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Hyansugi Son (Faculty of Policy Studies, 2nd Year)

  I am involved in an event called gKyotsuh, where people provide a place for exchange students and middle and high school students of Japan to experience Kyotofs culture together. At the event held in January, we practiced calligraphy and offered sweet red bean soup for people to get to know Japanese New Year. There were exchange students who learned the origin of calligraphy for the first time and the Japanese students also took interest. While everyone was doodling on origami paper, the exchange students realized that they couldnft write their names in kanji. Before you knew it, the high school students took out their cell phones and looked up kanjifs that fit best for their name. I thought to myself, gnow this is a cultural exchangeh. They also helped with the order of the strokes during the calligraphy relay, where each person wrote a stroke of a kanji and see which team completes a kanji first. There were people who said that they gained knowledge and that they made new friends. Exchanging information can lead to intercultural understanding and it can trigger people to take interest in other cultures. Though I felt satisfied with the event, I realized that there are many people who want to have an international exchange but there are just not enough places that organize them. I hope to provide more opportunities for international exchanges and for people to have interest in cross-culture.
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