Cassidy Alan Schmidt, Academic Year 2013 Participant
Getting involved in student clubs gave me an amazing amount of insight into Japanese college student lifestyle and aided my language acquisition greatly. Not to mention the friends I will never forget.
Kendra Danice Marr, Spring 2013 Participant
It's so hard to pick my favorite part of this program! I loved living in the international dorm and meeting so many new friends from all over the world, and participating in international clubs at my university to meet even more students at my university, and just living in Tokyo overall. Tokyo is an amazing place that words cannot even describe, and I was so lucky to be thrown in with so many cool people to share in the experience.
Isaiah Hastings, Spring 2017 Participant
The location was the best part of the program, both from a language study standpoint and from an experiential standpoint. I also joined a club of people with similar interests at my university, which ended up also being a highlight of the experience. I was the only English-speaker in the group, too, so it became a daily chance to use Japanese conversationally. That pressure was stressful at times, but I feel I gained a lot from it, both in terms of my language skills and the relationships I formed.