Hi, all

How is going?

I recently hung out with some foreign universtudents to do drinking and sightseeing to give opprtunities to meet Japanese who can not speak English and do not know other culture well.

 They came to here learn Japanese, Japanese culture, and stuff like that. But what they are doing is just hung out with other foreigner students or some Japanese who are interested in English or some lungage they speak.

Usually, in Japan, people are not interested in English and can not use it. That's because we do not need to speek English even though we  have learned for some years. And peopel like me who are just interested in English and use it are kinda special. Except for some business such as sightseeing, I think we hardly use English in Japan.

If you come to Japan to learn Japanese  culture as a student, you should try to make friends from not only  people interested in English or other culture, but also people who have no idea about other culture, I mean very Japanese.

This is what I did in US.

I have many friends, even though I had just stayed for ine year. Some American friedns are interested in Japan for some reason not because of me. So they talk to me. At the same time, I thought I should have talk to others who have no idea about Japan.

And what I learned from my experiences is there is slight difference between those people. I exchange my culture with both of them, but I think I got  more new idea and  exchange culture more with people who have no idea.

I believe that situation with people who do not know each other well gives rise to big understanding and good experiences for them.

So, now I try to make opprtunities to meet Japanese who have no idea about other culture, not like me, for the foreigner students. I am sure they can exchange their idea with them more than with people like me. Besides, while they and I are talikng, tt\hey tend to speal English because it is much easier to talk than in Japanese. I think they should use Japanese. That's purpose of their staying here.

So, I expect them to enjoy the chances to exchange culture with peopel who can not use other lugage except for Japanese and do not know other culture.

hi, all.

I recently finishied some tests for qualifications such as English. I spent much time for that. I think I did well on these tests. Anyway all I concern about those is the result. Now I am thinking another qualification test, which is gonna be knowledge anout current events including poloitics, economiucs, and such. Just in case, I am not "qualification freeky" lol To study something always is good thing. Besides, in Japan, if you have some qualifications, they help you with finding good job.

What else I did recently were... I went to fihsshing, fly fishing!! I do lure fishing and some others, but I've never go fly fishing and that was my first time. it was so much fun!! Actually, I wanted to go fly fishing, when I was in US, but I couldn't. I catched some trouts. I should some pics of them but I fogot bringing a camera, so I do not have any pics of them. Next time I will try to do so.

I Japan, we have a lot of beautiful mountains, which had a lot of rivers with trouts and chars, etc.... So we have no problems to find  some places for fishing!! Yea!! I am so excited!! XDXD

Hi, all

 How are you?

Recently, I really think about my future a lot. In Japan, many of people tend to think job as their life. In  other words, they always try to find meanings from job, but not vacation. For them, jobs are much more important than vacation. That's one of reasons Japanese are such hard-worker.

Without doubt, I also think in that way. Job will be my life. So, my first choice, which will be decided in one year, is gonna be very important.

Job is life. However, the matter iss How do I want to pass my life? The most important thing  for human is how they live, what is purpose of your life. There are many possible ways I can choice. For example, even though if I think Job is very important, if I want to have family, including kids, I have to make spare time for my family. If so, I have to chose jobs, which has more spare time than others. (It is really difficult to find such jobs becasue many jobs just require too much work here!!).  If I choose a way which makes me very busy but is job that I really want to do. This kind job may not allow me to share with family well because of too much work.

Besides, there are other factos to think about for jobs. If I join company such as trading company, I have to ignore something like child labor to get pay or promotion, even though I think child labor should be prohibited. Although people say something good things such as child labor should be stoppted, they tend to think their life or their family is more important. It is just natural. I am sure about it, but somehow I can not help thinking about such bad aspects of jobs...

There are many things we have to think about when we choose jobs. How did you deceide your job???

hi,

Altough I want to write about internship conference that I went to a couple days ago, it would be take long time to write here. So i will write it later after considering about the conference again.

Yesterday, I met an exchange student from a university in US that I went to as an exchange student. I wanted him to talk to me in Japanese as practice, but he just stayed here for two month. So, we talked in English almost all time.

That was first time to speak in English in person since I got to Japan from US. i could still speak English, even though my English is not so good.

I really enjoyed conversation I had with him. In Japan, even in Tokyo, it is not so easy to meet foreigners on streets. there are almost only Japanese lol So, while we were talking in English on street, some people stared at us. For them, Japanese speaking English are kinda unusual...I guess.

He is great person. I want him to know Japan as much as possible. So, I took him to some my good Japanese friends. And I want to take him to some famous places to visit. Through these experiences, I hope he will learn Japanese culture, society, and people.

To go other country is just great experience. Such experinces give many new perspective and broaden our ideas.