Personal Statement

I fell in love with Japanese because of its sounds, and oddly enough, because of the not-so-small number of loan words from English. "Furaido- po-te-to-" was admittedly fun to say as well. It took nearly ten years of in-class studying for me to visit Japan, and I finally did in 2015 as an exchange student at the university I would later graduate from. Most of my friends in college were Japanese, and I have been told I communicate quite naturally. I then went on to work for another 4 years...