What can be said about my CIP for this semester? First, perhaps I should\u2019ve more prudent in my selection. In doing so I joined a soccer club called Afini at Kyoto University. Perhaps two misconceptions led this to be a less than enjoyable experience. First, while the members were extremely nice, I had not played soccer at all regularly since elementary school, thus my skills were severely lacking in comparison to most of the members, almost all of whom had been playing soccer since a young age. It also seemed that the level of competition\u00a0in which they were engage in was of a more competative nature,\u00a0not at all like the intramural club sports that I’ve participated\u00a0in back in the US.\u00a0I had also anticipated that\u00a0at least some\u00a0part of the three hour practices would be devoted to working out.\u00a0instead the\u00a0entirety of the practices was devoted\u00a0solely to soccer drills and a scrimmage.\u00a0Also having an afternoon class right after practice impaired my ability to social more with the other soccer members as they would often go out to eat together when practice ended. The result of these two factors left me with a feeling that I accomplished little in attempting to mesh into the folds of Japanese society.<\/p>\n
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However, this past Tuesday I\u00a0recently participated in an\u00a0English speaking\u00a0circle called Klexon at the Kyoto Wings center. The premise of the\u00a0groups allows for a setting in which Japanese who want to practice speaking English can have the ability to do so. They are helped by volunteers who come to the event that takes places every tuesday evening. I found the Klexon meeting to be quite enjoyable as it was nice to speak\u00a0with and learn about people’s reasons for wanting to become proficient in English in an informal setting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What can be said about my CIP for this semester? First, perhaps I should\u2019ve more prudent in my selection. In d … \u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080