WELCOME
My name is Diana Gomez and this is my Major Portfolio as a Japanese Language & Culture major at California State University of Monterey Bay.
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Since elementary school, my friends would constantly talk about the video games and manga which they loved. For this reason, when I was given the opportunity to learn Japanese my freshman year of high school I took it. All my friends were taking Japanese so I simply thought about how much fun it would be having class with them. I already speak Spanish, so I was excited to learn a language completely different from what I already knew. Each year my interest in Japanese grew and it grew even more so after I was given the opportunity to travel to Japan the summer before my senior year. Having stayed in Japan for 3 weeks and having met many people, the trip was one of the best experiences of my life and it made me desperately want to go back to Japan one day. When it came time to apply for universities, I decided that I wanted to continue studying Japanese even if I was not sure what I wanted to do in the future at that time.
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