Tanks for my new classmate

Posted by Yuka as City Tokyo

It is the third day I am in Tokyo, also the day I anticipated and imagined for a
long time in domestic. The entrance ceremony, interview with my supervisor, meet
some of my new classmates and so on. Although the ceremony is not very
grandiose, I could tell its formality and seriousness and the dedicate
preparation work for the flash 30 minutes.

 From the alma mater to the oration I
could see the educational strengthness of foreign countries in that almost all
of them could speak fluent English and smooth Chinese. Actually, the oration in
Japanese is totally beyond me. As to the English translation, I can got a little
at the initial learn-and-adapt process. So it was a good idea to have bought the
IC recorder for my initial days here. During the ceremony, I found my advisor,
Amako Satoshi, who will give me academic guidance or maybe life direction (I
hope) for the following three years to come. I feel excited to see him, also I
felt nervous and anxious for my weakness in my research fields here. After all I
am grateful for his willingness of accepting me as his PhD student. And I do
hope to bring him honour, not letting him feel regretful for his hard choice.
How to say, through the photo I saw on the application materials I imagined him
to be a stringent and cold professor, just like the Japanese soldier we often
see in TV show related to anti-Japanese War. But in accordance with the
interview call he gave to me, I began to infer him as an amiable personal in
that he talked with me in Chinese. And the reality revealed that he is like an
old shoe, with clemency, laughers and a little unimaginable humour. But now I
still dare not to communicate with him bravely.

I will try my best to exchange
my view and emotion with him gradually in that his academic work have moved and
touched me when I started to learn about him and his excellent works as to the
Sino-Japan relations. Actually, he is a famous Chinese-known in Japan. I ‘d like
to set him as my example to follow , to recreate too, certainly as far as the
study is concerned.

After all these things happen in this day, I can surely
reach the conclusion of my extremely busy, painstaking and tense 36 mouths in
Waseda and Tokyo. It is really a challengable study work here. Now I have no
choice but to accept the reality and do as the Romans do. No time is available
for waste at the time of my youth time and enough energy could be exhausted. In
that I have reminded myself early of the tough road ahead long before. And I
think it is my responsibility to cherish such hard-won chance granted by the
fate to extend and develop my life here, then do good things to the society and
the people who accompany me to date. I heartfelt say thanks to the society that
create the ambiance for me to make dreams, to tell me to fight, to unfold them
one by one. Nothing could become the return with the exception of my continuing
humble attitude, lasting assiduous work and peaceful mind state. I guess all of
these merits would give me a hand to find my suitable position in the big big
world. I can. And I am convinced of one coming day I taste the pumpkin sweet
through my sweat and tear. You know, I am a woman still prone to shedding tears.
That’s why I feel shy.

By the way, I have had the La-me in Japan. How to
say, maybe delectable.. Tanks for my new classmate.