{"id":1933,"date":"2023-08-06T02:44:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T06:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/?p=1933"},"modified":"2023-08-06T02:44:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T06:44:48","slug":"hif-journal-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/summer-2023\/hif-journal-7\/","title":{"rendered":"HIF Journal 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

The weekend after the speech, I spent most of my time gathering the journals, photographs, and videos I had and uploading them to a webpage. I felt that a webpage would make more sense to present the stuff I had than a powerpoint style presentation. However, I had never made a website before, and while Squarespace makes it easier it\u2019s still pretty time consuming. I finished hakodatejazzkissa.com<\/a> and bought the domain name for two months. It\u2019ll still be up for another month I think.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday we presented our results, and I\u2019ll admit that I was kind of burnt out after the book speech I\u2019d made on Friday and the website work over the weekend. My speech was neither as engaging or memorized as I had hoped it would be, but I think people were generally fascinated by the website and I was saved by some great videos I\u2019d taken. Afterwards I really felt a sense of relief. The only difficult things remaining were a lesson test and the final at the end.<\/p>\n

On Friday I had planned to meet a couple of other HIF students as well as students from Hokkaido University of Education and Hakodate Russian University (a \u201ccollege\u201d of maybe 40 people that shares a building with HIF and grants degrees in Russian). I had thought that we would get dinner then go up Mt. Hakodate, but apparently I got the order mixed up because when I got to downtown Hakodate my friend said they were already at the ropeway to ascend the mountain.<\/p>\n

I wandered around downtown Hakodate and frankly worked myself into a pretty bad mood. I later realized that despite the many things I told myself at the time, I was really just nervous about having to talk for a couple hours in Japanese with people my age. When we finally met up for a late dinner, it went just fine. It turns out that I was able to communicate most of the things I wanted to\u2014 a fine accomplishment before the start of our final week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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