{"id":22077,"date":"2026-03-31T11:39:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/?p=22077"},"modified":"2026-04-01T09:03:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:03:43","slug":"get-by-with-a-little-help-from-my-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/2026\/03\/31\/get-by-with-a-little-help-from-my-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Get by with a little help from my friends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Before coming to Japan for the semester I went on a trip to South Korea and I wanted to share my first experiences outside of America. I\u2019ve always struggled with making friends, but when I started college I decided to try my best to be more extroverted and luckily I made many international friends at Mizzou. Most of these friends were in America for only a semester so I was worried that maybe by the time I got to study abroad they may not care to see me or would have forgotten me entirely. I am delighted to say I was very wrong. Since most of the international students I met were Korean I spent a week there to hangout with them before coming to Japan and seeing my friends there. Thanks to them I had an incredible start to my time abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In America I showed my international friends around the city and when I went to Asia I found these roles reversed. Almost everyday I met with a group of friends who would show me local restaurants and shops, as well as taking me to the best tourist spots. In Korea I went to traditional markets, Seoul tower, many temples, and other beautiful places. A couple of them even helped me go to the doctor when I ate noodles that were too spicy for me to handle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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View from Seoul Tower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Before coming to Japan for the semester I went on a trip to South Korea and I wanted to share my first experiences outside of America. I\u2019ve always struggled with making friends, but when I started college I decided to try my best to be more extroverted and luckily I made many international friends at Mizzou. Most of these friends were in America for only a semester so I was worried that maybe by the time I got to study abroad they may not care to see me or would have forgotten me entirely. I am delighted to say I was very wrong. Since most of the international students I met were Korean I spent a week there to hangout with them before coming to Japan and seeing my friends there. Thanks to them I had an incredible start to my time abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In America I showed my international friends around the city and when I went to Asia I found these roles reversed. Almost everyday I met with a group of friends who would show me local restaurants and shops, as well as taking me to the best tourist spots. In Korea I went to traditional markets, Seoul tower, many temples, and other beautiful places. A couple of them even helped me go to the doctor when I ate noodles that were too spicy for me to handle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Me with the fish I caught\u2026 Sorry \ud83d\ude41<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Since arriving in my dorm I have made new friends, and we see each other almost everyday, go to bars or karaoke and explore the city. There is a singe of pain every now and then of missing my family, pets and friends, but because of everyone I\u2019ve met and spent time with I am adapting to a new culture and environment smoothly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Learn more about this blogger\u2019s study abroad program: Doshisha University<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Before coming to Japan for the semester I went on a trip to South Korea and I wanted to share my first experiences outside of America. I\u2019ve always struggled with making friends, but when I started college I decided to try my best to be more extroverted and luckily I made many international friends at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[199],"class_list":["post-22077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-japan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22108,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22077\/revisions\/22108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}