At the end of last year, the ukulele club at Yamasa had a party where someone asked what our goal for the new year is. I remember saying I had 2 goals.
1) to experience 合コン (Gokon) and
2) to pass 漢検準2級 (Kanji Test Pre-Level 2).
In mid-February, my former colleagues helped fulfill my first goal and arranged a gokon (Japanese-styled matchmaking) session where I met a girl who looked a lot like 藤原紀香 (Fujiwara Norika).
The gorgeous Fujiwara Norika
As for my 2nd goal, I had intended to go for it in June when the first Kanji Test of 2011 is held but due to the slowness of my pace, I didn’t manage to start studying for pre-level 2, so I decided to go for level 3 first, which I had more confidence in. I went for the test and the first few sections seemed pretty OK to me because I literally spent months studying for it but towards the end were some pretty difficult questions that I didn’t know the answers to. It turned out a little more difficult than I had expected.
Yesterday I checked my mailbox and saw this…
An envelope from the Kanji Test organisation
I opened it and voila!
Kanji Test Level 3 certificate
I passed!!!
But to be honest, I found out about it 10 days earlier because we can actually check our results online. Hehe…
I registered for the pre-level 2 test in October a couple of days ago and while I’m not exactly confident this time, I sure hope my efforts will reap me some positive results.
But I suspect you’re more interested in what happened with the Fujiwara Norika lookalike. Well, I guess things just didn’t work out.
Congrats for getting through the test! Good luck for your next one! 😀
Congratulations on your results! 🙂
Congrats with passing the test.
1 curious question, did she ask you for your blood type or any “blood type” vs personality discussion was made?
But it is ok, means you can go for your 2nd gokon :p
Thanks for the congratulatory messages, people!
Well, I vaguely remember our entire exchange since it’s been almost half a year now since that gokon but I think we did talk about that. I kinda suspect that wasn’t so much a problem though.
In actual fact, I only participated in the gokon because I wanted to experience it. I wasn’t really looking for a partner, though that would be a bonus. But since it was the first time, I wasn’t really sure if doing this or that was ok so I really held back most of the time and didn’t really do much.
It was an interesting experience though I’m not exactly sure if I’m up for another one.