The person you see in the above photograph is Kawakado Sayaka. We first met when the university paired us up to go on a trip to Kyoto: several international students were paired with two Japanese students. From there, everyone broke into their teams and the Japanese students lead us around Kyoto, to places they knew [...]
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Bulls Meet World: Host Mother
The person in the above photograph is Sekimoto Tsuneko, the host mother for me while I stayed abroad in Japan. In the photograph, she's celebrating a Japanese holiday, where one eats an uncut role of sushi without speaking. She was the housekeeper in a very gendered Japanese society where despite working a full job, she [...]
Expanding the opportunities in the University of Exeter

Hello everyone! We are currently halfway through our exchange program here in England, and I cannot believe how fast the time flies. However, even though it does pass pretty quickly, I am not wasting a single minute (a little "proud-of-myself" moment)! Tomorrow I am starting something very exciting. The University of Exeter has given some [...]
Exploring the beauty of England

Hello to everyone from rainy England! The weather here has been going up and down sunlight-wise but now it seems like it finally stabilized at the normal cold, gloomy level. It is, however, does not bother me too much as we all know that there cannot be a pure English experience without being cold and [...]