Hello! First, do you know what day February 4 was? Yes, Super Bowl!! It's said as the third biggest championship in the world despite of being held with teams from United States only! (First is Olympic and Second is World Cup, actually) Unfortunately, I don't have...
Hello, We almost finished second class week at SFSU. Once classes start, the campus get full of students and very busy and lively. Today, I'd like to talk about an important feature of SF state that I find in this week. That is ...
People scream during earthquakes. They shout helpful things like ‘Earthquake’, and ‘Oh God’ between intermittent breaks for general shrieking. I would not have been able to tell you this until moving to San Francisco, having lived on the small island that is the United Kingdom...
Hello! I'm J-1 exchange program student from Japan. I'm going to introduce a part of my life in San Francisco. Hope it would be helpful for you. :) About a month ago, I prepared everything beforehand in Japan. Cosmetics, soap, stationary goods, clothes and even some RICE...
Back home the prices for housing are much cheaper and thereby the majority of the students lives alone in their own apartments, which was a change I directly needed to adjust to when I got here. From living in my small cute apartment which is very...
My friend Beth told me she cries on planes. ‘Cries’ may not even be the correct word. Sobs would probably be more fitting; full-frontal, unapologetic convulsions of tears. She painted this horror-filled image of her red-eyed and snotty, leaning into fellow passengers for moral support,...
One of the things I’ve loved most about my stay here has been my classes. I am such a nerd, I know, and I love it! Back home I attend journalism school, and almost all of the stuff we do is journalism. I’ve had very...
A lot of things change in your life when you go on exchange, a lot of new people and places enter your life and if you’re a kinda sensitive person life myself, that can be challenging. I’ve already talked about the whole “sharing a room”...
One of the things that I KNEW was gonna happen, when I went on exchange, is that I was going to miss my friends and family back home. And sure thing, it did. Back home I was used to having a big community of radical,...
Eating in San Francisco has seriously taken a toll on my savings. Just kidding, but not really. Before going here I really didn’t anticipate me spending so much money on food, because I am usually quite frugal with my money, but I have definitely done...