- Introduction
On 30th of August 2015, 4 of my friends and I boarded a plane to join the Asean International Mobility Student Exchange Programme 2015 and our host university will be Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology which is located at Tokyo, Japan. Although the name of the programme itself explained that it should be involved between the candidates from the Asean countries, the Japan Government joined this programme to improve the knowledge sharing between Asean countries and Japan.
We were really fortunate to be selected to represent UTM to join this student exchange!
--> from behind-left are James and Luqman. from front-left are Farzana, Adibah and myself. All of us are from Faculty of Chemical Engineering, UTM.
- Place we lived!
We lived at a sharehouse which is located about 40 minutes of train trip away from our university. Although it is a bit far from the university, the price of the sharehouse is reasonable and the facilities are good. The sad thing is we have to travel about 1 hour per trip to go to attend our classes.
--> on the way to university. The Japanese told us that it is normal for them to travel like this every day as the price to rent a room at the downtown could be double or triple compared to our rent for now.
- Orientation
We were well welcomed by the Sensei from TUAT and AIMS buddies that assigned to help us for the starting to live at this land for the next 4 months. The Japaneses are really polite and discipline. Although some of the buddies cannot speak English very well, they are willing to step out their comfort zone to start a conversation with me. I really like the spirit and this is the quality that I hope I can acquire along this exchange, to be brave to walk out form my comfort zone.
--> 5 of us again. We were doing the documents to study and stay at Japan.
---> welcome party! Friends from Japan, Thailand, Indonesia and UTM-MJIIT.
- Common subjects & Seminar
For this month, we will have common subjects for our class rather than our specialize subjects. This is to encourage the interactions between students of different aspect like Engineering, Agriculture, Town Planning, Computer Science, etc. Besides, TUAT also designed a seminar for us that gave us an opportunity to visit the field factory and come out a solution to solve social problem. The Hachioji Seminar's aim is to improve the sustainability of environment.
--> from the left are Fajar (ITB), Takanori (TUAT), me, Kengo (TUAT), Yuki (TUAT), Junya (TUAT), Nisa (UDB). All of us are from different studies and the product that we created is called as HUM-OZONE!
We had fun throughout the seminar and field trip!
~to be continued~