{"id":4721,"date":"2017-07-18T10:43:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T00:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/qut-exchange-students\/?p=4721"},"modified":"2017-07-18T10:43:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T00:43:29","slug":"meeting-new-japanese-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/gone-global\/2017\/07\/18\/meeting-new-japanese-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting New Japanese Friends!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey there, it\u2019s me again \u2013 live from Tokyo! The past week has been an absolute blast at our internship; all six QUT students are absolutely loving our time in Japan (for some context about our trip, feel free to read more here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The company we\u2019re on our program with (Mitsui & Co., one of the largest general trading organisations globally) has organised many awesome events and sessions for us, students, to participate in. We\u2019ve had some incredible visits so far to museums, traditional Japanese restaurants, and a lot more.<\/p>\n

However, a few days ago, we had a very special visit. On Thursday 29 of June, we had twelve students from the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies come along to our building and chat with us about life and education here. They were all studying a degree based on Oceanic relations (think trade, but specifically in the Indo-Pacific region), which I thought was super cool.<\/p>\n

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We started off our morning with some very simple icebreakers, such as playing \u2018human bingo\u2019 (long story short \u2013 you write down things like your favourite food or favourite movie, and have to find other people in the room that have written the same thing to \u2018bingo\u2019) and making marshmallow towers out of spaghetti pasta.<\/p>\n

However, we then transitioned to what\u2019s called a \u2018World Caf\u00e9\u2019 set up. Three round table discussions were had based on three different themes:<\/p>\n