The GP Project Director, Aya Kawakami, received a message from Professor Akiko Meguro, a professor of Japanese at Dickinson College, requesting opportunities for students in her Japanese classes to chat via Skype with our GP students about student life at Nanzan University and Nagoya and have an opportunity to practice Japanese. After much discussion, it was decided that it would be a mutual, cross cultural exchange. Our students would research college life at Dickinson and the talks would be half in English and half in Japanese. For many of the students who participated in this project, it was the first time for them to use the technology of Skype. The wide possibilities for using for Skype was extremely eye opening to the students and they were thrilled that they could speak “face to face” (screen to screen) with students on the other side of the globe. The talks were conducted at school and after school at their homes and our students began to develop their research to focus on researching the causes for the differences in how independent university students are in America and Japan. As the GP program is about effective expression of ideas, the GP students decided to create an event sharing the results of their research. After much discussion as to the most effective format for this event, the students decided on creating a live talk show style event with the Dickinson Project members as the main speakers, and a panel of Eibei students and professors. The panel of students was from varied years and backgrounds and the discussion was lively and very interactive. The students later spoke of how the discussion helped them to feel that their progress as students and global citizens was in their own hands and that they had to motivate themselves and each other to truly develop.