Hello everyone, My name is Sakura Yoshida but people call me Sakky for short. I’m from Seattle Washington and this is my first year at UO. I was born in Untied States but both of my parents are from Japan so I have been speaking Japanese through out my whole life. I’m interested in learning about the East Asian languages and societies because I have grown up speaking Japanese at home and wanted to learn about things I don’t know yet. I’m also interested in leaning about the cultural differences between Japan, China and Korea. I have not decided what to major in but is really interested in majoring in Japanese so I’m really excited to take this class.

I have not come across any questions at this time as it’s pretty straight forward on CANVAS and in class. I would describe this teaching method of this class as interactive (in class) and self reflecting (reading quiz).  I describe my learning approach as organized and study my notes. In this course I have been doing that, but it is hard because of all the traveling. It is challenging at times because I only know Japanese so Korean and Mandarin is hard.  I prepare my self by been proactive in my learning and showing up and listening to the class as much as possible.

I play on the women’s soccer team here in UO. The picture is my team after we scored a goal. Come check out our game if you guys are interested in soccer! We have many home game coming up against other great school in the Pac 12!