Kanamu

  As a final blog, I will write about my ONU life over the past year. Sadly, as an exchange student, I have to go back to Japan in a few weeks and I will never study in ONU anymore. Everything was new, attractive and exciting to me! First of all, I had a lot of difficulties in classes. I was struggling basically with English. You cannot follow the class if you do not catch what professor says. It sometimes made me frustrated and feel less confident in my English skills. In addition to this, I had a lot of group work or discussion. The English that my classmates spoke was faster and more casual than that of professor. So, I got confused countless times. However, I never gave up. I tried to understand what people said and if I had any problems or issues, I asked them. Once I asked them my difficulty, every one explained me again even by using different words. Thanks to the kindness and help of a lot of people, I think I have improved my English over what it was a year ago. I am s...

  Speaking of influencers, many people would imagine people who have a lot of followers on their social media account. After reading the textbook, however, the notion is wider than I thought. The text book says that an influencer is someone who carries influence over others. They could be anybody such as parents, siblings, professors and friends. What I had thought was social media influencer. There are some levels of social media influencers from nano to mega. My misunderstanding was that this level is determined by the number of followers. In fact, however, Reach will make the difference. Reach means number of people that an influencer can deliver a message to. Other than reach, some more factors will make a good influencer such as credibility, authenticity, and activity and engagement. None of this will feel like a special or obvious idea by any means. Once you become a social media influencer, you can expand the choices of what you want to do. That enables you to promote ...

  We had a great time to have a multicultural fair on April 22 nd . As I wrote in the previous blog, we, Japanese students made ‘karaage’ and ‘yakisoba’, and it took about 4 hours to complete cooking! People who came to the multicultural fair got 3 tickets and they were able to use those tickets. When we counted the tickets after the fair, there were 61 tickets. It means 61 people visited our table and tried to eat Japanese food. I am so glad that lots of people tried different culture, and also I appreciated to come. I was really impressed because some people talked to me in Japanese. I just figure out so much Japanese culture already exists in the U.S. which is not only food, but also some culture. Honestly, I do not even know much about Japanese culture especially traditional music, but at the multicultural fair, somebody played Japanese traditional instrument called koto. I felt like I learned Japanese culture by people from other countries. I also enjoyed another culture as ...