Reflective Essay: My Journey To Japan

When I was a child, I spent most of my time playing with other kids in my neighbor. Since most of them are boys, so “supermen” and “heroes” are almost the topics we talked and cared about. We watched “Gaoranger” repeatedly, learned how they acted and acted likewise as if we had been real “superheroes”. Through those movies, I was impressed by tall buildings and the modern technology that I had never seen in my hometown. From that time, I always wished that one day I could travel to Japan. As I grew up, I discovered many new things about the world and foreign countries, including Japan. The first thing to know about Japan is that this country usually has to be suffered from natural disaster, more than 70% of Japan surface consists of mountains,

Teaching in this country is about the quality of lessons, not quantity, teachers always use repetition. Math classes in Japan are absolutely different from those in Vietnam, Japanese teachers let students discuss problems and teach each other because “If you teach what you learn, you will remember about 90 percent. If teachers stand at the board and just lecture, through mere listening, the students will retain far less”, said many Japanese. Those facts are so interesting that my dream to go to Japan got even bigger. But these things above are not most of the reasons. I am the first daughter of a normal family, my parents did not have high educations at school and they are not rich. They are sometimes looked down on by some people who are richer than them, who have higher degree than them, but they always try to be optimistic and try their best, sacrifice almost everything they have to give their children (me and my two sisters) the fullest life. All they want is to see us growing up healthily, happily and be helpful. Once incidentally I saw a man pouring scorn on my father, running down him, said bad words about my