from “SINGAPORE” to“SOPHIA”Students enrich their learning and extend their networks throughout the globe.Sophia University offers a wide variety of educational opportunities for students from both Japan and abroad.Here are some stories of students who face challenges daily while having priceless experiences.STUDENTSCONNECTINGWITH THE WORLDimprove quality of life at the residence. For example, we organize welcome parties for new residents, and other fun activities. I think it is invaluable to learn how the sharing of ideas and information can guide cooperation, and also how to cope with time man-agement issues encountered in communal living. Outside of school, I very much enjoy the Japanese countryside where I am surrounded by the beauty of nature.My aspiration is to become a farmer, and towards that, during the summer and other holidays, I work on a farm a few hours outside Tokyo to learn organic farming. I dream of starting a business that offers carefully grown farm products to the wider public while supporting local farming communi-ties. My experience as an LGL, working for and with others, will surely contribute towards such an endeavor.n 2011, I participated in a 10-day volunteer pro-gram offered by my high school to assist recov-ery from the Great East Japan Earthquake of the same year. The hospitality of the local people, who welcomed us with nothing but open arms, despite the overwhelming situation, continues to amaze me to this day. After graduating from high school and spending two years in compulsory military service, I came to Sophia University. What attracted me to the Faculty of Liberal Arts is that all of its courses are offered in English, while I am also able to study Japanese language. After a year and a half, my Japanese prociency improved such that I was eligible to move into the newly built Sophia-Arrupe International Residence where Japanese and for-eign students live together. There I serve as a Living Group Leader (LGL) alongside twenty others. Our responsibility is to ISophia-Arrupe International Residence, where Aaron Ruppli currently lives, opened in April 2019 as Sophia’s second accommodation facility for both international and Japanese students. Just a 15-minute walk from Yotsuya Campus, this new residence allows its residents to enjoy and learn from exposure to cultural diversity that tran-scends nationality, language and religion.BACKGROUNDAaron Ruppli➣ DEPARTMENT: Faculty of Liberal Arts➣ MAJOR: Economics➣ YEAR: Sophomore26Voice
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