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Originally Posted by ChisaChi
They seem like pretty decent reasons! Choosing an area you think you'll feel comfortable in makes sense, and I've heard they love the whole sister city thing - make up some spiel about strengthening ties between your two cities and how much this means to you. I've heard that saying you know someone in the place you choose isn't looked upon too happily, although I'm not really sure why.
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If I had to guess, I would say that they may frown upon it because if you know people there already, usually someone isn't nearly as likely to go out and become part of the community, and instead will just stick with the people they know.
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Originally Posted by ChisaChi
There's a few other cities closer, but they're quite large and will have significantly more competition  When I think about it 7 people from a state of 300,000 people isn't too bad. Most people move to Canberra to take up government positions there rather than wanting to move away, so now that I think of it my odds aren't too bad after all.
I reckon I can spin a good essay when I need to, so hopefully that'll work enough... I'm hoping that the fact I have some experience with working full time as opposed to fresh grads will count for something. |
Yeah, those numbers really aren't that bad at all. I really like your chances with that ^^ Work experience will certainly benefit you, and with a good essay, knowing the places where you want to live (and good reasons for wanting to live there), things are looking pretty good ^^
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Originally Posted by ChisaChi
That's why you go for the shooters ^_~ I'm not a big drinker either actually; I've been drunk at times (it doesn't really take much) and I wouldn't mind drinking with my colleagues at an enkai, but I'm really hoping to not get to the insane liver destruction stage it seems many JETs do. Luckily as a small girl I doubt there will be too many expectations of me!
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See, you're lucky with the fact that they won't have a lot of expectations of you when it comes to drinking XD I'm an American guy who's just about 6 ft. tall, and I have decent amount of meat on my bones, so I have a feeling they'll be expecting me to be able to put away a 12 pack or something XD Luckily for me (or unluckily, depending on how aggressive they are about getting me to drink ^^;; ), despite the fact that I don't drink very often at all, I have a really high tolerance for alcohol, so I shouldn't have to worry about being drunk out of mind or puking in the street..a sight I've seen many times in the streets of Tokyo XD I'll have no problems either at drinking at enkais and things like that, but I'm not gonna go to bars all the time like a lot of foreigners do whilst in Japan.