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Miranda

Miranda Aisha Putri, who is called Miranda by her teachers and friends, is currently an undergraduate student studying in the Community and Regional Policy Studies (CRPS) major in the College of Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University. She was born and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia, where she had lived for the first eighteen years of her life prior to moving to Japan. She is currently based in Ibaraki, Osaka. When she is not studying or working on her classwork, you can find her reading books, drinking coffee, watching movies, trying to write, or taking pictures with her camera. - Enrolled in Fall 2017

Capturing My Way Out of Homesickness

Posted by Miranda on May 15, 2020 9:48:05 AM

Moving to a new city is an adjustment for everyone, especially if you’re doing it for the first time. In this article, Miranda, a third year CRPS undergraduate student studying shares her experience of adjusting to her new life in Japan and how she uses that time to discover her newfound hobby; photography. From what was supposed to be a distracting photo hunt, grew a curiosity leading to one of her current favorite pastimes. Through this article, she wishes to share that keeping yourself occupied during the early adjustment period is important and it might lead to new exciting discoveries as you start your life in a new place.

Topics: OIC, Japan, CRPS, Photography, New Life

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