Welcome, welcome to yet another blog page of mine.
I write this blog with thanks to so many emotions that I've experienced (and continue to experience) over the last year and a half. Anyone who really knows me, knows how obsessed and diligent I've been with Japan and the Japanese language. I've literally fought tooth and nail to maintain my passion and it has led me to so many different aspects in my life...
As an Ex-JET for almost a full year now, I reflect daily--LITERALLY DAILY--on my most recent time in Japan and what I "could've done differently". My post-JET life has been quite a trial in terms of figuring out what I want to do with my experiences and the rest of my life. But I digress.
IF you are reading this blog, you may know me personally (as I've said), read my blog Sankai Japan, or happened upon this by Google-magic. Nevertheless, this will be my most recent and personal blog for a new experiment I call 茶色先生 (AKA: Brown-Sensei). Why Brown-Sensei? Well, I will tell you as best as I can in short form (Japanese conjugation joke, lol?). In my college years, I was determined to somehow combine my new disciplines of Advertising and Japanese--hoping to be on a creative team for a Japanese advertising company or at least an ad-company with Japanese businesses as clients. I can tell you now that I remember hardly anything from the Advertising part of my degree, $36,000 (+) in student debt later. BUT, I can say I've learned so much about myself throughout it all:
- I no longer care for Advertising (not really).
- Japanese is the biggest passion of my earthly life and I will fight for it.
- I really, really, really, actually like children.
- I am more capable of public speaking/speaking in front of a classroom than I thought.
- I like making connections with kids.
- I really do love the field of education and I never get tired of learning. In fact, I love it.
- Lack of exercise makes me a She-Hulk. (Digression, lol.)
I note all of this to say and to introduce my newest endeavor: to pursue a career in education and (very hopefully) become a Japanese teacher. Now God only knows where I will really end up, but something is calling me to continue working with kids as well as hold onto the biggest passion of my life. With advertising being a distant memory, I introduce this blog (茶色先生) to express my journey and share my experiences teaching Japanese to [young] children. OH! And I am a brown person. (Get it? Brown person...teaching...sensei...?) How many brown people/people "of color"/African-American/Black people do you know that pursue Japanese as I do?! (It's rare, trust me).
So, welcome and よろしくおねがいします。
~Brown-Sensei (茶色)
