Feature Article About A Travel-8
Review
Zhou Weiwei (Business School, 2nd Year)
Three exchange students, three Japanese students, and myself, wrote articles on “Traveling.” I found common points that impressed the writers about traveling. I organized them into four parts.
- Being surrounded by nature and taking the time off from their busy lives. Faith Evans wrote an article about his time in Korea. She enjoyed visiting famous attraction sites and eating the local foods.
- Experienced the language, the culture, and the customs of other regions as well as of other countries. They had unusual experiences, and crosscultural experiences.
- What the writers have felt or discovered from the experiences above. While Yui Shinohara was studying in South Korea, she had experienced meeting up with the South Korean military service and was able to get in touch with the local residents there. Also, they felt that they should not believe what the mass media broadcasts about the relationship between Korea and Japan.
In Marcus Ekarana and Ruriko Mitsuishi articles wrote about how their experiences of the cross-cultural communications changed them. It brought them a wider field of vision, accepts the different cultures and changed their way of thinking.
- Having wonderful times with their companions.
Seon Hyeri wrote about his family vacation and I wrote about a honeymoon trip with my wife. Both articles gave the understanding of the strong family relationships in Korea and China.
Naoto Oishi article was about a story of his trip in Hungary with his Brazilian friend, who he met while he was studying abroad. Although his money was stolen by a Hungarian woman, they accepted this unpleasant problem and considered it as “buying a good experience with cheap price.” By honestly accepting and being optimistic about this problem, made this trip to be unforgettable.
While I was reading their article, the images of their experiences appeared in my mind, and I felt exactly the same way as the writers have felt while they were writing their articles. It is very difficult to say to do things like what the writer have done, unless they actually travel to certain places and experience many things there. Those experiences, those thoughts, those feelings, that they have gained while traveling are very valuable and, may give clues to your future dreams or goals.
