Write a list of 101 things I love. I did this quite a long time ago now, and that list is so out of date now that I thought it’d be nice to make a new one. The last one was really random and gave a real glimpse into my life at the time, so I’d really like to make that happen again!
List one thing I know about each of my students. I have so many students, and sometimes they will tell me something about themselves that is interesting, and then because I have so many, I forget the majority of these things. I feel like it’d help me teach them better if I could remember their interests, even if it was just one little thing. It also means that if I ever switch schools, I will have something to pass to whoever takes over my schools (although I hope that doesn’t ever happen).
Organise my apartment, then create a cleaning routine. I’ve never been great at cleaning, or organising things, the problem there being that I’ve always had a lot of stuff in a small space. Japan is the expert at this though, so there are plenty of things available to be able to manage it.
Once a cleaning routine is created, stick to it for at least two months. There’s no point me creating a cleaning routine and then not actually using it, so this will stop it from going to waste, I hope. XD
Track my spending for one month, and then try and create a budget. As well as being bad at cleaning, I’m also bad with money. Since other goals on my list involve spending money, I think the first thing I need to do is ensure I have it available to use.
Visit 5 cities in Japan I haven't been to before. Cities I've been to are Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe, and Tokyo. I class visiting as any reason I go there, even if it's for a concert/event and I don't really see much of it. So anywhere other than those cities will count.
Visit the Nagoya Aquarium, Osaka Aquarium and Tokyo Sea Life Park. I lived near a aquarium when I was at University, and we’d visit every couple of months. So I want to see what things the Japanese ones have to offer! And turtles are one of my favourite animals, so I’d like to see some again. :D Oh, and if anyone knows of any other awesome ones, maybe I’ll expand my list if I’m able to go to all three of these ones. I think there’s more in Tokyo but I chose this one because Minho and Jinseok from SHU-I went there. XD
Visit the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at USJ when it opens. It’s said that this will be opening in 2014. I’ll still be within the 1001 days at this time, so I wanted to add this to my list. The one in Florida was awesome so I’d love to go to this one too!
Explore Higashiyama Botanical Gardens. This is part of the zoo area in Nagoya, and it’s HUGE. Last time I went it was too hot to really walk around it all, but it’s really beautiful and I’d like to explore it some more.
See the Cherry Blossoms properly. Somehow this year I missed seeing any properly because I didn’t really look into finding out where the best places were to see them and when, but I know it’s something I really should and want to do in Japan.
Travel to both ends of my local train line and see what is there. I use the trains every day and get on trains that go to various places but I never travel all the way to the end, I’m kind of interested to see what is at some of these places I hear mentioned on the train all the time.
Go on a date to the zoo. It’s kind of sad, but I’ve never really been on a proper date, because my relationships have generally been long-distance (but in the same country) and somehow because of that nothing has really felt like a real “date”, so I’d really like to have that experience, and for some reason I’ve always wanted it to be at the zoo!
Go out with a friend at least once a month. I don’t feel like I see the friends I have here nearly enough, and although I would hardly say I’m “lonely” because I still talk to a lot of people, I love spending time with people in real life and having fun, so I want to make the effort to.
List my friend and family’s birthdays and send them things on the day. I have a horrible habit of forgetting birthdays, or not sending things in time, but I love sending people stuff, especially when they’re fandom friends and there is so much stuff here I can send.
Write and send 20 letters/small gifts to friends/family for no reason. I love writing letters and Japan has so much cute stationery as well. I always want to buy them but I don’t want to have them just sitting there, so I want to buy them and do something with them!
Take lots of pictures when I visit England and put them in a photo album. I’ve realised recently that I don’t have nearly enough photos from home here, aside from ones that have been sent to me. I’d like to be able to show people here, including my students, things from England that I love and pictures of my family, so I’d like to have them available and this is my chance to get them.
Go out in England in my Japanese clothes. I was kind of concerned about going back to England since most of my clothes now are very different to what people would consider normal in England, and I didn’t know if I’d have enough clothes to last me 2 weeks. Then I wondered why I was worried, so I want to dress how I like!
Take one photo and write one paragraph about my day for at least 30 days. I got this idea from here and it seems like a pretty nice idea. Hopefully once I get to 30 days I'll want to continue, too.
Go to all the dates on one of SHU-I’s tours. I say tours... this could include single promotional “tours” too but they tend to have a lot less notice and therefore less planning time, so I’m not sure I could pull that off considering how far they often spread themselves. But a tour that’s announced early enough, I think I could manage (maybe with the help of some nice people and their apartment floors, lol) and the right number of vacation days.
Go to three dates on one Johnnys tour. The most I’ve done on one tour is two (for KAT-TUN and NEWS) and so it’d be nice to beat that record, because I love going to more than one show on one tour to see how things differ.
See a concert for a Johnnys group I have not seen before. So far I’ve seen Kanjani 8, Tegomass, KAT-TUN and NEWS, so anyone other than these. I really want to see a Sexy Zone concert, though~
Sit in the arena at a concert at least once. This is more luck than anything to be honest, with how tickets/balloting work, but I’d really like to have that experience at least once. I want to be able to catch streamers too. ;___; /bestreasonever
See 5 different actors I like in a stage play. I’m not including Johnnys in this, I want to focus on non-Johnnys actors I like, because I feel like I’m not supporting them as much as I should since I came to Japan. I’m going to limit this to actors that fall in my top 15 favourites.
Learn how to sing 10 songs confidently at karaoke. Honestly, I don’t consider my voice that great but I love going to karaoke and learning how to sing songs properly (by that I mean knowing all the words and everything and being able to sing from beginning to end without going wrong). There’s several specific ones I want to aim for right now, actually, and two that I could probably mark as completed already, but I don’t want to until I’ve tried them a few more times.
Meet 3 actor/artists I haven’t yet met. By meeting, I mean either officially (as in, a handshake event or some other event like that) or unofficially... basically any way of being close to them and saying something to them, however short. The ones I can count as having met already are all of SHU-I, all of (4 member) NEWS, Yamapi, and Katsuji Ryo. So anyone other than these people would count.
Read 50 books I haven’t read before. I take a LOT of train/bus journeys so I have plenty of time to read, but instead I usually mess around on my phone. I’ll probably get the iBooks app for my iPhone like I had on my old one, and solve the problem that way!
Watch 100 movies I haven’t watched before. I love watching movies! I haven’t been to the cinema so much since I came to Japan, but I want to go more often and see more movies.
Buy a new bicycle. I had a bike here, and I loved using it, however I lost the key for the lock while it was locked up at my local station, and for various reasons I couldn’t get it sorted out quickly and the bike got taken away. :( I know exactly what bike I want, it’s just a case of getting on and buying it when I have the money available.
Buy a new BJD. I miss having one, and it’s unfortunately completely not practical to ship any of the ones I have from England to here, they’re big and fragile and it’s just too expensive for me to afford and I don’t really trust the postal service with them either. I have a choice of two I want to buy, I just have to make a decision on which one (and also preferably what I want to do with it style-wise as well).
Buy a PS3. I’ve wanted a console for a while now, I had a Wii in England but I want a change and there are so many games I’d love to play that are on PS3 and games on previous Playstation consoles I want to play too. I think it’s time~
Buy and play Final Fantasy 7, 8 and 9 to the end. (Of course, I need to do the ‘get a PS3’ goal first, since I need it to play these games). Out of these 9 is actually the only one I’ve ever fully completed, the other two I never finished for various reasons. 9 is my favourite so I’d love to replay it, but I’d also like to finish those other two as well. I found 8 really difficult, from what I remember. XD
Buy 5 pairs of shoes. I have this horrible habit of buying a pair of shoes and wearing them until they are unwearable, and then buy more. I see awesome shoes and I’m like “but I have shoes”... but I want awesome shoes, so...
Find one item of clothing that Massu has actually worn, and buy it. This is ridiculous, I know, lol. XD Technically I could complete this easily with the right money (it costs 8400 yen) because I already found something he has, but it’s jewellery and I don’t really wear it, so I’d prefer to find something else if possible. Any hints of how this is even possible?
Get my clearfile collection to 300. I love collecting clearfiles, and it’d be awesome to be able to meet a goal like this (and maybe surpass it). It feels like I have a long way to go, but I do buy them quite often, so I’m quite confident I’ll be able to make this goal in that time period.
Do something awesome on my 30th birthday. This will be on July 4th 2013. I’m not sure quite what, but I want to do something more interesting than a shopping trip alone like I did this year, especially since I’m hitting a new decade. I have time to decide what ‘awesome’ thing I want to do. I’m in Japan, there has to be something awesome I can do.
Inspire 2 other people to make a list. I’d really like someone else to do this as well, because it makes it a lot easier if you know someone else is working on one too. So, if you want to give it a go, then let me know and you can help me complete one of my own goals! :D
Still be in Japan at the end of the 1001 days. At the moment, I feel like I don’t want my time in Japan to come to an end anytime soon. I love being here and I love my job, and there’s still so many things I want to do here, so unless anything major happens that means I have to go home, then I feel like I want to still be here when the 1001 days end.
Update on my list every 2 weeks.I really want to come close (if not doing all) the things on this list by the end of the 1001 days, and I figure if one of them is to keep updating about my progress, then maybe it’ll encourage me to actually have some progress to update.
Start recycling properly. Japan is huge on recycling but I kind of got lazy with it because my apartment management doesn't seem particularly strict with it. But I understand why it's a good thing to do, and it really shouldn't be too much effort, so I want to try.
Learn to read braille. I'm hoping this isn't something I will ever need to use myself, but it's something I'm interested in learning especially because if I do go back to England my career choice would be to do some kind of work with blind people. I think it'd be interesting to know how to read it.
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