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My study tour to Australia 2015

I had a wonderful time and had benefited a lot from my study and stay in Australia. My classes at the University had helped me improved my English skills and learned many things about the culture and society in Australia. Through my home stay life I was able to experience the daily life style of people in Australia which is different from us here in Japan.

First, I will write about what I had learned through the classes in Australia: The classes were, Listening & speaking, reading & writing, culture, team building and drama class. All the classes were very interesting and the teachers were very good and kind. In listening and speaking class we were able to practice speaking a lot and improved our TOEIC listening skills. In reading and writing class we learned the technique for speed reading like skimming and scanning especially in reading magazines and newspapers, then we learned to write our original story, picture book and also to write report for the newspaper, I really enjoyed the classes. Culture class was my favorite because I like learning about different cultures. In this class we were taught about the history, multicultural and life style of the people in Australia especially the Aboriginal people, culture and their teaching. It was very interesting and I've learned a lot from them. In team building class we did many activities that helped us understand each other’s Idea and did things together. I also enjoyed drama class, we had many performances and created our own drama too. In addition, we also had sport class once a week and we were able to enjoy Australian sport like cricket, catch ball and net ball etc.

Second, about my home-stay life: my home-stay family was very good, kind and understanding. I was able to adapt immediately to their life style, may be one of the reason was because my host mother is Indonesian so we had an Asia way of life and food. I was happy because I could go to church with my host mother every Sunday, It was a great opportunity for me to meet new people, to pray together and interact with them. I also joined many other activities with my host mother like, Bible class and sharing, Choir practice, social gathering etc. Therefore, I had many opportunities to meet many other foreigner living or studying in Australia because Australian society is a multicultural society. People from different countries, cultures and religions living together in peace and harmony, I was very much impressed and inspired by this way of life. I think this is what we all should learn to live with other people and culture. The culture festival in Toowoomba helped me experienced the multicultural society in Australia. People in Australia are not caught up just in work but they have time to spent with their family and relax.  

Lastly, about optional tour: I didn't go for many optional tour except Brisbane trip which was very good, we went to the zoo and was able to see many types of Australian animals like, Kangaroo, Koalas, Emus and so on. I also visited many places, parks, an Art gallery close by in Toowoomba. I enjoyed and had great time.

To conclude, I am happy and very pleased that I had been given this opportunity to experience life in another country that had enriched my knowledge not only in English Language but also broaden my thinking and views about the richness of life. I had learned so much from Australia, the people and cultures and I hope that I can make use and share my experience with others. I`m sure it will be useful for my future life and work too. I feel that my expectation and my purpose to opt for this study tour has been fulfill, though I found many differences from what I thought but I was able to adapt and accept what was different and learned from them that had change my way of understanding things and accept them as they are.

I Thank and praise God for His blessings and being with me always:

Thank you so much.