Beginning of new life:

It is almost five years since I came to Japan. For the first moment, everything was so strange for me and I felt a little bit worry after landing to the Kansai airport. However, just in short time, I started meeting many kind people and they helped me getting familiar to the new environment. It was really nice time for me to enjoy my new life in Japan with my classmates from 13 countries in the Japanese language course. I received a lot of help from my Professor, my Vietnamese friends and classmates that made everything smoothly and easier.

Academic life:

Hiroshima University is very good place to study and do various researches. I changed my major after moving to the university. In the Laboratory of Aquaculture, I concentrate on the genetic research of ayu, one of the most important freshwater fish in Japan with the main purpose of finding genetic markers that can be useful for breeding program.

Social life:

It is interesting to meet many foreign students with different cultures in the Hiroshima University. Higashi-Hiroshima is a peaceful place with the useful transportation system that makes the life here more comfortable. A lot of traditional Japanese culture activities are organized that help foreigners learn much and the relationship with Japanese people become warmer. Like many other groups, Vietnamese students in Hiroshima University are always together and helping each other.

Family:

It takes me a long time to live far from my family and it is quiet hard for me at the beginning. Now I have already got familiar to the life in Japan. My husband had just come to Hiroshima and we will start to build the new life in here.

Taking this chance, I would like to express my thanks to my professors in Hiroshima University and in other places where I had studied, the lab-mates who help me solving my troubles and share the knowledge and experience during my study period.

Thank you!