Monday, October 4, 2010
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.
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Wow, going the exchange student route. That's going to be very interesting and I personally am very excited to see the information that you get out of your exchange student. It's funny how you can meet someone from so far away and have a lot in common with them. It is going to be very interesting the information and background of Takashi. Have fun with this project and interviewing him!
ReplyDeleteI agree, Alex. This is going to be very neat. And you're actually one of my only students to choose this option. Way to go, Raquel! I know you'll find out a lot of interesting things about Takashi and his family. Remember to try to limit his experience to a particular town and particular experience. Think about how many different experiences/communities "Americans" have... based on state, occupation, town/city, etc.
ReplyDeleteI realized when I saw you in class that I passed you biking to school this morning. We could've biked alongside one another. Sorry for being unfriendly. I was kind of panicked since I was running late. Way cute pink bike, by the way!