Post 2.2 Community Project

Starting this project has been a little difficult for me. I tried to contact the girl I spoke to that day we went to the english as a second language classroom. I am not sure if I am not reading the e mail correctly or what is going on. So I've e-mailed the other student from Japan that I interviewed that day. I am hoping he will write me back soon. It has been a while since I've e-mailed him so I am going to go to his classroom tomorrow after our class. I hope I see him and that he is not weirded out by me showing up! I am really interested as to what he has to say to some of the questions I have ready to ask him. I can't wait to find out some answers to some questions I am prepared to ask him that I was not able to get in the day we were able to speak. I hope after tomorrow my project will be well on its way!

Community Identity Project

I have decided to explore an exchange students personal Identity for my community identity project. I think it will be more interesting to find out more about someone elses lifestyle I know nothing about, than just learn more about my own community that I already know a lot about. Talking to just two students in the classroom we visited a few days ago intrigued me and made me want to learn more about how different it is for them to be living in Tucson other than where they are from. Some of the things Takashi told me, made me really want to know more. More about his traditions he might have left behind in Japan, or even just about his culture. I have always wanted to visit Japan and I think that spending time with Takashi for this project will seriously expand my knowledge of Japan and help me decide if it is in fact somewhere I would like to seriously visit. During our interview, he also mentioned wanting to be a psychology major. That in itself is interesting to me, but he told me that the reason he didn't study it in Japan, is because the program was extremely new. So I would like to look more in debth about  how different psychology is in Japan compared to here. Im sure Takashi was more interested in studying it here because we have a more developed psychology program. So finding out what is different about it in Japan would be pretty cool. Learning anything about Japan would be cool for me. So that is why I am going to work with Takashi for this assignment.