International Friendship

One unexpected aspect of this experience is getting to meet all the other international students that are taking classes at the Hokkaido University of Education. We actually have met a Linguistics student from the University of Calgary. She was very excited to meet other people from Calgary, after 8 months here in Sapporo. We have also met a couple of people from Alaska, some from Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and some from China. It is a really cool experience for them because they are from all over the world and their common language is Japanese, so they became fluent very quickly. We have also met a lot of Japanese students who are studying English education and are eager to practise their conversation skills with us. All of the students have been so friendly and welcoming to us.

One student invited us to a Charity event that she was a performer in called the Meeting of International Friendship. There was live music and a lot of traditional Japanese and Hawaiian dancing. The costumes were so beautiful and it was so interesting to see all of the different types of dancing.

One of my favourite performances was an Indonesian musical performance. They were playing instruments made of bamboo called angklung. It was so cool.

It is just a multi-cultural love-fest up in here, and I dig it.