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支えてくださっている皆さまへ~パトリックより~

2022年10月4日

ルワンダのプロテスタント人文・社会科学大学(PIASS)より本学に交換留学しているパトリックさん(Patrick Muhirwa)さんより来日のごあいさつが届きました。パトリックさんは2022年度秋学期から2023年度春学期の10か月間、本学で学びます。

パトリックさんは矢崎総業より生活費助成金をいただき、また大学の世界展開力強化事業(アフリカ)より往復渡航費を支援し、日本留学を実現することができました。2023年春学期が終わるまでの10か月間、充実した留学生活が安心して送れるよう、大学の世界展開力強化事業(アフリカ)と共に支えていきます。

以下、パトリックさんからのメッセージです。

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Konnichiwa

Watashi wa Muhirwa Patrick desu, Rwandan, and a student majoring in Peacebuilding and Development in the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at the Protestant Institute of Arts and Social Sciences (PIASS) in the southern part of Rwanda. I love working in teams which has grown from football teams inspirations and group works at school, I like interactions and exchanges because I learn new things and grow.

I am overjoyed to have been given this opportunity to come to Japan as an exchange student at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) and would wish to write this message in Japanese, but my level is still low where currently, I know a few words in Japanese such as "Ohayo-guzaimasu", "Konnichiwa", "Konbawa", "Arigato Guzaimasu", "Sayonara", "Oyasumi", "Genki-desu" and "Doo-itashimashite", and learning Japanese has come on top among my priorities to raise the language ability.

I wish to learn the cultural solutions in Japan's re-construction process, global studies on contemporary issues for gaining lessons to take home and having good knowledge of Japan in the context of language, norms and values, religion, and social interactions. I am very interested to learn different courses, joining available clubs at TUFS as well visiting historical and cultural museums of Japan to grow deeper.

My sincerely gratitude to all people who made my dreams possible. I am deeply grateful to the Inter-University Exchange Project-Africa (IAfP) for taking care of my air-flight tickets, the African Studies Center at TUFS (ASC-TUFS) for the acceptance offer in the learning program. Special and deeper thankful to Yazaki Corporation and the Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) for turning my dreams into reality and making my interests in Japan worthwhile by supporting my life expenses during my stay in Japan.

I would kindly like once again to say "Arigato Guzaimasu" to all my sponsors!

Muhirwa Patrick