DEALING WITH LONELINESS IN A METROPOLIS OF 9 MILLION PEOPLE

This part ist going to be the last installement of my series 'The Other Sides of a Year Abroad" and because I didn't find a good place to divide up the text, I am just going to post everything. This is going to be a very long blog post and you will need some time to get through it. I knew since I was writing the first part that I would like to talk about this topic. However, it was more difficult than I thought it was going to be.

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THE BIAS OF NATIONALITY AND ETHNICITY COMBINED WITH AN INFERIORITY COMPLEX

Introversion and Social Anxiety If you haven't noticed through my former blog posts already, here I am, telling you once again that I'm a really introverted person and sometimes I think that I do have some minor case of social anxiety. After finding people who I became friends with so fast after entering university, I kind of thought that I was miraculously cured.

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DEALING WITH FAILURE, STRESS AND FRUSTRATION

As you probably know, I studied in Tokyo for one year. I can say that it was quite an eventful year and it didn’t really go as expected. I am back in Germany now and I have a lot to say and to talk about, to the point where I don’t even know where to start. Last time I updated my blog, I wrote about the university’s ‘obsession’ with tests and exams. That didn’t change in the second semester.

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PLACEMENT TESTS, LEVEL CHECK TESTS, WEEKLY TESTS, MIDTERM EXAMS AND FINAL EXAMS = KEIO UNIVERSITY – JAPANESE LANGUAGE PROGRAM

University has started once again with the cherry blossom season. You would think that this is the time to go out with friends, to admire the cherry blossoms and to enjoy the warm spring breeze under the bright sunshine.

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LIFE UPDATE: I AM GOING TO JAPAN

This might be a little bit unexpected for some, but as the title says already, I am going to live in Japan for one year starting this Sunday. I didn't want to announce it before I was 100% sure that I was going. I wanted to announce it officially after I arrived in Tokyo ...

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