I have had many dreams so far. For example, I've dreamed of
being a nurse, a novelist, a painter, a teacher, and many other
things. When I was a junior high school student, the homeroom
teacher for my first and second grade class was a great. He had
an amusing character, but when we were wrong, he got angry with
us. I respected him, and at that time I wanted to become a junior
high school teacher.
After that, because of my father's death, I learned that even
though I am a woman, I should get some special qualifications.
When I was in third grade of junior high school, we had to take
entrance examinations for high schools. Because I wanted to enter
the School of Law at Chuo University, I decided to enter
the Chuo University Suginami High School. My dream was to
become a lawyer then.
I entered Chuo University Suginami High School, and my
high school life was very interesting. I made many good friends
and studied very hard, but my grades were not good. Near the end
of my second year in high school, I heard that a new faculty
would be established at Chuo University, and we heard a
detailed explanation from Dean Atsumi. I was very interested in
this new faculty, and my dream changed around that time.
Now I have a dream to become an international journalists The
reason I have this dream is as follows.
First, I don't want to become a typical female office worker,
because Japanese companies hope female office workers will not
work at their company for very long. Moreover, female office
workers who have no ability have only one choice: to get married.
Even if they become happily married, after their children become
independent they have nothing to do except everyday housework, or
they may lose their husbands from some disease or by some
accident like my mother did.
About five years ago, when my mother lost her husband, she had
to make a great effort to earn money to live and to pay for our
education. She studied illustration and luckily, still had my
father's business connections, so she could get work quickly. If
she had no technique and no connections, she could do only
part-time work for a small salary. From these incidents I learned
the necessity of having some technique or some special
qualifications to help me when an accident happens to me.
Second, many crises are breaking out all over the world, such
as racial disputes in former Yugoslavia and the northern
territorial issue between Russia and Japan. I believe we should
cooperate with other countries much more, not only by paying
money. However, I do not agree with dispatching the Self- Defense
Forces. There are many things which we don't know in the world,
and we should know and understand many incidents which happen in
other cultures. I hope to go to various countries, see many
things there, and introduce the truth about them to many people
in the world.
For these reasons, I want to become an international
journalist, and I entered the Faculty of Policy Studies in order
to achieve my dream. In this faculty we can learn not only one
field but also other fields, such as law, economics, the
constitution, the environment, history, religion, and data
processing. Moreover, the system of English education is very
good.
Though I have never been to a foreign country, I want to study
abroad someday while I'm in university. I am not a hard-working
student, but I want to study many more things around me. There is
no knowledge around us that is not useful. My dream is still so
far away now, and I have to make more effort to get there. I do
not know when and if my dream will change, but my life is long
and I want to live hard now to draw near my goal.
by Reina Endo
