Introduction
Hello!
My name is Avria, I'm from Germany and for the next 9months I am an exchange student in Japan!
I am staying in a japanese hostfamily and I'm going to a japanese senior high school.
I'm taking part in one of the many exchange programs of Youth For Understanding and I'm very grateful for all the support I've gotten so far! [if you're interested in an exchange year yourself I can highly recommend them. For more information visit their website here.]
On this blog I'll be sharing some experiences, thoughts and news about my new life here!
I'm taking part in one of the many exchange programs of Youth For Understanding and I'm very grateful for all the support I've gotten so far! [if you're interested in an exchange year yourself I can highly recommend them. For more information visit their website here.]
On this blog I'll be sharing some experiences, thoughts and news about my new life here!
In case you're wondering: I've only just recently decided to change my blogging language into English, so that's why my earlier posts and my blog title are still in german...
[my blog title kind of translates into: "cultural diver" , which, for me, means something like: to experience a new culture with every inch of your body, all your senses and all your heart! ! ! Let yourself be surrounded by this new, unknown and colorful world!]
This blog is dedicated to my family and friends!
[my blog title kind of translates into: "cultural diver" , which, for me, means something like: to experience a new culture with every inch of your body, all your senses and all your heart! ! ! Let yourself be surrounded by this new, unknown and colorful world!]
This blog is dedicated to my family and friends!
Anyone who likes to get to know more about the daily life of an exchange student in Japan, is also very welcomed to read this blog! Thank you for being interested :-)
My journey started on March 21st 2016 and I've been getting happier and happier here ever since!
The reasons why I've decided to switch my blogging "voice" to english:
1. I'm learning Japanese with an international learning program. Therefore the explanations and grammar instructions of my worksheets are in English. Also I still depend on asking [and saying] a lot in English, due to the fact that in many cases my Japanese is not good enough yet to understand the responses. So all day long I'm surrounded by English and Japanese. I noticed that blogging in German actually became harder for me then to write about my experiences in English.
2. Throughout YFU I already met a lot of students from all around the world and I'd really like my new friends to be able to read my blog, too. Until now they couldn't, of course, because I was posting in German...
3. Even though I'm well aware of the fact that my readers can easily translate my posts into basically any language they like, because of the google translator gadget I've added to my blog, I still don't trust the results. Unfortunately "google" translates word-by-word, which often messes up the sentences and after translation some things don't make any sense anymore. I don't want my friends to get mixed up or confused about the stuff I'm doing, so I'd rather write in English right away.
3. Even though I'm well aware of the fact that my readers can easily translate my posts into basically any language they like, because of the google translator gadget I've added to my blog, I still don't trust the results. Unfortunately "google" translates word-by-word, which often messes up the sentences and after translation some things don't make any sense anymore. I don't want my friends to get mixed up or confused about the stuff I'm doing, so I'd rather write in English right away.
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