The Arashi 30-day Challenge for Interesting People
So,,, I got this from PockyKai-chan ^^
and I decided to do this.
Apparantly, there's this site on LiveJournal called 'The Arashi 30-day Challenge for Interesting People'. I checked it out, and decided 'hey this sounds like fun!' so I'M GONNA DO IT!!!! http://hontowa.dreamwidth.org/676.html
So... DAY. ONE (for those of you who have seen 'Mulan' by Disney, everytime I say this, I think of how the scribe-person said it at the very beginning. I know, I'm weird but hey)
DAY ONE: TELL THE STORY OF HOW YOU CAME TO BE A FAN OF ARASHI. INCLUDE ONE LIE IN YOUR STORY AND SEE IF PEOPLE CAN GUESS WHICH PART IS THE LIE.
So, my story is actually a little bit interesting. A few years ago, right when I started getting into Japanese music, it was right around Christmastime when I started listening to this radio station called 'Japan A Radio'. One day, as I was leaving the house, a song came on the radio and it made me sit there and listen to it. There was just something about this song that made me sit there at the computer and pay attention to it. Sadly, back then the radio station was the kind that didn't tell you what song it was or who the artist was, so I had no way of figuring out who the artist was. I didn't even know the lyrics (having listened to it only ONE TIME because it never came on again) so I couldn't even attempt to find it. The only part I really remembered about the song was this one part: "Omoide zutto~ zutto~"
A few years went by. My friend gradually moved from being obsessed with Jpop to being obsessed with Kpop, and the only real Japanese singer that I listened to, Utada, had gone on hiatus. There were a few Japanese songs that I had fallen in love with and every once in a while I would think of this song and think 'I wish I knew what song with was~' One day, while in school, I was in an independent study class that was on the computers. It was me and a friend of mine doing Rosetta Stone (I was taking Spanish) and while I was on the program I would listen to music from YouTube. That day I think I might have been at a loss as to what I wanted to listen to or I was thinking about Sho so I texted my friend (there wasn't a teacher in the room as we worked) 'hey you know who plays shawn? wheres he from?' (Shawn is a character from a story me and my best friend made up. His portrayer is Sakurai Sho). She texted me back and said that it was Sakurai Sho, so I looked up Sakurai Sho, saw he was in a group named Arashi, looked up Arashi on YouTube, and started listening to the music box version of 'Love So Sweet'.
I KID YOU NOT! I FREAKED OUT! The moment I heard the chorus part start playing, I stopped what I was doing and just froze. I listened to it again. I listened to the actual song. I looked up the lyrics. IT WAS THE SAME SONG THAT I HEARD ON JAPAN A RADIO!!! I was so excited that the guy that I was sharing the lab with was looking at me like 'What the hell are you freaking out about?'
I think the fact that I found Arashi when I did was a blessing from God. When I found them, I felt like I was at a crossroads. I wanted to be a teacher, but I felt like if I wanted to be a foreign exchange teacher then I would go to either France or Korea. I had know teachers who had gone to Japan and taught, but my parents weren't too keen on the idea of me liking or obsessing over things in Japan, so I forced myself to narrow the two countries down. When I found Arashi, I became happier and as time went on, I realized that I had become more open and happy and more true to myself. They ultimately made my life a lot better. Now, I want to go to Japan and be a teacher.
WOW!!!! that's a long post. Sorry guys ^^
anyway, knowing me, can you guess the lie? It might be harder to find than PockyKai's was xD
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