About me

About me

Here, I talk about me but before travel. If you wanna know about my travel, please go to Travel.I'm not sure where to start so here's basic info..Name: Masa(Masahiko Hanada)

Nationality: Japan

Age: 30

Birthday: 17/Mar/1982

Language: Japanese(Native), English(Fluent), Spanish(Good)

Countries visited: 22-25(Depends on the definition, I think)

Illness: Epilepsy(If you wanna know little bit more, check Epilepsy.)

Born and bred in Japan.

That was true until I turned to 25. That is when I started to travel around the world.

When I was a kid, I always played with my friends, especially, football(not American).

(Ask my parents how I was)

When, I started to study English(which was when I was 12 years old, when I entered Junior high, which was when school started English education in my generation. Not same now.), I liked it. Even if I couldn't get a good score in the exams, I still liked it. And, I still liked it even after I graduated high school so I went to one language school called "Kanda Institute of Foreign Languages(KIFL)" in Tokyo, Japan to study how to communicate in English. KIFL was pretty good and I was able to speak enough in half a year but school was for 2 years so I kept studying there. It should be really surprising for my friends from hometown or highschool that I speak English fluently. I think all my friends from KIFL speak at least ok English, although, my other Japanese friends from hometown or highschool doesn't speak any so it's pretty rare I think.

After I graduated KIFL, I didn't get a job because I was busy for something else and didn't looking for any.

So, I kept working as a part-time, simultaneously looking for a permanent job but not that hard, and finally got a job half a year after graduation.

It took me some time because I was looking for a job that I could use English so I can keep practicing my English and earn more money(There are not so many Japanese who understand English so you can earn more if you speak English)!! And, the job I got needed to speak English!!

So, I started to work as a regular employee. But when I joined, I already had a plan to quit that job after 3 years and study abroad. 3 years supposed to be enough time to earn money.

2 years later, I accepted job offer and moved to another department.

Before accepting a job, I thought it through. I did had a plan to quit that job after 3 years, but it was an opportunity to learn more practical things and I also wanted to improve my English and seemed like I would get even more opportunity to practice my English so I accepted that job offer and was gonna work for 2-3 years.

But, at that summer, I visited one of my friend in Canada. During whole my vacation, I felt that my English was not good enough and I felt like I need to quit my job right away and go study abroad. So, I made up my mind. Quit my job.

Then, after summer vacation, I talked with my boss and quit my job after 3 years in the end.

So, I was supposed to go study abroad, but instead, I've been traveling around the world.

You wanna know why?

Please go to Travel.