Get to know each other! (jpod101 user profiles)

[MarzGurl]

Name: Kaylyn "MarzGurl" Dicksion
Age: 20 (21 on the 27th of this month, and still not drinking!)
Place of birth: Oceanside, California, currently living in San Antonio, Texas
Furthest location travelled: Tokyo, Japan :O
Places you want to go: See more of Japan, especially country locations and snowy locations
Spoken languages: English, Pig Latin
Written Languages: English, more fake Pig Latin
Languages in the process of learning: Japanese
Hobbies: Reading, writing, attending and filming and editing footage of Anime Conventions, web mastering (http://www.marzgurlproductions.com), collecting Marvin the Martian junk, video games, table top RPGs, card games, drawing, blogging, EATING, meeting new people, learning new things
Occupation: bagger/checker at a grocery store, student, anime convention videographer
Education: High School, over two years at San Antonio College, aiming for a Radio/Television/Broadcast degree, taking Japanese classes for the past two years and wishing that there was a Japanese major program SOMEwhere in the state of Texas, but there isn't.
Favorite Movies: The Protector, Titan A.E., Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Nacho Libre (great movie with friends!), Perfect Blue (nearly forgot it was animated!), Ghost in the Shell II, Parasite Eve
Favorite Bands: Lately, I've been a fan of a lot of Eurobeat. Dave Rodgers is one of my favorite artists. I don't know many popular musicians anymore, seeing as how I completely dropped out of the pop culture loop. Nobuo Uematsu is a wonderful, talented composer!
Favorite Video Games: I once swore to the Final Fantasies, namely IV, VI, VII, and IX, though I no longer commit to them after Squaresoft/Enix merge (ask me to be more in depth), I play as Marzgurl on FFXI on the Fairy server! World of Warcraft, I'm Marzgurl on Perenolde. Chrono Trigger, Radical Dreamers, and Chrono Cross have a very dear spot in my heart. I also love everything Atlus and Nippon Ichi touches! Can't forget rhythm games, such as Pop n' Music, Dance Mania, Para Para Paradise, Dance Dance Revolution, and Guitar Freaks (it came BEFORE Guitar Hero, people!)
Ultimate Goal: Find the job that makes me happiest, learn Japanese and communicate with new, wonderful people on an international level, be a fully rounded individual and push myself to be a great person!

[JonB]

Name: Jonathan Burson (JonB)
Age: 40
Place of birth: UK
Living now: Tokyo (6 years)
Furthest location travelled: Japan from the UK
Places you want to go: New Zealand, Chuuk, Palau, Vientam, Cambodia
Spoken languages: English - best forget about my French now!
Written Languages: ditto
Languages in the process of learning: Japanese
Hobbies: My 2.5 year old son - hobbies on hold: Scuba & Skiiing
Occupation: IT Manager
Education: BA(Hons) Systems Analysis
Favorite Movies: Highlander, Seven Samurai
Favorite Bands: Too many to mention! I just love music - all sorts
Ultimate Goal: Be able to communicate fully in Japanese - but I think that is some way off..

[Rizu]

Name: Liz
Age: 24
Place of birth: Salem, MA
Furthest location travelled: Key West, Florida
Places you want to go: Japan, California, Hawaii, UK...
Spoken languages: English, some Spanish/Greek
Written Languages: English, Greek, Spanish
Languages in the process of learning: Japanese!
Hobbies: Web/graphic design, writing, reading, videogames, yardsaling for old-school videogames, watching anime
Occupation: Human Resources
Education: M.A. in Mental Health Counseling
Favorite Movies: Back to the Future Trilogy, Star Wars (original trilogy)
Favorite Bands: Luna Sea, Janne da Arc, The Beatles, Do As Infinity
Favorite Video Games: Eesh too many to narrow down: Zelda: LTTP (SNES), Sim City (SNES), Katamari Damacy (PS2) are a couple that pop up. I have so many favorites!
Ultimate Goal: I have a few "life" goals that I really want to achieve. These two are the most important right now:
1. Become as familiar and fluent as possible in Japanese (speaking/writing/reading).
2. Write a book or books (fantasy genre) and get it published.

[Ulver_684]

Name: Sindy Rodriguez Cisneros
Age: 25
Place of birth: Mexico City
Furthest location travelled: NY
Places you want to go: Japan, Korea, England, France, Canada, Norway, Australia, etc
Spoken languages: English, Spanish, Little Japanese
Written Languages: English and Spanish
Languages in the process of learning: Japanese, Korean, French, Norwegian
Hobbies: Play Video games, Play soccer, Surf the internet, Watch Anime, Read Manga, Hear Music: JRop, JRock, KPop Heavy Metal, Black Metal, Dead Metal, etc
Occupation: College Student
Education: Some College
Favorite Movies: Silent Hill, Final Fantasy Spirits Within, Final Fantasy VII Advent Children, Juno, Babel, Crash, etc
Favorite Bands: Collective Soul, Ulver, Mortiis, Emperor, Immortal, Ashlee Simpson, Phil Collins, Depeche Mode, Tears for fears, all 60, 70's, 80's, 90's bands, etc!
Favorite Video Games: Resident Evil Trilogy, Silent Hill Trilogy, Final Fantasy Trilogy, Zelda Trilogy, Grandia, RPG games, Clock tower, Haunting Ground, Capcom Classics, Namco Classics, etc
Ultimate Goal: Finish my degree, go to Japan to meet all JP101 staff and Miki-san S_R_C

[Michelle]

Name: Michelle
Farthest location traveled: Japan
Places you want to go: The rest of Asia
Languages: English, Japanese (some), Chinese (a little)
Languages in the process of learning: Japanese, Chinese (你好)
Hobbies: Aikido, photography, languages, getting lost
Likes: cherry blossoms, green tea, mint chocolate ice cream, listening to NPR, Hiroshige woodblock prints, Irish coffee....
Ultimate goal: visit every train station in metropolitan Tokyo (just joking)

[richandcreamy]

Name: Richie Edquid
Age: 24
Place of birth: San Diego, CA, USA
Furthest location travelled: The Phillipines.
Places you want to go:
Spoken languages: English
Written Languages: ^^^
Languages in the process of learning: Japanese
Hobbies: Too many to list here.
Occupation: I'm always occupied
Education: some college
Favorite Movies: Goonies Err I don't like keeping favorites though and it's not like I've watched this movie a billion times.
Favorite Bands: See above
Favorite Video Games: Music games, like DDR.
Ultimate Goal: Define ultimate!

[laughinghyena21]

Name: Jose Rodriguez AkA Chance
Age: 29
Place of birth: USA
Furthest location traveled: Puerto Rico
Places you want to go: Japan, China, UK
Spoken languages:[/b] English, Spanish Written Languages: English, Spanish
Languages in the process of learning: Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Russian, German
Hobbies: Art, Graphics Design, Video Game Design, Reading, Writing
Occupation: Student (working for Dell)
Education: Second Year College
Favorite Movies: Dusk Till Dawn, Kill Bill Vol.1, Last Samurai, Grandma’s Boy, DBZ
Favorite Bands: Staind, Tool, Disturbed,
Favorite Video Games: Legacy of Kain series, Final Fantasy Series, Street Fighter 3, Halo 1 and 2, Metal Gear, DOA, Chrono Trigger, God Of War, Unreal, Resident Evil Series, and my own game made with 8 other people, Scorn.
Ultimate Goal: To go to Japan, and become a huge designer in the Video Game world.

[laughinghyena21]

i dont really feel like writing anything but just look here instead.

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Ja Ne

[laughinghyena21]

Name: José
Age: 24
Place of birth: Ponce, PR
Furthest location travelled: Paris, France
Places you want to go: Japan, Korea, Italy, Argentina
Spoken languages: Español, English, Japanese
Written Languages: All of the above (Actually my written Japanese is better than my grammar )
Languages in the process of learning: Japanese, Mandarin (I put it in hiatus because I want to concentrate on Japanese)
Hobbies: Languages, 国内旅行
Occupation: Student
Education: I'm 1 year away from a BA in Computer Sciences.
Favorite Movies: Battle Royale, La desaparición de García Lorca, Fresa y chocolate, Ratas, ratones y rateros
Favorite Bands: Sí Señor, La Secta All-Stars, Black Guayaba, Garbage
Favorite Video Games: None recently, but I love Final Fantasy Tactics!
Ultimate Goal: To get my degree and leave the island!! London, Tokyo/Osaka, Paris... I haven't decided yet.

BROTHER!!!!!!!! well first name that is lol

[bonitoclub]

Name: Tony
Age: 47
Place of birth: Wales
Furthest location travelled: Wales! Live in Melbourne Australia now.
Places you want to go: Japan (again), France, Spain, USA
Spoken languages: English
Written Languages: English
Languages in the process of learning: 日本語
Hobbies: gardening, cooking, cycling, watching tv
Occupation: librarian
Education: university
Favorite Movies: Swing Girls
Favorite Bands: Pizzicato Five
Favorite Video Games: ?
Ultimate Goal: To be able to speak 日本語

[sweetneet]

Name: Anita
Age: 28
Place of birth: Lima, Peru
Hometowns: Cleveland, OH, Santa Rosa, CA, Berkeley, CA, Cambridge/Boston, MA (places I have lived in for more than 4 years).
Furthest location travelled: Japan! (twice)
Places you want to go: Japan (again!), Europe (never been!), Australia (never been either)
Spoken languages: English, Spanish, Japanese, a little French
Written Languages: English, Spanish, Japanese, some French
Languages in the process of learning: 日本語 !!
How I got interested in 日本 : got to go to Okinawa in Jan 2003 for a conference, was smitten ever since .
Hobbies: cooking (esp Japanese food), learning Japanese, watching TV, shopping, spending time with my fiance (getting married in October!)
Occupation: graduate student at MIT (almost done!)
Education: PhD in Electrical Engineering (in June!)
Favorite Movies: Babel, Little Miss Sunshine, Spirited Away
Favorite TV shows: Cold Case, Without A Trace, Law & Order, Law & Order SVU, Crossing Jordan, CSI, Forensic Files
Favorite Artists/Bands: CHEMISTRY, Hikaru Utada, Norah Jones, Bjork, Coldplay
Favorite Video Games: none really, except for DDR
Favorite Foods: 鮨（esp. マグロ、ウナギ）、お好み焼き、たこ焼き、わらび餅、煎餅
Ultimate Goal: To be able to speak 日本語 fluently (ぺらぺら！), pass 日本語能力試験（1級）and find engineering job utilizing Japanese
Random Fact: I used to be a die-hard Windows/PC person (hated Macs), until about 1.5 months ago, when I converted to Apple and got a Macbook. Since then I am 100% pro-apple.

[rateoforange]

Name: Patrick Donnelly
Age: 23
Place of birth: Fort Wayne, Indiana
Furthest location travelled: Japan
Places you want to go: The Rocky Mountains, for skiing
Hobbies: Computer Games, Tennis, Photography
Occupation: Motion Graphics
Education: Technical College
Favorite Movies: Adaptation, Apollo 13, Princess Mononoke, The Incredibles
Favorite Bands: They Might Be Giants, Hybrid, Utada Hikaru, Modest Mouse, BT, Royksopp
Favorite Video Games:
Classically: Deus Ex, Planescape: Torment, No One Lives Forever, Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries, Starsiege: Tribes, Planetside, Everquest 1, Subspace

At the moment: Battlefield 2142, Gears of War, Supreme Commander, Senko no Ronde
Ultimate Goal:

My fiance is joining the Jet program. As we are very much in love and have been for going on 4 years, I decided to go with her and attempt to live and work alongside her for the year or two she will be there.

I was in Tokyo for a week last year and felt, even in the short time, how alienating it was to be surrounded by a language that I couldn't understand a word of, or even pronounce or look up in a dictionary. My ultimate goal is, really, to be able to read signs on the subway, understand ads or television programs, and just generally be able to come close to deciphering what people are saying. Oh, and play a JRPG front to back without a dictionary.

[osekihan]

Name: Sophia
Age:
Place of birth: Japan
Furthest location travelled: Japan
Places you want to go: ...Japan
Spoken languages: English
Written Languages: English
Languages in the process of learning: Japanese
Hobbies: Reading, writing, eating
Occupation: Student
Education:
Favorite Movies: Nothing especially
Favorite Bands: Oasis
Favorite Video Games: None
Ultimate Goal: Live in Japan

[vtombilla]

Name: Vanesa Tombilla
Age: 26
Place of birth: Vigo, Spain
Living now: Newcastle, UK
Places you want to go: Japan! And also Finland, Italy and Greece.
Spoken languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese and some French
Written Languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese and some French
Languages in the process of learning: 日本語 !!
Hobbies: Learning Japanese, watching anime, reading, doing aerobics, swimming and dancing.
Occupation: translator for an advertising company.
Education: Degree in Translation and Interpreting (English-Spanish-Portuguese)
Favorite Artists/Bands: to many to mention
Favorite Foods: at this moment, any Spanish food! (I'm missing it so much! I've been living in UK for almost 2 years now!). And Japanese food as well!
Ultimate Goal: To be able to speak 日本語 !

[Dai]

Name: Dyna
Age: 16
Place of birth: Irving, TX
Furthest location travelled: Memphis, Tennessee
Places you want to go: Japan (And I'm so glad I will be this year!), Italy, Germany, Canada, Korea
Spoken languages: English, Japanese (not very well)
Written Languages: English, Japanese (not very well)
Languages in the process of learning: Japanese, German, Latin
Hobbies: Writing, drawing, cosplay... lots of other stuffs
Occupation: Student
Education: 11th grade
Favorite Movies: Slayers Great, Chakushin Ari, The Lion King, Mulan
Favorite Bands: Moi dix Mois, Stray Cats, Rammstein, E Nomine, Panic Channel, Vidoll... lots more XD
Favorite Video Games: FFVII, Slayers Royal (1+2), Kingdom Hearts, Devil May Cry, Disgaea(1+2+Portable)
Ultimate Goal: To teach English in Japan! ^o^