OPU Students 海外留学レポート
Study Abroad Report from the OPU students

プロフィール（Profile）
氏名（Name） T.U
所属（School） 工学域機械系学類
学年（Grade） 2 回生
留学先（Name of overseas institution）
フランス/トゥール
留学期間 (study abroad period)
８月 26 日出発 9 月 18 日帰国
記入日（Date） 9 月 28 日

留学レポート Study Abroad Report
Firstly, if you think you go studying abroad, I recommend you to do so because in Japan
there are few people who speak in a language in which you want to speak better. The more
frequently you use languages, you can pronounce the words of it. So, if you hope it sincerely,you must be in a situation. It means you cannot use the Japanese so often.
Secondly, it is wrong that you are only in a town of the country whose language you want touse more. For example, you go shopping, visit some places many people come to and so on
and listen to what people want to convey to you because that you go abroad is to practice
your pronunciation.
I could not sleep well before I departed from Japan because I was excited about the first trip
abroad and partly worried of steal so much. After all, I went to bed at 10 o’clock or 11 o’clock,but I got up at 3:40. (I tweeted at this time.) At 5:45, I left my house with my parents andmy father and I took Haruka No.3, the Kansai Airport limited express for Kansai Airport, whichis the last train so that I arrived at 8 o’clock. The members of this study had to arrive at thetime. By the way, my mother returned to our house by car because we went to the station by
car in order to reduce the noise of my suitcase.
After we arrived at the Kansai Airport, the members finished the departure procedure andleft Japan. The flight for 12 hours was too boring for me. There are too many movies andmusic for passengers, but most of all were not what I wanted to watch and listened. After I
return to Japan, I asked my father about this. He answered there is a big gap between hit andmiss. After all, I only just found a Japanese movie and two albums of Utada Hikaru. I heard ofthese songs twice.
After our airplane landed at the CDG airport, we went to Tours by car a man drove who atravel agency reserved this university entrusted arrangement for this study to. Later, eachmember went to each house of their host families. As soon as I arrived at the house of myhost family, we ate dinner with host family and a Japanese woman. She was a student ofInstitute de Touraine, which we went to this stay. I was told by her how I should spend timeafter dinner such as shower and laundry, everyday breakfast and weekends. I usually go tobed at midnight before schooling days, but I was tired and my host family already went to bedat 10 o’clock. So, I followed.

Next morning, I woke up at 6 o’clock in the same way I do in Japan, but people around ourhouse as well as my host family did not turn on their light. I was stunned and I decided towait for an hour in the bed. At 7 o’clock, I got up and ate breakfast and prepared for school.
Only in this day did my host mother bring to the school in her car. After we arrived there, she
told a man of the travel agency something. He said to me. “Your host family was different
from another’s.” He continued, “If you and a person who host family made the mistake for meand school (because the address of any students were registered) had not any problems, itseems good.” In fact, I was told by him that my true host family has a cat before but they did
not! After all, he and school did not complain so they became my true host family.
Every day I went to school I had nothing special, but since the second week, I made friends
with a Korean student. Now sometimes I send e-mail to her. Your experience would bedifferent from where you go, but you might study a language you want to learn in thelanguage. For me, it was so much fun!
After school or on the weekend I walked in the city alone. For example, I saw so muchbuildings the style of which is not in Japan. I went to a few book stores, the Tours station andso on. I wanted to buy some Japanese noels and comics in French because I know about thestory of these books I have read so I can understand the meaning of passages even if I do not
see words I cannot know it. In the station I took so many pictures of trains.
In September 15th, we moved to Paris and I saw la Place de la Concorde, le Arc de Triomphe,
the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty. After 6 o’clock, we were held a party to makefriends with French students who study Japanese and with one of them we ate dinner in a
restaurant while we saw the Eiffel Tower lit up. The others ate ones in another. Next day, I
went to Montmartre and La Défense with a member of this study and a few of them.
However, in September 4th typhoon No.21 came to Japan and the Kansai Airport, where wewere going to arrive in September 18th, could not use so long time. Next morning after 6o’clock -in Japan after 13 o’clock- I sent my record of 1st semester to my mother and ask her
about the typhoon. She was also worried about this.
After all, we flew in the airplane for Taiwan Taoyuan Airport and transfer to another airplanefor Narita Airport because the Kansai Airport Company had decided to cancel the airplane wewould use. In the first flight what we could watch were the same movies and music as thetime we went to France, but a few French music were what I had learned in the class ofInstitute do Touraine so I could listen slightly longer. After the airplane landed the Narita
Airport, we moved to the Haneda Airport to go to the Itami Airport by airplane.
I was very satisfied with this tour because everyday life in Tours was enjoyable. I traveled
abroad for the first time. I could study French in France, a language I wanted to speak well. I
talked with some foreign people. I made friend with some of them. My French is not perfect
but I could know I could speak in it as well as others can understand.
However, since I return to Japan, I was bored partly because I am used to the life in Japan.
In spite of it, I found myself happy. That was because now I prefer conversation in Japanese
to in English and in French and in France there are a slight kind of juices. About the former, it
is only nervous about small talk in foreign languages. The latter, it was Coca Cola, Fanta, Pepsi
Cola and Orangina. Thus, When I came back home, I often drank Calpis, Ramune, Japaneseenergy drink and so on.
One of my teachers in high school said “if studying abroad is for 3 weeks it is not studyingabroad but travel!” However, I went to France and even if I had spoken in Japanese with otherJapanese students in rest time but I had always tried to speak in French with other than them,
I found myself eager to speak more in French than in English! What is more, I became better!