Remember, Never gonna stop, Dream on
You know the drill: The title is from the song I’m going to translate later on.
So, yesterday I went with my mom to the North Lindenwood Support Center… and picked up my Certificate of Eligibility! (And all of the stuff I’ll need to apply for my visa.) Ya~y! Now I just need to fill out the visa application, take some photocopies of my passport, and send this stuff off to Chicago.
And then I just have to wait for my new host family, and for the day that I need to begin packing. Truthfully, I really can’t wait. Knowing me, this whole situation isn’t going to really hit me until I’m on the plane to get there, but oh well. I’ll deal with it.
To any school friends that happen to read this blog: Leave a comment, darn it! I feel lonely typing all of this up and never getting a comment. I know I wrote the URL in several people’s yearbooks, so unless nobody really cares, I know there has to be someone from school reading this.
If I end up getting the flight we’re trying to get tickets for, I’ll be leaving from the Kansas City International Airport at 6:35am, August 16th. Right now, that’s less than 2 months away, it almost seems impossible. It was more than a year ago that I began looking into Rotary, and then way back in 6th grade was when I had first began thinking about this.
I hope time doesn’t pass this quickly while I’m on exchange, or it’ll all go by way too quickly. But I do know if I end up liking this exchange year, I’m going to try and exchange again either Senior year (which isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, from what I’ve heard) or as a gap year before college. Probably to somewhere else in eastern Asia, or maybe somewhere in Europe. I guess I’ll just see how things play out. I know if I do want to go on another exchange I’ll have to pay for it myself. Note to self: Get a job for Junior year.
Song time!
This time the song is the solo of a member of a Johnny’s Junior (a.k.a. Haven’t debuted with a CD yet) band called Kis-My-Ft2, which is an acronym of their last names.
Kitayama Hiromitsu
Senga Kento
Miyata Toshiya
Yokoo Wataru
Fujigaya Taisuke
Tamamori Yuuta
Nikaido Takashi (‘ni’ is 2 in Japanese. His name also uses the kanji for 2 at the start of it.)
Anyway, the song is Kitayama’s solo, Chikara. There’s also a song at the end by Ya-ya-yah, the group that runs the show. It’s broken up now, and two of the members are a part of Hey! Say! JUMP, one isn’t part of a group anymore, and one quit the agency.
Chikara (Kitayama’s Solo)
Never gonna stop, Keep on sagashi tsuzuketai
itsu no hi ni ka madoinai
chikara te ni iretai
umaku ikanai koto wa dareka no sei da to
itsudatte nigeru no wa kantan na koto
dakedo honto wa motto chigau yarikata wo
shinjiteru susundeyuku tomari wa shinai
jounetsu mo yume mo subete soko ni tsunagaru
sagashi ateru hi made
Remember, Never gonna stop, Dream on
dare ni mo makenai
kateru tsuyosa taemanai yasashisa wo
someday my power come real tadoritsuketa nara
daiji na mono mamoritai mono ga mitsukaru hazu
boku rashiku ikiru tame
someday my wishes come true nani ga okorou to
itsu no hi ni ka madoinai chikara te ni iretai
Never gonna stop, Keep on, I want to keep on searching.
Someday I want to obtain a
