing” that I had chanced upon was “Natto”, and he’s like “NATTO?!?!?!?!?!” and the other 2 Professors laughed. Then I explained that I really love eating Natto with raw eggs, and since then I’ve tried a lot of Japanese food, which are readily available in Singapore. Then I further told them how influenced we are by the Japanese, in terms of commodities, culture and people.
At the end of the interview, the Professors commented: 「面白いですね」 (You’re interesting.)
And? I only went in for 20 minutes and I wasn’t being asked about my application essay AT ALL. WHY?!?!?!
*shock*
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