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Wonderful Countries Beyond my Imagination

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On September 27th, the extension students visited the WSU. It is a wonderful university in south Spokane!! On last semester, there was also an opportunity visiting another university, which is much larger than WSU, but it was just visiting there. To my pleasure, this time I could talk with a lot of people in WSU. In addition, they were from various countries and I spent the day with two of them who are from China and Saudi Arabia. My dream that I have had since I was a little child is so simple! This is to talk with a lot of people from various countries and just enjoy this conversation!! It seems easy for it to come true, yet actually it is a little difficult because I hardly have opportunities to talk with foreigner. This time, it was delightful experience for me. Through talking with them, I learned their countries and I felt global.

One of them, the guy who are from Saudi Arabia told me some cool things about himself and his country. To my surprise, there are 11people in his family and almost all of them are in different counties now to study its language or just to take a trip. I have never heard of such a wonderful global family!!! I learned this country has a lot of oil, so the government can support some families with that money. Also, he showed me a lot of his pictures. In those pictures, his family was wearing traditional clothes and one of them, his sister got marry recently was wearing a superb wonderful wedding dress!! I was moved by this dress!!! In addition, he showed me the central city which has a lot of high building like Japan. My image of this country was only desert, so my curiosity of that place became bigger!! Someday, I want to visit there. Thanks to him, I could learn in detail about this country.

Also, I learned unknown world of China from Chinese guy. In his picture, he wore clothes like a military clothes. Actually, this clothes was for the military. To learn that　he had the duty to have military training in China was the first time for me. In Japan, this duty is unbelievable because the Constitution of Japan says that the military is not permitted because of World WarⅡ. From his pictures I learned the difference between politics in China and Japan and it was a learning experience for me.

Of course, I know about their countries such as an atmosphere of cities and what kind of race the people are. However, this information is only from TV and it was different to get information between from TV and from person. I can imagine what it is like more from talking to a person than from watching TV.  My wish to talk with a lot more people has become bigger!!  I want to treasure this mind now and continue to improve my English skill!!

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