Jato, an exchange student from PIASS, discovered Tokyo as follows.

Jato's diary (April - August 2022)

April

After arriving in Japan and spending some few days, on Monday 11th April, Paul and I wanted to visit a place we used to see online called Akihabara, which is far from TUFS and we had to take a ride on the bicycle which we started at about 12 noon and got the place by 3:30 Pm and we had to move around and could not locate a place we saw online when trying to check our screen shot of the google map we had at home because we could only have connection in the room. A woman of close to 70s came to us and asked "are you guys looking for something?" We said yes. She then gave the direction the place. It was a surprise to me because most of the Japanese only mind their business. I was really impressed by her assistance. Then when coming back we missed our way around the Tokyo station we had to ask some guys to show us the way leading to where we came from and we spent more than one hour at that spot since we had no mobile data. When it was around 10pm we mat a young man, who could share his mobile for us to use google map to find our home. And finally, it was the police who had to lead us home that day where we got home at 3am.

Having the opportunity to attend this exchange program at TUFS has been a great learning process for me, where I have to meet with people from different countries with different cultural background. Since from day one, we had a warm welcome from the airport which made me feel at home.

Then on the 15th April 2022 one our good friend Miyata Hidetora took us out for a dinner and we had some Japanese food and drinks. We had a great chat with him about life in Japan and we shared with him about life in PIASS and Rwanda since he will be going for the exchange program. He was interested to know about the school program of PIASS.

For the spring most of my courses were online due to the covid 19, I had a lot of