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It's a bit hectic and my hair is flat, but let me take the last video of 2024.
Excuse me for the water. Thank you everyone for 2024.
Thank you for your hard work. Ah, it's delicious.
It's been so hot in New Zealand that I can't remember it being that hot.
Yes. So this is the last video of 2024, so I would like to look back on the past year.
Well, this year has been really intense and I don't know what it was, but I think it's
been a year in which my feelings inside me have changed so much. So I'll start from
the beginning. I'm Nakajima Sake.
As for my life experience, I passed the hello! project audition in 2002 when I was eight years old, and from then on I was active as an idol with hello! project until 2017, and then I did a little bit of acting after that, but I wanted to learn something new, and I haven't studied it until now, so I'd like to learn English.
I like traveling, and I love new stimuli.
I'm coming to study language abroad, but at that time New Zealand was closed due to the covid-19 pandemic, so I first spent half a year in Hawaii, then I came to New Zealand, and it's been almost two years since I came to New Zealand.
Yes, in the midst of all that, I spent the whole year last year studying English as a student, but at the beginning of this year, from January to March I was in Japan, preparing for a working holiday visa, and came back to New Zealand at the end of March, and now I'm in New Zealand with my working holiday visa on hold.
Yeah. From here on out, I feel like I can choose a lot of things for myself.
You can work on a working holiday visa, get a work visa from there, and stay in New Zealand for three or five years if you want.
Well, I'm 33 now, so if I apply for a working holiday visa for another country, like Canada or Australia, before my 31st birthday, I can go to other countries on a working holiday even when I'm 31. Or I can go back to Japan.
Those of you who have been watching this video may have heard, but I came here at the end of March, and for half a year I worked as a tour guide for Japanese people in the tourism industry.
The workplace was an English environment, so I thought, "Oh, so this is how you work using English."
Thankfully, many people said that English was their second language, so I guess that's why.
I had the impression that the English I heard was easy to understand, but, well, my subordinate, in addition to being a tour guide, he also worked in cafes and souvenir shops and the local ninth — well, New Zealanders are called "ninth in New Zealand" — and when I listened to the English of the ninth, they spoke native English.
So at first I couldn't understand them very well and made mistakes, but still, I enjoyed working there for six months.
But, somehow I felt that I wasn't getting enough stimulation.
And, I don't know, by leaving, I realized how good Japan is again, and I thought that I wanted to enter a phase where I don't really need many things anymore.
So, my father is a farmer, so I thought it would be nice to go to Japan and help him and learn various things with the goal of taking over the farm.
That's because, when I came to New Zealand, many people are already doing home production as a matter of course, and the primary industry is thriving, so when I see a lot of farmers like that, it's a really wonderful job.
I realized that I couldn't live without those people and that my father had done something amazing.
I was thinking about going back to Japan, but then I met Woofing, a community where you help out by plowing and weeding the fields of people's homes, and in exchange for that, you get a free table for lodging and a free table for meals.
If you do that, you can meet all kinds of new people, learn about things I want to learn, and you can even get free lodging and meals?
I thought that was amazing, so I started living in Woofing, and I still text the people I met in Woofing, and sometimes I send them messages like "Merry Christmas!", "How are you doing?", or something like that at Christmas.
I made some really good connections, but there were also some incidents that made me realize
that I had to be careful about things, so I started living in Woofing in October, October,
November, December.
Well, it was only two months, and I took a break here and there to go sightseeing,
so I was on the lookout for six different things in those two months.
But I feel like I've had enough experience.
You might think it's a trend, but it's changing all the time, but I think the reason it keeps changing is because I'm basically in a mood to go back to Japan.
But I've applied for a working-free visa. And now is the only time I have. So I don't think it would be a good idea to go back to Japan. So I'm looking forward to staying here.
Well, I've been traveling away from my home Rotorua for two months. And now I'm back in Rotorua and taking a breather. And my host family here seems to be in high spirits recently.
Well, at the time, everyone was really busy preparing to go to camp, so I didn't get to talk much, and I'm going to join the camp from tomorrow, so I have to pack again.
I've been packing and unpacking for a long time, but well, well, well, well, putting that aside, well, there are so many kind people who are really coming back.
Yeah, in Rotorua. I just got back. So many people said let's meet up. And I really felt blessed to meet them.
I was really grateful to the people I met in Rotorua, but I think that being away from them makes everyone's kindness sink in even more.
Yeah.
I think people have all kinds of opinions, and there are things you can't understand unless you live there, and the more you experience, the more people's perspectives you have, but how can I put it?
For me, New Zealand is a country with a very small population and nature is really close by, so everyone is calm, and I think it's a country where neighbours help each other, but I think that for kids who grew up here, the connections with people like that aren't that close, so I think it's really different for each person, but I really feel comfortable in this country.
It's fine, but right now I'm in the mood to go back to Japan.
But for me, it's a place where I think I'll come back soon.
I'm going to study abroad.
When I decided to start this channel, I wanted to know that Japan isn't the only place
to be, and I want to tell people through me that they should go study abroad.
Not only that, but also your friends' community and the like - it's not the only place to
be.
I thought it would be nice if I could convey that there are many more options and make
them feel a little better.
Yes.
Thank you for watching!
But for me, having studied abroad, I found a place in my heart and soul, and of course
I have to work hard to stay because of visas and such.
But I think that if I ever feel a bit down, I'll go to New Zealand.
Not just for a little trip.
But I've found a place where I can be naturally healed, and that has been a really big thing
for me.
Maybe I'm not putting it all together nicely, but I'm pretty satisfied after two months and I only have rough plans for what's to come after, but my friends are coming to New Zealand so I'll definitely be in New Zealand until then, but I'm not sure what will happen, so I'm starting to think that maybe I should go back to Japan a little earlier, but it would be a shame to miss it so I feel like I should continue, but also part of me thinks it would be a good idea, so I feel kind of torn.
I've been saying this for a long time, but it's really simple, but I want to live my
life cherishing the people I have now, even if it's just a little conversation like
thank you to the people I've met or who contacted me, or how are you doing, and that's all
I want to say.
So, 200 2014 is really over.
I've been thinking for a long time that I have to shoot the last video, and I've actually
shot it twice, and I'm not sure if I'm still talking properly, but my thoughts are really
stopped right now.
I can say what I think.
Ah, I can look back on 2024 and talk about what happened, but when it comes to what
we should do in 2025...
I can't talk at all, like it's exciting and sparkling, and then...
Ah.
But, because I always make videos, it's no good.
I try to shoot on a different day, but it's no good.
This video will be uploaded tomorrow, but I'm in a hurry because I have to shoot a
video because I'm going to meet up with my host family again from tomorrow.
But I feel like I've calmed down.
What can I say?
I've calmed down, really.
I'm so satisfied now.
So, rather than a strong energy heading straight for something, I feel like I'm just here
and living my life, and I'm supported by a lot of people, and I'm talking like, "let's
catch up", and I feel so happy.
So I don't really know what to say, but I don't know myself, I really don't know.
I really can't.
I really don't know how to end it, but everyone, thank you so much for watching the video
in 2024. I think the last part of the video was me talking alone, but thank you so much
for listening to my big adventure stories and complaints.
Well, the first video of 2025 will be on a break.
Then, after that, I'm thinking of reviving the video, but if you have any questions, I'm sure you're right.
I'm going back to Japan at the end of March.
So I might bring it up.
So yeah.
I can only talk about my experiences studying abroad, but yeah.
If you have any questions about studying abroad or about myself, I guess I'm in the process of wrapping up my study abroad life.
So, including that, if you have any questions, I'm looking forward to hearing from you.
So, I'm really sorry for being so busy.
So, thank you everyone for 2024. Have a happy new year.
See you again in the second week of 2025. Bye!