Well, after I took the bus to go to the Japanese embassy yesterday, in vain, since my contact wrote: Tuesday, March 26th and I'd rather be safe than sorry I of course went again today.
Turns out the other applicants were from Copenhagen university so they're more specialized in the language, whereas since I was from Copenhagen business school hadn't read Japanese poems, classical literature or went in-depth with the grammar. I was nervous that the others might have an advantage when it came to the language but when we went out for lunch it turned out that the test had been equally hard for them as well. And trust me, it was DIFFICULT with a capital D! For a couple of the questions I could narrow it down from 4 to 2 since it was multiple choice but then I had to go with either my gut feeling or go with the tried and tested "eenie meenie minie mo!" Yes, don't worry I didn't count out loud, that would probably have given the others a good laugh!
After lunch we had the interview. I was expecting it to be in Japanese so when 1 of the 3 interviewers said that I should introduce myself in English it threw me off but hey, I thought that the preliminary rounds of the interview might be in English and then we would switch to Japanese. I was so thrown off that I forgot some words...in English! Gahd and I'm supposed to be more fluent in English than I am in Japanese. Well, after a while of talking, he broke it off, thanked me and told me that I would be hearing from them in the next week. My jaw kinda dropped on the spot. Well, if I had known it was in English then I, of course would have been so much more swift. Dang! Well...
No need to worry more about that, just keeping my fingers crossed and waiting for next week to come...
10 comments:
Fingers crossed.... and toes... and eyes too!!!! :D
good luck and I hope you go through! :)
いいですね！wow i hope you get it :) i bet you must be so fluent in Japanese, to have know that stuff!
awww, fingers crossed! im hoping you hear good news soon!
sending good throughts your way, crossing my toes for you too! :P you have to be trilingual now? japanese, english and danish, damn girl they'd be silly not to want you...
*crosses fingers for you, too*
Angels all around the deliberation. I hope you get in. :)
Best of luck to you too! When do you find out? If you do get in, what would you be doing at the embassy?
Interviews are so damn nervewracking! GL! :D
Good luck! :)
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