HOSOKAWA Kotomi | Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University

By participating in FIRST, I was able to learn communication skills, proactivity, and cross-cultural understanding. Communicating with local people who speak a different language was not easy. However, by eating local food and reaching out to the people ourselves, they would talk to us freely and I felt our feelings connect. I was simultaneously also able to feel a different culture. This was my first step in my university life and it has increased my confidence.