In this culture exchange project, we communicated with the students at Dickinson College. We had Skype sessions about four times a week with the aim of learning about each other’s culture. Through the Skype sessions, we talked a lot about our college life and learned about what life in the US is like. It was really stimulating for me to exchange opinions with the students who had mutual interests such as to learn other cultures.

After many Skype sessions, we organized the event to introduce what we learned from this exchange project. The event took talk-show style and we discussed with the panelists about the characteristics of each culture, and through the discussion, we promoted better understandings of different cultures.

Not only did we learn more about foreign cultures but also we formed a strong bond of friendship through the project. Even after finishing the project itself, we still keep in touch with the Dickinson students and finally we actually met and guided them around Nagoya. I think this project gave me a precious opportunity to make friends overseas.

by Kaoru N.