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Saturday. Officially we would have had classes, however we needed the time for organizational matters especially concerning the upcoming days to form groups, assigning local students and managing hotel room. Joram, Sorn and i formed the group Flying Fish, while the girls containing Celine, Pam, Antonia and Maria formed the group Frying Pan. After lunch […]

Today classes started at 10 am again and our lectures was discussing about what our interests are and what we would do in our spare time. In the afternoon calligraphy classes were introduced to us, instead of the previously planned wagashi (candy) making. Calligraphy in general was already hard, but i felt like drawing with

Today, our class started in the dormitory due to an emergency meeting that our teacher had to attend at 10:50. Our class started at 9 am and ended at 10:30 am after which we hung out in our accommodation until we had to move out and meet up again at 1 pm at the university.

For the time period of the exchange program our teacher would stay at the same accomodation as we did. So we all started our first day together by walking to the university. When we arrived, we had to clear some organizational procedures before we could receive the scholarship of 80,000 Yen. This took much longer

The whole day was a mess and to start it off, even before i arrived in Japan troubles started in Vietnam already. At first arriving at Terminal 1 in Hanoi we realized, that that one is for domestic flights exclusively. Finally arriving at Terminal 2, manual check-in is required and apparently a lot of people