#1- Introduction

Although it's rather late to start writing a blog, I have decided that it is a good idea nonetheless.

But before explaining that, let me introduce myself a little. My name is Alex, currently 21, and I am a university student from England studying French, German and Japanese. I am now in my 3rd year of my 4 year course, and this means that I have to go on a year abroad to live and learn in the countries where my languages are spoken. Since Septemer I have been in Osaka, Japan, attending Kansai University. After this, in January I will be heading to Strasbourg, France, and while there I will have to organise a summer course at a German univeristy.



True, it is now November, I have missed so many blogging oppurtunities! But I have decided to start blogging for a few reasons; because it would help ease moments of boredom; to rant about silly things like strange customs; to boast about where I am and what I am doing(!); but mostly, because it would be nice to have an account of what I have done to look back on.

So, to help start off, here are some few things about what I am doing. As I said above I am currently an international student at Kansai University, which is is Suita City which is in Osaka. I live in the male dorm and share a room which a Japanese named Tsuyoshi. He is a cool guy, but hardly ever here so I rarely get to speak with him. I am taking 8 classes, 7 is the compulsary number (of classes for international students) but I am also taking an extra normal university class for no credit (i.e. it's for regular Japanese students!). Some of the classes are quite hard, and the others are so easy it's barely a class. To be honest, I have spent most of my time with the Americans and other international students from my dorm so I have fallen into the habit of speaking more english than Japanese, but I am aiming on changing that!



In the following blogs to this one, I will try to recap on the field trips I have been on and where I have visited, and of course provide a few photos !

I also have a youtube channel although I don't really have much time to update it a lot, but it has some older blog videos and some more fun ones.

http://jp.youtube.com/user/6atale Subscribe :)


じゃ、また

Alex