Do Your Usual Work Wherever You Like—Revitalizing the Whole of Japan through Teleworking
- Yuri Tazawa
- (CEO, Y's Staff Corporation President, Telework Management Inc.)
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The "Accomplishments" I Achieved at Sophia University
As a high school student I dreamed of becoming an English teacher. The reason was very straightforward, actually. I really admired my English teacher, so I thought of as many questions as possible with the sole purpose of talking to the teacher, and as a result my grade improved along with it, so I came to enjoy studying English.
I wanted to go and live in Tokyo at least once, and if possible I wanted to study another foreign language in addition to English—a language that other people didn't learn. When I looked into it, I found Spanish was spoken in up to 20 countries, and was said to be easy to pronounce, even for Japanese. So I selected Sophia University's Department of Hispanic Studies as my first choice for university. To be honest it was quite a stretch for me, but luckily I won a place.
The campus was in the middle of the city and was very cosmopolitan: the students around me spoke English fluently and their clothes were sophisticated. Coming from Nara as I did, it was a real culture shock. But I would never have encountered this new culture if I hadn't taken the plunge and left my home town. Partly because it was a catholic university, many of the teachers and students seemed pure-hearted and trustworthy, and the small size of the university meant that it was possible to get to know everybody really well. I think I was lucky to have an experience I couldn't have had at another university. (276 words)
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