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My Personal Experience: My Narrative Experience In Japan

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Japan, a traveling destination rich of mesmerizing popular cultures and soothing natural beauty to everyone, is perceived differently to me as a land of boundless creativity, and a place to harvest the missing aspects of my life.
Studying in Japan was always my dream when I was a student in my country. Now that it has been almost six years since that long-held aspiration was realized by being granted the Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) Scholarship, everything I learned here has been the greatest and the most worthwhile journey. Yet what has left me with the most vivid impression is what I gained accidentally.
My first wave of “accidental” experience started at the beginning of my second year in Japan. After spending a colorful year as a Japanese language student in the fully urbanized Tokyo, I was sent to the National Institute of Technology, Kagawa College (NITKC) in the remote town of Takuma, Kagawa Prefecture. In Takuma, trains only arrived once in an hour. The nearest supermarket from the college was forty minutes away by bike, and the absence of any tourist attractions was nothing to be questioned. Unlike in other universities, the proportion of international students was very small in NITKC. However, setting aside all my loneliness and fear of being isolated, there was perhaps no better place where I could come in touch with the genuine essence of the Japanese society.
Flipping the crisis into an opportunity, I took part in various extracurricular activities,

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