Hello! How have you been? As for ICTE students, the last session has started! Finally, we (most Kansai University students) have finished challenging EAP2 !! Hope you are enjoying your classes! UQ students... You seem to have quite a few essay homework... Break a leg!! By the way, I would like to talk about cultural differences that I realized through life with host family and alone trip in Cairns. Are you ready? Here we go!
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| My lovely host family |
First of all, I've lived with such a nice family and I realized some differences. In Japan, in general, husbands are reluctant to help wives, whereas in Australia, it is normal that husbands cook dinner and do housework. With regard to my host family, my great father usually cook delicious dinner for family, although he always comes back to home around 7 pm. Such a good culture... Moreover, when he has holiday, he cleans everywhere in the house. In Japan, it is unlikely to happen. I think he is an extraordinary father. I wanna get married the person like him. lol Japanese men should learn from Australian culture. haha
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| A turtle in Green Island |
Aside from my host family, I went to Cairns alone! I have longed for alone trip in a foreign country for a long time, so I was very excited. Then, I met a lot of awesome people there and surprisingly, I realized that few Japanese people travel alone, while many foreign people are willing to take action by themselves. I met a number of Japanese people, but all of them came with friends or family. On the other hand, many people from other countries came alone. Therefore, it was quite easy for me to make non-Japanese friends!! And I could make a lot of friends and significantly enjoy alone trip!! In addition, it could lead to practice of speaking English. It was an amazing trip. I will definitely do alone trip again!!!
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| Fitzroy Island |
To be honest, there were also heaps of Chinese tourists. And, total 9 Chinese people wrongly recognized me as a Chinese person and they talked to me in Chinese... It was so wired. I've never recognized me as a Chinese before this trip. From my point of view, one of the reasons could be alone. Most Japanese people are usually with someone. Hence, being alone can result in not being Japanese people lol Anyway, I realized some cultural differences through my family and my trip. I'm enjoying the present class very much!! I'll do everything which I wanna do during the rest of my study abroad. You only live once!!! I'll do my best. Thank you for reading.
