話說回來一切都是從2011年4月開始的吧....當時本人已經知道大學生活即將要畫下了句點可是又不知道該怎麼面對未來. ... 我那時候是在加拿大溫哥華讀書就讀 Simon Fraser University的考古系. 我們系平常都會寄工作機會的email而且那時的我是絕對不會放過任何一個可以讓我有money的機會所以我都有在讀那些信. 有一天我看到一封關於由University of Alberta(亞伯達省大學)主辦的考古出田野的義工機會而且很特別的是在北海道. 那時候的我比較想找正式的工作而且那時候我個人和新X小姐的戀情才剛開始所以我並沒有特別想去日本而且當時的我一直都有去許多溫哥華當地博物館面試. 而且出田野的地方是鄉下中的鄉下是在北海道不行再北的地方那時我還開玩笑說搞不好在那裏還看得到俄羅斯.
再快轉到5月初.
博物館面試並沒有我想像的順利而在我check我email信箱時我又去看了那封關於去日本當義工的信. 這次我只是想說"那就apply看看好了 反正大概也不會上 而且搞不好在那前就有博物館會來找我." 於是我就寄了封自我介紹給University of Alberta. 反正也不會進嘛......?
大概兩個禮拜後......
起床後第一件事看有沒有新的面試機會. 有一封新的信.....奇怪......是UofA
Hello Steven,
你好 Steven,
我很高興的在此告訴你已經錄取了2011日本禮文島田野活動的機會
怎麼這樣? 怎麼這麼容易就有了???
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Some people prefer to read it in English so I will write an English one as well.
I spent the entire summer and part of the winter in Japan in a grand total of 84 days. I will "chronicle" why I went to Japan and what I did there in this blog. You might think this might have an extraordinary start but no....it had a pretty normal beginning.
So, it began in the April of 2011, I knew my college life coming to an end and I had no idea how I should face the future. I was attending Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. I was finishing up my BA in archaeology (the perfect BA if you want to get a job btw). My department regularly sent out emails regarding about various job opportunities and obviously, a desperate fuck like me would never miss any of them. In the whole month of April, I went to several interviews about having a real job working at various museums in Vancouver as I desperate wanted to make some money. One day, I read a mail from my department saying there is a volunteering opportunity in Hokkaido, Japan. The fieldwork was sponsored and organized by University of Alberta (UofA) at a remote island in Northern Hokkaido. It was so northern, I thought it is probably possible to see Russia from there. I didn't think too much about the fieldwork because I preferred to make money instead of just volunteering and the fact was my relationship with Ms.*F just begun so I did not look at it as a viable option.
Fast forward to the beginning of May...
Applying for museum jobs was not going as smoothly as I had anticipated and as I checked my inbox for new job mails, I gave the Hokkaido mail another read. This time, I thought I should just apply for it anyway. It would just be a backup if I could not find any job and chances were, I probably would not be accepted anyway. So I sent the application along with a short introduction to UofA.
2 Weeks later.....
I woke up to check mails to see whether if any museums got back to me but instead I saw a reply from UofA.
Hello Steven,
Yep. Just like that. They took me in.
To be Continued...
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