Submitted by Heather Bianco on the 2019 winter session study abroad program in New Zealand sponsored by the Department of Kinesiology and Applied Physiology… You can watch the Lord of the Rings, you can read every travel guidebook out there, and still nothing will quite prepare you for the breathtaking beauty that is New Zealand. Aside from… Continue Reading New Zealand: Kaitiakitanga – Guardianship
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Akita City, Japan
Submitted by Heather McAdams on the 2015 fall semester study abroad program in Akita, Japan… Within the first week of coming to Japan and moving into Akita International University, me and my fellow international students had already started forming a community. As part of this community, most of us went to spend the day in Akita City during… Continue Reading Akita City, Japan
Breaking the Language Barrier in Japan
Submitted by Brea Harris on the 2016 fall semester exchange program with Seinan Gakuin University in Fukuoka, Japan… I am winding up my third week in Japan and it has been a crazy roller coaster to say the least. The hardest challenge I am facing so far would be the language barrier. You think you’ve studied… Continue Reading Breaking the Language Barrier in Japan
Fireworks in Japan
Submitted by Rachel Savage on the 2016 fall semester study abroad program in Akita, Japan… I went to the firework festival in Omagari with some new friends I’ve made. Fireworks here are so much different than they are in America! In America, we usually have a 10-30 minute show of randomly fired fireworks, with a finale at… Continue Reading Fireworks in Japan
Japanese Kindness
Submitted by Shannon Groth on the 2014 fall semester study abroad program in Akita, Japan… I have been in Japan one month so far, and it has been a wonderful experience. The culture is definitely different from America’s culture, but I have been enjoying so many of the benefits of the kindness afforded to strangers in Japan. From my… Continue Reading Japanese Kindness