今日まで日本で二週間に住んでいました。これ二週間中にたくさん物事がやりました。これまでに院生と四年生の研究発表を聞いたり、ロータリー米山奨学金の面接特訓をしたり、アパートの家具と必要な物を買ったり、人口知能を予習したり、しました。そしてSIGGRAPHを提出するためにラボメイトと英語と日本語を話したり、英語の論文を直したり、しました。今日本語を上手になるように、毎日練習しています。

As of Monday, February 20th, 2017, I have stayed in Japan for two full weeks. During this time I have done many things but there are still much more to be done. So far I have listened to the graduation presentation of graduate students as well as undergraduate seniors, attended intensive interview training for Rotary Yoneyama scholarship interview (which ended up getting cancelled), bought appliances and furniture for my new apartment, and studied artificial intelligence.

The most important thing I’ve accomplished so far is the SIGGRAPH 2017 submission I did together with other Shirai lab members. The submission took a long time and a lot of communication took place but eventually we got it done.

Currently in order to get better at my Japanese I’m practicing it every single day. It’s not the easiest language there is and switching in between English and Japanese isn’t as easy as some would expect but I’m making some progress. Below are some of the photos I have taken so far since arriving at Japan.