International education and travel related links, photos, quotes and pieces of interest.
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People Who Studied Abroad #637:
Sean Lennon, musician
From:
United States
Studied:
He attended kindergarten in Japan and later studied at the boarding school Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland.
Here’s an interview with Sean, talking about his time in Japan and his experience with Japanese language and culture:
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People Who Studied Abroad #544:
Mark Halperin, political analyst with Time magazine and MSNBC
From:
United States
Studied:
In the summer of 1982, he lived in Japan as an exchange student with YFU.
Source: imdb.com
![People Who Studied Abroad #543:Jay Rockefeller, U.S. Senator (WV)
From:
United States
Studied:
He studied at Christian University in Tokyo, Japan between 1957 and 1960, then graduated with a B.A. in Far Eastern Languages and History from Harvard University in 1961.
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People Who Studied Abroad #543:
Jay Rockefeller, U.S. Senator (WV)
From:
United States
Studied:
He studied at Christian University in Tokyo, Japan between 1957 and 1960, then graduated with a B.A. in Far Eastern Languages and History from Harvard University in 1961.
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Source: Washington Post
People Who Studied Abroad #529:
Mark Hamill, actor
From:
United States
Studied:
In his junior year of high school, his family moved to Japan, where his father was stationed in the U.S. Navy. He attended Nile C. Kinnick High and was a member of the school’s drama club.
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America: DUMP IT ALL IN THE HARBOR
I went from the US to France and taught my host brother and sister to take their tea with milk in the English style. Confusing.
Source: harmoniousescapades
Post-abroad blues for the softcore traveler
I’ve blogged quite a bit about being in Japan—but I’ve neglected to mention what happens when you come home. Granted, I’ve never been abroad for very long. Six weeks in Germany. Five in Japan. It’s not enough time to get over the “honeymoon” phase of being abroad, to really get integrated into the culture, to be a part of it. I can’t say, then, that I experienced true reverse culture shock—where you feel disoriented in your home country, where you have trouble reconnecting with your old friends, where suddenly it’s harder to live at home than abroad. Regardless, I had a bit of a jolt…
Source: ithinkincomics.wordpress.com
People Who Studied Abroad #495:
Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese political and military leader
From:
China
Studied:
He received army training at the Tokyo Shinbu Gakko (Japan).
![People Who Studied Abroad #472:Ben Nighthorse Campbell, former U.S. senator (Colorado)
From:
United States
Studied:
He spent four years at Meiji University in Tokyo, Japan while training in judo for the 1964 Olympic games.
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People Who Studied Abroad #472:
Ben Nighthorse Campbell, former U.S. senator (Colorado)
From:
United States
Studied:
He spent four years at Meiji University in Tokyo, Japan while training in judo for the 1964 Olympic games.
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People Who Studied Abroad #467:
Carrie Ann Inaba, dancer and Dancing With the Stars judge (and one of the original Fly Girls on In Living Color)
From:
United States
Studied:
After high school, she pursued a music career in Japan for about two years. During that time, she attended Sophia University in Tokyo. She completed her B.A. in world arts and cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles (United States).
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Ideas without a Cause: thing i didn't know, #9 →
or, rather, thing i didn’t do:
set goals. set clear, concrete goals, and don’t worry about how many you have. you’ll probably be overwhelmed by the wealth of opportunities, but the best way to have quality experiences is to have at least a few goals in mind for things you want to accomplish.
i cannot stress enough how important it is to set goals for study abroad…
Goals are really helpful, even if they’re something small!
People Who Studied Abroad #306:
Zhou Enlai, first premier of the People’s Republic of China
From:
China
Studied:
He studied in Japan for two years beginning in 1917, attending the East Asian Higher Preparatory School, a language school for Chinese students. He also traveled to Paris, Berlin and London on a work-study program, but there is no record of him enrolling in a university there.
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People Who Studied Abroad #296:
Agnes Chan, musician, author and academic
From:
Hong Kong (now China)
Studied:
Her singing career brought her to Japan around 1972, and she graduated from The American School in Japan in 1973. She spent two years at Sophia University in Tokyo. Later she took a break from her entertainment career to study social child psychology at the University of Toronto in Canada and also earned a doctorate in Education from Stanford University (United States).
Kokusaijin (Japanese) →
Japanese citizens who are able to get along with foreigners. ‘Cosmopolitan’ is the closest English equivalent, but this word connotes someone who speaks foreign languages and knows a lot about foreign countries and cultures. A Japanese kokusaijin may be an ordinary person with a flexible and open personality.
People Who Studied Abroad #265:
Peer Schneider, co-founder of IGN and Senior Vice President of Content & Publisher at IGN Entertainment
From:
Germany
Studied:
Graduated from Sophia University (Japan) and attended the University of California Berkeley’s (United States) graduate program in journalism.
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The best way to learn Japanese is to be born as a Japanese baby, in Japan, raised by a Japanese family.
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