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Exchange Student Life (2)

Hi again! Sorry I've been losing my mood for writing in the past few days while actually I really want to. So in this post I will try to make a  brief story about my first week at Shinshu University. And yeah I did go to the orientation day and met some of the staffs already on Monday. My first day started very early in the morning, which was 07:10 AM (GMT +9). Guess what it was! JOURNAL CLUB!!!! Gosh, I tried so hard not to fall asleep. They spoke in Japanese and thankfully the journal was in English. After that I spent my whole day at the OR (Operating Room). I'm not sure what was the first case but the second one was Cubital Tunnel Syndrome et causa ganglion. The woman got a severe nerve palsy in her hand because the ganglion compressed the ulnar nerve, making it swollen. It was performed by Uchiyama sensei. He was really good in English. Worked at Mayo Clinic years ago. He asked so many things about anatomy and I was pretty much stupid about it. Damn! The doctors in ha...

Exchange Student Life (1)

It's been awhile again, huh? So, actually right now I'm writing from another country. Guess what? I'm finally in Japan. It's been a very long time since I wanted to live here and finally this dream comes true. I currently have stayed in Japan for almost three weeks and I got another one week left. So, I arrived in Japan at July 3rd. It was my first time to come to Japan and honestly I don't know a thing about Japanese language. I've heard so much that the Japanese people are mostly bad in English and guess what? I traveled alone. Totally on my own. To avoid so many obstacles of language barrier, yeah, I browsed some information about the transportation to get to my destination which is quite far from Tokyo. So, I managed to arrive in Shinjuku station safely. And by the way, the fee of the train (even it's not the Shinkansen) is very expensive compared to Indonesia. So, yeah, I took the cheapest one to get to Shinjuku. Before that, I bought a pre...