School: Columbia Heights Education Campus (CHEC)

Grade: Rising 11^th Grader

Interests: I love history and geography so much.

Career goals: My future career is to be a lawyer, mainly a corporate and business lawyer.

Why I joined the program: My reason for joining this program was not for the main and obvious reason that Japan is known for. I joined because of my love of history and geography, and my eagerness to learn more about Japan, to help me grow and get a better understanding about what this nation truly is. What I’m really looking forward to learning about in this program is to learn about the Japanese students’ own life stories and their own takes on American culture. I hope to see the many similarities between the both of us and even see how well connected we are. My future plan is to continue my studies of Japanese and be able to live or study law abroad and maybe to be a photographer, since I love taking photos of the world, from any angle, because even the littlest thing needs a chance to shine like gold.