Hello everyone I’m Patrizio, 責任者 from “Group 14 – 海洋資源”. This project has been a great experience, and I was glad I had the opportunity to take part in it. I was able to accomplish what were most of my objectives when I decided to sing up for this stage opportunity. The main reason I decided to participate was the possibility to use the Japanese language as a mean to communicate and exchange ideas on different topics. Doing so I had the feeling I became better in my oral production of Japanese, something that I really strived to do and that was probably the main focus of my experience.

Thanks to my role as a 責任者 I also managed to acquire useful skills as a team leader that will surely help me in my future. I was really happy for the opportunity to cover this role in the project because it gave me chance to discover what it feels like to lead a group in a project, what are the responsibilities and the duties, but also how to adapt to changes and problems that may occur.

In addition to that I was glad we had the chance to discuss many different topics about which we don’t usually talk. I believe it is important to have some “spaces” and “time” in which one can discuss matters such as sustainability in our everyday life. This is something I believe this project was able to achieve, even though sometimes there were language barriers that only made it possible to scrape the surface of some themes.

Another reason I participated in this project was the chance to talk with many people from different backgrounds. Thanks to the many students “From Japan” we were able to share thoughts and ideas about how different issues, or topics are viewed or tackled in other countries. In addition to that I am glad I got to meet many students, not only “From Japan”, with whom I had interesting conversations and confrontation that made me challenge my point of view on many topics, giving me the chance to grow even more on my journey as a student, but also as a person.