My semester at Handai (Osaka University) has started!! The start of the school year in Japan is April to coincide with the blooming of sakura. That’s something I just learned this week! I didn’t get a chance to write about Spring Break earlier, so I’ll make a quick summary now of all the fun stuff that happened! I’ll write a few entries on Spring Break. (^_^)

March 15. Rotary PSC party at Asahi Dry (beer hall) in Umeda. Many scholarship recipients attended, but I was the only Ambassadorial Scholar from America. GSE teams and scholars back in Osaka after studying abroad gave presentations. Some presentations included interesting slideshows!

Mori-san and I sat across from Rotarians from Minoh-City. They have club meetings close to where I live, so I’ll be visiting their club to give a speech some time in the near future. Ben, Cultural Scholar from Austria, was also at my table, but I couldn’t talk to him much since he was quite far away. Sadly, it was Ben’s last Rotary meeting, as his scholarship period was ending.

Several scholars and one or two Rotarians performed! There were classical piano and opera performances. Also, Ben is a professional musician and songwriter, so he wrote an original song for Rotary! He sang about his experiences and it was a great song with meaningful lyrics. For more of Ben’s music, please visit www.benshmusic.com. :D
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