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It was some years ago yet the memories are still fresh in my head. School life back there was not as easy like some other students. I was one of the luckiest girl and by the grace of God I won a student exchange trip to Yamagata-Japan. It was an exciting moment where I got this opportunity to learn more about this historical country where I once only know the story of Worl War II so many years way back. I don't even know much more than that. But my interest of learning different languages took me beyond my expectations. I am gratefully for this one in a million opportunity in the history of my life. We took off from our wonderful land the home of the beautiful birds of paradise. We were 20 students, young, energetic and full of curiosity. Prepare ourselves to explore the culture and the school life of this country and we are ready to experience a leap into the unknown. We studied for three months before our depature. Everthing about Japan. The climate, food, culture, people, language and lifestyle so we can picture ourselves in such difference and accept the reality to face the world we are heading to. It took us 14 hours by plane to Tokyo our arrival destination and another 6 hours to Yamagata province. We are from the most eastern province of Indonesia called Papua, it was indeed a long distance yet it doesn't exhaust us. We were more exciting to know and experience this journey because we are the selected ones and we are proud of ourselves. We represents our school, our province and country. We are Ambassadors. As we reached Yamagata province, we were divided into different schools in different towns in the province and also divided to our homestay families. I am so lucky that I got three homestay family, two of them are male teachers Mr. Tashiro and Mr. Yoshiro at the school where I am going to and the other one is my classmate Misato. I'm undertaking my studies at Yonezawa Prefecture High School in Yonezawa town. Different families different experiences, different schools also. Starting from home to the school. We spent alot of time in school rather than being at home. Very different in our own home town where we spent only 7 hours at school and the rest of our time at home. I went to school at 7:00 AM and back from school at 7:00 PM. It was exciting at first then it went boring. I was like OMG these people here are very dicipline and focus not like us, we are way back from them. They even type letters without seeing the keyboard in just seconds, they are trained in schools to do things effectively. They have various extra curriculers in school and that was amazing. I love chaligraphy class, though kanji letters are difficult to write but I'm challenged to learn how they use brush and ink to write. It Amazed us alot, something we don't see in our schools at our homes. They enjoy their school life and we are not like them, we enjoy most of our time at home rather than being at school. We are happy spending more time at home with our parents. After school we go home. Dinner's ready at home, I explore the foods like sushi, tenpura and raw fish with wasabi. I love ramen. The chopsticks are very smooth and sometimes I can't eat well because the food I pick would slip out. We go to town on weekends, go to parks, we go picnic, I go to karate class, I wear yukata, kimono. Sometimes it is hard to communicate because we have limited knowledge of the language, by then we are challenge to study hard and study more about the language. It was autumn and we don't have 4 seasons in our home town. I enjoy dry leaves of sakura falling down and the cold wind blowing the leaves away where the climate is ready to change to winter. After all, everything has come to the end. For all those experiencs will always be there in our memories.