Introvert meets Extrovert (I met George!) [j7P2osS5NE0]

Hey, so sorry it's been such a while since

my last video. I've been so busy. On

Sunday, my mum's Japanese friend came over

to our house with her family, so I was

speaking to her. I spoke to her a lot in

Japanese. I was really nervous. I was

really— I always get really nervous about

speaking in Japanese to Japanese people

because I feel like I need to prove myself

that I can actually speak Japanese. The

first hour, I was so nervous. I went

downstairs, they were all sitting around

the table with my parents and eating

lunch, and I hate that situation where I

go downstairs and there's people just

sitting around a table and I have to go

and join them. I just said hello and I sat

down and I started eating my food, and I

spoke a little bit in English, and I could

feel like my hand was trembling, and when

I spoke I could feel like my lips

trembling. But after about an hour— I also

had some wine, so that helped calm me

down— after about an hour I started

talking to my mum's Japanese friend in

Japanese, and We talked a lot, a few

hours. I told her about things like my

experiences living in Japan, relations—

relationship things, my current

girlfriend, and it was really nice talking

to her. I haven't— it's been such a long

time since I properly spoke Japanese in

real life, not just on Skype or on— or by

phone, so I really enjoyed that.

I also spoke to her husband. He was a bit

of a shy, quiet person. But I spoke to him

and he said he was actually an English

teacher in Osaka for about 4 years. So it

was interesting talking to him about

living in Japan and things like that. And

I don't want to sound like a pedophile or

anything, but she also brought her

children. She has one daughter and a son,

half Japanese, half English. And the

daughter is about 14 years old. And you

know that video I was talking about, my

first ever crush I had on this girl who

was half Malaysian, half British? This

half-Japanese, half-British daughter, she

really reminded me of my first crush. It

was really nostalgic. I didn't have like

sexual feelings towards her, obviously.

It just really reminded me of when I was

14 years old and I had that crush on that

girl. Look at this cup I got. They're

selling all these novelty Easter egg cups

and Easter eggs at the petrol station,

and I saw this one and I really like pot

noodles, so I decided to buy this. It also

had like a big egg inside it, a

chili-flavored egg. It just tasted like

normal chocolate, but when you swallowed

it, it was like really spicy and it starts

burning your mouth. It doesn't taste like

chili. I'm not sure if I'm a fan of spicy

chocolate. It's kind of— it's kind of

strange. So on Sunday was a lot of fun,

and then yesterday on Monday, I went into

London to meet George Trombly, which was

even more fun. It was so strange to

finally meet him in person. After all the

times I've watched him on the George and

Keiko Show 10 years ago and on his YouTube

channel, it was a really strange

experience meeting him in real life. And

it really made me realize that he's not

just a person on the internet, he's not

just a person who exists in video form,

he's actually a real person who exists in

the real world. Which I know is a pretty

strange thing to say, but it's like I said

to him, it's kind of like online dating.

Even if you've known a girl for a long

time and you've seen her photos, you've

Skyped her, you've video chatted to her,

when you finally meet in real person, it

always feels kind of different to what you

expected. Sometimes it can feel different

in a bad way, like you're not attracted to

the person, or you don't find the person

as interesting as you thought you would,

or it can be different in a good way and

they're actually more interesting and fun

to be with than you expected. And when I

met George yesterday, it was definitely

different in a good way. I've watched him

a lot Um, in his videos, so I kind of knew

what to expect of him as a person. And

he's watched my videos on my YouTube

channel, so I guess he kind of knew what

to expect of me. So it kind of felt we

knew each other even though it was our

first time ever meeting and talking to

each other properly, having a proper

conversation. And we just had so many

things to talk about, like living in

Japan, learning Japanese, um, career,

relationship stuff, girl stuff,

talking about YouTube, and the time just

went so quickly. I ended up staying in

London for almost 8 hours. I really wasn't

expecting to stay there for so long. I

thought we'd just meet up, have lunch,

maybe talk for 2 or 3 hours, and I'd go

home in the afternoon, come home and then

go back to work at night. But luckily my

boss said I could take the night off

because I told her that I was going into

London to meet this guy, and she said I

could take the night off, which was great

because I was so tired when I got back and

I had to finish the translation work that

I got on Fiverr. So it was really nice not

having to go into work that night. Yeah,

so about Fiverr, a few videos back someone

commented on one of my videos saying—

suggesting that I should make a Fiverr

account. And I'm so glad you left that

comment because I actually took your

advice and I went and signed up on Fiverr.

And I put my skills as I can speak

Japanese and I can do translation, and a

few days later Someone offered me a job

translating a hentai manga comic, which is

kind of funny, and I actually finished it

today. It's this. There was 20— there were

28 pages, and, um,

he's paying me $10, which I know is really

low. I should have charged more. I really

don't know how much I should be charging

for these kind of things, and I honestly

didn't think it would take that much time.

It took me about 8 hours in total, I

think. It wasn't hard doing the

translation, it just takes such a long

time doing these speech bubbles. Look,

I had to erase all the Japanese out of the

speech bubbles, and then I had to create

my own text on this app I used. I used

this app called— it's called Over, and you

can insert shapes and text, and you can

manipulate the images. It's really good.

I want to show you it. Hold on. It just

looks like this. See, you can add text and

you can like resize it and make it bigger

and larger. It's a really good app. I did

it all on there and it just took a lot of

time. So I think next time I'm going to

charge more. He actually said he had a

second comic he wanted me to translate.

So next time I'm going to say, because it

took me so long to do the last one, I'm

going to ask him for a bit more money.

But it was so surprising that I could find

translation work so easily. I only signed

up a few days ago, and then a few days

later I'm already getting offers. And then

last night I actually got another message

from a different guy on Fiverr asking me

to translate this Excel spreadsheet from

English into Japanese, which looks quite

easy. I'm going to charge this guy a bit

more, maybe $15 or $20, because I feel

like $10 is too low. I'm earning more than

$10 per per hour at the petrol station,

and it takes me more than an hour to

finish these translation jobs, so I feel

like it's okay to be asking for more

money. Um, I'm just so surprised that I'm

actually getting paid translation work on

Fiverr even though I just started it like

a few days ago. I don't have any

experience, I don't have any reputation,

I don't have any positive feedback on my

Fiverr account, and people are offering me

jobs. I've always felt like I'm not good

enough to get paid translation work

because I don't have qualifications, I

don't have experience. I feel like there's

thousands of other better qualified

translators out there. Why would anyone

choose me when you can just choose one of

them? And this has really been like an

eye-opener. I feel like I can actually do

this. I can actually get paid translation

work. It's always been a big goal of mine

to be able to make money using the skills

that I have. Anyway, going back to

yesterday when I met George, I don't think

I've ever met someone who's so energetic,

upbeat, motivated, and optimistic about

everything. It was really refreshing to be

able to speak to someone who's so

positive, and I really felt— I really felt

inspired and motivated after talking to

him to focus more on trying to get things

like translation work or work where I can

offer people artwork. We actually took

some videos together. I was a bit

disappointed that we didn't take more

videos together. I wanted to, but I feel

really uncomfortable making videos outside

when there's people around, and I feel

really uncomfortable taking videos

together with another person because

usually I'm always— I'm in my room and I'm

just making videos by myself, and that's

how I feel comfortable. I think I'll put

the videos that I took with him at the end

of this video. It's not very long, maybe 4

minutes worth of video. We went to Oxford

Circus, we had lunch, we had ramen, and

then we walked around a bit. And then we

went to, um, Shakuzuru.

We accidentally stumbled into there after

getting lost in— I think it was in Camden.

And then we walked around Camden for a

bit. It was already really late, like 7 PM

or 8 PM, so everything was shutting down.

And all these like really shady kind of

scary people started appearing, like drug

sellers. And they— people kept approaching

me, like trying to shake my hand and

trying to talk to me. We just ignored them

and walked off. It was really awkward.

And you could hear people saying stuff

like, do you want to buy some weed? Do you

want to buy some smokes? And there's like

this weird smell that was everywhere. It

kind of smelled like cigarettes, but more

like armpit smell. I don't know what weed

smells like, but I think it would smell

like that. It kind of felt like a gang

fight was about to start at any time. It

felt like people were gonna start fighting

at any moment. So we got in an Uber,

which was my first time ever using Uber,

and we went back to Oxford Circus. We went

to some kind of coffee place and we got

coffee, talked for a few hours more, and

then I got, I got back on the train, went

home. It was actually my first ever time

in London by myself. Every time I've been

to London before, I've always went with my

sister or with my parents. And for some

reason, I've always been really

intimidated about London in general. It

just seems like such an alien and scary

place to have to go to by myself and get

on the train and use the Underground by

myself. But it wasn't too bad. I got on

the train, I managed to get all the way to

London by myself. I didn't get lost on the

Underground. I didn't feel scared or

unsafe apart from Camden. Camden was

really scary in the evening. All these

weird people kept approaching me, trying

to shake my hand and trying to start

conversations. We just ignored them and

walked off every time. It was really

awkward. Yeah, like I was saying before,

after speaking to George, I felt so

motivated and inspired. I felt like I

really should be focusing and

concentrating my efforts on trying to get

myself a job or find work where I can use

my skills with, um, translating Japanese

or doing artwork. I really feel like What

am I doing at this petrol station wasting

8 hours a day of my life in this

soul-crushing job which I absolutely hate?

I really want to quit soonish, maybe

before summer. I'm not sure yet. I'm gonna

have to tell my boss that I'm planning on

quitting maybe during summer or after

summer. I'm not sure. I really don't want

to continue there. I really want to stay

at home and focus on like building

an artwork portfolio or Trying to find

more translation work. I feel like I had a

few things in common with George, like our

interests, our motivations are kind of

similar, but our personalities are

completely different. He's really

energetic and optimistic and positive

about things, and I'm like the complete

opposite. I'm really low on energy. If you

watch my videos, I feel like I'm falling

asleep. I don't really have much energy.

I'm not like, Whoa, I'm not like PewDiePie

or Jacksepticeye. I'm really pessimistic

and negative about things. I don't— I

always feel like I'm not good enough. I

always feel like there's so many more

people who are better than me. Why would

you choose me to do your work? And after

talking to George, I just felt really

motivated and inspired. It felt like, oh,

so this is what it feels like to be an

optimistic person. I quite like this

feeling. I want to feel like this more.

The thing that impressed me most about

George was his ability to just be able to

talk to anyone, like random strangers,

and just strike up a conversation. For me,

that is something that's just impossible.

I could never imagine myself being able to

do that, or I don't even know if I would

want to do that even if I could. I've

never really had an interest in striking

up a conversation with a complete

stranger. Unless she's a really cute girl.

But it was just so interesting seeing him

having conversations with strangers, and

it wouldn't feel awkward or unnatural. It

was just like completely natural. You

could just sense that he had so much

confidence. He didn't feel nervous about

speaking with people at all, and I

feel like I wish I could be more like that

as well. It was such an interesting

experience. I'm really glad I got the

chance to meet him. It's all thanks to

this YouTube channel and thanks to that

guy who let George know about the video I

made talking about him. It feels like so

many doors are opening thanks to this

YouTube channel. Me being able to meet

George, being able to express my feelings

and emotions, being able to make some

extra money from my videos, being able

to get advice from people who comment on

my videos, like that guy who suggested

that I create a Fiverr account.

I have to admit, I'm really stubborn and I

don't like being told what to do, And I

ignore most people when they try to give

me advice. I don't like to listen to it

because I feel like I know better. And

yeah, I know that's not a great

personality trait. I know it's not a great

characteristic to have, and it's something

I should work on fixing. And maybe I

should be listening to you guys more when

you give me advice instead of just

ignoring you. After listening to that guy

who left the comments suggesting I should

try out Fiverr, it kind of made me realize

that maybe I should be listening to you

guys more. Maybe I shouldn't be ignoring

people when they give me advice or

suggestions. Maybe I'm not always right

all the time. I was actually playing

around with this idea of why don't I do

this experiment where for a year I let the

people who comment on my videos decide

what I do with my life. So every time I

have like a big decision to make in my

life, why don't I let my comment section

decide for me? For example, if I have to

decide between A and B, I'd say, guys,

Should I choose A or should I choose B?

And if more people say A in the comments,

then I'd go for A. For example, should I

quit my job in summer? Yes or no? And if

more people say yes, then I'll quit. If

more people say no, then I won't quit. I

guess the only problem with that would be

if there were trolls, or if there were a

lot of people who don't really like me and

they made multiple accounts and they voted

for the worst option to sabotage my life.

Anyway, I think that was all I wanted to

say. It's been an interesting week, a lot

of interesting things happened. I met a

lot of new people and I had a good time.

So yeah, thanks everyone, and super

special thanks to George. I had a really

nice day. I hope I wasn't too boring or

too quiet or too weird. I'll put those

videos that I took with George at the end

of this video right now, I guess. So I'll

see you later in the next one.