Sampler Training Before Holidays to Japan
I dream of holidays to Japan
Yes, it's true. I do dream of holidays to Japan. Or maybe one years-long holiday. If I ever had kids I would have to go again and take them too. And then maybe again upon retirement. Or maybe just any excuse for a vacation (or every other excuse) would end in holidays to Japan. I want to see Tokyo, ride the public transportation, visit the temples, eat in the little shops on the side of the streets, visit the Studio Ghibli museum (yes, I'm a little bit of an anime dork), go shopping in Tokyo, go to an onsen, and all kinds of crazy Japanese fun. Yes, I've been planning my holidays to Japan for a while. And no, sadly I have not gone yet.
Not everybody that plans for holidays to Japan goes
I realize that I am probably one of a huge throng of people across much of the globe that is making castles in the air kinds of plans for my holidays to Japan (or to wherever your Japan is, as I like to say, because everyone has a place that they've dreamed of visiting for years). But why do I think I'm any different from the rest of this great multitude? Why am I so unshakably confident that my plans will actually go through for my holidays to Japan? Well, for one thing I am just so darn confident that it will happen, and so gosh-darned determined to make it happen that I am increasing my odds just by being myself here. For another thing, I've actually got a plan in place to start saving up money until the one summer when it's actually an affordable, doable thing. And besides, I just want it so bad and I am so optimistic that it will happen, that it is impossible for me to believe otherwise right now (and I hope I never, ever get that knocked out of me).
How I am preparing for my holidays to Japan
Well, first off I am working on learning Japanese. No, I don't expect to be an expert at it by the time I get there (because I'm still holding out hope that we can make it work in the next five years), but I hope to be able to at least have passable conversations with people on my holidays to Japan. Also, my fiance and I will both be working soon (and I'm not the unemployed one right now, for the record), and hopefully between the two of us (and with me most likely being the one doing the budgeting and planning, etc) we can quickly save up enough. Granted we won't be incredibly wealthy, but as the oldest from a big family I really know how to save by pinching here and there and everywhere. And so I am boldly confident that my plans for holidays to Japan will come true!
