study abroad in japan

Just two weeks left before I leave for an 8-week summer program in Tokyo. I’m so excited!

After studying and living in London for about half a year, I cannot wait to travel again. Originally I wanted to study in Japan, but my initial difficulty with the language my freshman year of college has made it just a distant dream.

Studying abroad in Japan taught me a lot about a complex and beautiful culture. It also brought me one step closer to gaining the confidence I’ve been dreaming about since I realized I was lacking it. Yes, many memories have been made here, sooo… no regrets about this one~ ;D

And yes, it’s amazing how much Japanese you can learn in a mere semester!

join the army and eat soba, I thought about moving toward asian studies but anything past the language is so not interesting to me

What you need in the world are contacts – “networking”. I’m on this right now. But of course it’s not only to gain advantages. I get involved with Japanese and the language course of the university because it means a lot of fun to me. I enjoy spending my time with the people. Today we had been invited for dinner at Prof. Tsuchi’s home. And it was a really great and pleasent evening with my teacher and the guys.
On Feb 28th a japanese fellow from Tokyo visits a friend and in march, I am attending some students from 東大 (Todai – University of Tokyo) that are going to visit Munich and Berlin. I am really looking forward to this. I think that’s passion. Great!!

until i leave for kansai gaidai university! i’m studying abroad this fall! any suggestions?

Turns out I’ll be studying in Kyoto April 2007! I’m sooo excited! But it’s conditional—I need to keep my Japanese grades at least a 3.0. ^.

Gotta start saving up money~

By this time next year, I should be in Japanese III class at my uni. If I can pass it with a decent grade, I’ll get to go study at Japan for 6 months (exchange students program yadayadayada) and they’ll cover most of the expenses. Wish me luck.

So, I applied through the UC’s Education Abroad Program to study at Doshisha University in Kyoto for the Spring 2007 semester. Hopefully, I’ll get accepted—they’ll let me know by June. [crosses her fingers]

I’m taking Japanese 101 at Michigan State University, and since we have a great study abroad program, I’m hoping to get some sort of scholarship in the next year or two to study abroad in Japan. I have yet to actually have a meeting with the SA department, but that’s one of my first goals after moving back to campus this Thursday.