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There's lots of hostels in Waikiki on Lemon St which also have various weekly rates depending on the share situation (i.e. how many per room), which could be a good start. I m sure you've stayed in a hostel or two in your lifetime.
Can you at least treat this as a vacation 'stopover' to see if you can make AND THEN have somewhere to go if it doesn't? I mean, you have family on the mainland who are there if for some chance you decide to go onward and leave Hawaii? I think that is key.
If so, then you have nothing really to lose, you got $2500 for a month long vacation in Hawaii. In the best sense , no one would recommend someone coming here with 2500 to look for a job, but to me, it sounds like you are going from Japan to XXXX and having a long stopover in Hawaii with an amount that should tie you over for a month or longer especially if you do the hostel route, cook some meals, go to mcD's dollar menu, buy some Saimin or Ramen (Heck even a big bowl of Udon from Marukame Udon on Kuhio is LESS than $5.00, a filling bowl of curry udon there is $5.75.. I was just there today ).
There are help wanted signs all over Waikiki and at the Ala Moana mall. I mean, ALL OVER. I am in no way trying to inflate your view of success, but it just sounds like you could have what a shop or restaurant would want. So many shops at Ala moana have Help Wanted signs. Clothing places like Forever 21 are looking for workers. Maybe even try Shirokiya, which is a japanese department store at the mall.
Sounds like fun. I did that (or tried to) in Germany several years ago. Obvioulsy I could not work there not being German lol, but i was on my trip abroad trip and had nothing to lose in trying. I returned back to the US 2 months later from when I left, but I was on backpacking/hostel trip anyway. Just like I assume you are. You should be fine. Keep in mind, in many posts, you have no control over who answers and there will always be someone who cannot fathom the choices in life you make or answer a question in terms of how it applies to them. They may be 20, 30 or even 50 years older than you. Only you know your limits. Keep us up to date, okay?
yeah I'll definatly be looking into cheap hostels for sure. And my original course from Japan was straight back home to my parents house! ...which I would like to avoid haha, but yeah this is what you could say a fly by chance. No overly high expectations here, just kind of going with the flow!
If your parents are willing to fly you home after you run through your money I say go for it...many of us spend a lot more than $2,500 just on vacation, you're using it for research. While I'm not too positive that you'll be successful, you'll have a great vacay and lots of life experience, and your parents can get you home and feed you until you decide what to do next. Win win. You're only 20 once!
Speaking fluent Japanese and being a gaijin should be a lot of fun in Hawaii, actually. You'll do fine, especially with the willingness to couch surf. It's not like you're going to have a whole lot of stuff to shift around with you? Most "I wanna move to Hawaii" folks usually have a container full of "stuff", kids, debts, all sorts of inconvenient things but keep enough in reserve to fly home if you have to, but you'll probably have a job real soon. There is also "AirBnB" which is sort of like couch surfing. Plus the hostels and there is a YMCA right across the street from Ala Moana Shopping center, too.
Good Question, if you are marketing your ability to speak Japanese Hawaii is one of the best places to start of. The Japanese population that lives here is well educated and speaks fluent English, however the tourists are all over the place, and most hotels and resorts love to hire Japanese speaking staff, (its a start) as to not getting ripped off when moving well I moved to Oahu from CT in june of last year, and I used Mod cut: advertising, worked for me. If you have any more specific questions let me know.
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