Yurika Tatesawa.I studied at Blackwood High School in Adelaide for one year.When I was little, I loved the idea of going abroad and wanted to go there, but I couldn't take a step further instead had to settle for interacting with foreign people in Japan.1. My rst step to going abroadHowever, when I was in the third grade of junior high school, when I learned about the R course at Chuo High School, I was convinced that if I entered this course, I would be able to take the step. I felt that there were overwhelming opportunities to interact with people from abroad, and that I could learn a lot of culture and communication at the same time.I was eager to apply for the R course without any hesitation in order to be able to play an active part abroad as a ambassador of a foreign country and a global human resource.2. ExpectationBefore studying abroad, I had more expectations and excitement than anxiety, and wanted to go to study abroad sooner. I was lonely with my family and friends for a year, but I was not worried at all. Who will my host family be? Where will I live then? What kind of people will meet there? My expectations were very big. And I was really excited about everything I would experience. Also, I thought that I would be able to make friends with local children immediately for easy reasons because I was Japanese and an international student. Also, I studied English abroad, so I thought that studying abroad would be easy because of preparing for it in class, and it would be okay if I didn’t study.3. Challenging thingAfter arrive, I struggled with English pronunciation anyway. Often, vowel pronunciations were so unique that other people didn’t even know how to properly pronounce the words they knew. That’s why it`s normal for me to ask people to repeat what they said a couple of times, and the difference between the American English and the Australian English was too big and become a problem many times. Even my local friends who thought they could do it right before coming to Australia came to the point where they couldn’t easily do so and even gave up. It was moment when I thought that I could speak in Japanese… and I felt the importance of my native language. Even in class, I always used a translator because I couldn’t understand the pronunciation because of Australian English. At times, when I took classes with Australian students, I couldn’t understand them, I couldn’t hear them, and even though I wanted to ask my teacher, I ended up losing my confidence in my English. As a result, I was afraid to speak English and no longer tried to use English myself. It was around term two that I noticed that the local students were not talking to me. From that time, it began to take classes in earnest with Australian students. I was able to hear English when I entered term two, and I felt somewhat more condent than when I was just beginning. I entered the Australian classes and decided not to be involved with the Japanese, so I made an effort to increase the chances of being involved with local children. Especially in science classes, I got along with the same girl and always stayed together. I was glad to say that I was lonely the next day after I was out of school on an international student excursion, and I enjoyed going to school. Thanks to that girl, my consciousness changed and I became more active in class. The teachers gave me praise, and the evaluation of the assignments increased, which made me very happy. Being aggressive changed my EXCELSIOR vol.2186
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