Yeah it was just tears of joy streaming down my face like I've been waiting for so long
and I was already about to give up on my dream I said to myself I cannot make it by April.
I'll give up on it because I just can't take it anymore so when I heard their opening in March
I was like oh I can finally go and yeah I don't have to give up on my dream so I was super happy.
I first reached out to Go! Go! Nihon in 2019 and I wanted to apply for the visa in 2021 but because
of the pandemic, I am just like moved to Japan this year 2022.
I talked to you guys at Go! Go! Nihon like my student coordinator always like motivated me and yeah
it was good that somebody else was like motivating me to keep up the good work and
so the waiting wasn't that bad.
Sometimes I was thinking about giving up but deep inside I thought that it's really worth it to wait to come.
The process of coming to Japan was first getting the COE (Certificate of Eligibility)
once you have the COE you can take it to the embassy. Right now there are some other
documents required that you usually will get from your school and if you have all the documents in
place you can go to the embassy apply for the visa once you get the visa you can book your flight
and take a PCR test and yeah that's basically what's required at the moment.
After I got my visa after I finished everything at the embassy and I actually got my flight ticket and had my apartment
I took a direct flight to Haneda airport and after I landed yeah the process was a little bit more
complex because of the whole Covid situation so I had to like go through different steps like
taking PCR tests, filling out different forms but everything else went very smooth because
before I downloaded all the apps, I did all the document things so it was easy.
Our first school week started with online classes
because our school for security reasons preferred to keep a safe distance
to let time pass before our arrival and meeting other people.
Afterwards, we started lessons offline and it was great because we met new people and our teacher in person.
In my opinion, learning is way easier compared to learning behind a screen.
The first few weeks were very very nice at school I attended online classes last year for like
a full year so I already knew the teachers or some of them and when I actually came here to like high
school I was able to talk to them in person see them like gave them little gifts and right now
I'm in the intermediate course so we dove right in and started having conversations learning new
kanji learning new grammar points. Yeah thus far it's amazing, I really love it.
My favourite thing of being in Japan it's the possibility to go out for a walk with my camera and explore every corner
in the city and take picture, videos and to be able to share it with social media.
Yeah I was able to experience the city because
I didn't have to do any quarantine and I had some days off before the
new semester started. I went to Kamakura, I travelled around Tokyo.
My favourite thing about Japan for me is the atmosphere of the places I go to. I have the feeling that
all the details and all the little things Japanese people do always like warms my heart.
I really really like the energy and also I love the nature here, it's really really beautiful.
I applied to come to Japan because maybe it's a little bit difficult because they require a lot of documents
and it requires a long time to come but once you are here in Japan it's really worth it.