Just a Small Town Girl, Living in an Scholastic World

Recently, the classmates at Worcester College were shocked at my hometown, playing "stone of paper cut" instead of "scissors", informing that the shopping cart was called "four wheel drive". However, as with the fact that there are fewer than 240 students enrolled in public high schools, there is no more surprising thing. For many, small schools seem to be absurd, and it is difficult for them to understand how I can receive quality education at such schools. What they can not understand is that the school does not need to be a large public school or an elite private school in order to provide students with a future education.

I was in a high school in about 10,000 towns (the center of Oregon), but I received a university basketball scholarship at the University of California, Berkeley. I grew up in a small town and realized the value of diligence and the importance of living in a tightly integrated community. In Berkeley, I learned how much personal and passionate individuals will affect the world. My biggest problem at college was how it contributes to how to create a better world in some way, not by any means. We began to believe that our food system needs to be destroyed by being surrounded by people who are enthusiastic about continuing competition after graduation and being enthusiastic about creating a better life for others. food

The world has changed from what I can not imagine to instantaneous and it is getting very small. Everything comes from a casual encounter between two girls. We are two girls who have never met each other. I am a little girl who grew up in a small town in Minnesota. She is a high school student from Japan who wants to be an exchange student in Australia. Instead, she was sent to the United States 9000 miles away. To a small town in Minnesota. I live in my best friend 's house. To meet her father's intimate business girl