“The days I spent in Moravian College were meaningful to me as I could study what I wanted to study and I could improve myself. I’ve been interested in the food bank system since I was a teenager and I wanted to study it during my undergraduate years. I also wanted to do research to figure out why food banks are not popular in Japan and how to get them popular , so I decided to take humanities classes in GLAP and take science classes at Moravian. I majored in Environmental Studies at Moravian College and took lasses such as environmental economics and public health, that I was able to have chances to think about the fundamental problems of poverty and disparities around the world. I also learned how local governments or communities work to reduce these disparities or contribute to society in these classes. It was interesting that I could get a new insight into what I didn’t know . Living in a country that I didn’t know well was harder than I had expected. There were some unexpected events when I traveled with my friends or traveled alone. For me, who lived with my family until I came to Moravian, it was the first time to do everything myself. I think I learned how to deal with what　happened to me or overcome the situations, and I realized that what I took for granted was not the norm. Also, I w as able t o experience the difficulty of sharing my opinions and thoughts with friends from different cultures, and the joy when I made myself understood. Through what I learned during my study abroad, I was able to set the goal of getting a job that can contribute to the administrations and the communities as well as improve my problem-solving skills. After graduating, I will start working at a consulting firm where I can do both.（Graduated March 2022）
*as of the time of this interview”