This
is an interview having its roots in yesterday that we’d like it
to
include tomorrow’s hope ; it talks about the world as it was before
and as we’d like to be again today.
It
tells about borderless places, travels always possible, and of
realizable dreams. We are publishing it so to explane what the
reality was. So that it could be the same again.
Beyond
the borders of any kind of Erasmus, as well as any kind of
triviality: Nicolo’ Mnfrini, 23 years old- ex parmesan student,
getting the three years graduation in Eastern languages by the
university of Bologna, has chosen Japan for passion and study too and
later for a study tour which is going to become a working opportunity
having a deep sent of future. …
A
way of life coming from far away , just as Nicolo’ is telling us….
“ My
interest towards Japan is rather recent and maybe rather unusal too.
Most
of my fellows with whom I’ve shared my course of study, used to
tell me they had been nourishing interest towards the Western Asian
culture – some of them towords pop culture, others towords some
exotic traditions of countries like China, Corea and ,just Japan..
As
far as I’m concerned, I have been interested in this culture
since I was attending the the secondary school, thanks to videogames
or comics, for instance, but, I’ve considered it as something
abstract, not connected to a special social reality and -above all-
very different from mine.
I
knew I liked videogames and that (for some strange reasons) they came
from this country, called Japan far away from Italy, so many months
or even years before .
So,
It was only at the beginning of the last year at high school, after
my decision of attending a short japanese language which I liked so
much, that I reocurred to the cultural japanese outline with a new
consciousness together with a strong and renewed passion , to such an
extent that I enrolled in Faculty of foreign languages at the
university in Bologna: it’s just there that I could study the
japanese language and culture too in a very deep and complete way.”
-So,
a study routes that we could consider like a casual one...
“ Yes,I
can state so, as- even if it could seem nonsense- to be honest- I
must judge my school route before university uninfluential, both for
my personal groth and for my present academic expertises.
After
5 years spent at the primary school, far from being unforgettable,
and a very good secondary school, I chose the scientific Liceo simply
because I hadn’t got an idea about what I’d like to do in my
future and that one appeared to me like the most balanced choice.
Looking back to the past, I can say it hasn’t been a great idea,
as hindsight ,I’d have decided for something different, I mean an
artistic or linguistic liceo…
While,
the choise for university, as I explaned before, was born from the
discovery towords the japanese language thanks to the course I’ve
attended during the last year at Liceo. Nobody can state that my
carrer has been planned before and this is also for what regards my
present life…
-
“ And after that, the travel To Japan….
“ Yes,
of course, also the idea of this travel happened by chance. I had
already thought about the possibility of this kind of travel, even if
not in real terms. That way, about at the end of last summer, I
decided to leave in order to explore the country (Japan) , to improve
the knowledge of the language as well as the society and, no less
important, to take up towords a possible job right in Japan. I didn’t
turn it over and over for long.
I’ve
planned the travel within a pair of weeks, I’ve chosen the
departure and the coming back dates, I’ve bought the plane tickets
and, at last, I left.
-And
so, the meeting with a reality so different than ours: your
impressions, notes and comparison.
-”
It’s hard for me to describe the impact ( or better the absence of
it) I saw at my arrival in Japan, maybe because, as I kew the
language,this made me feel sure as all I was feeling was a great
excitement for the travel I was going to set on. During all my tavel
and visit , starting from the big metropolis to the most rural
regions of the country,I’ve never experienced the so-called
culure-shock. Stating that the japanese society isn’t so much
different in comparison to ours it’s sure exaggerated , but anyway
I can say that there aren’t extreme differences. “
-What
do you think about difficuties and curiosities for a youg boy coming
from the farthest west?
“ Among
the most common stereotypes concerning the japanese society, what
generaly stands out it’s its narrow towards the other, and I’m
glad to be able to destroy this myth. I think that this impression,
as well as idea, is due to the linguistic barrier that, unluckily,
is still present among Japan and most of the other countries. As far
as I’ve met a great number of people who could speak english, they
are still the minority. Maybe, if I hadn’t know neraly any japanese
words , this country woul have been more unapproachable to me. But
not hostile as japanese kindness as well as hospitality are known
around the world, but anyway amazing…
-“And
what about the reaction of your family and friends?”
“ The
general raction of my family has been of surpise and worry due to
my choice of facing a so long and far travel all by myself. I must
confess I can understand them, though I believe that our world today
is so much linked that ten thousand kilometers aren’t so many as
once … For what concerns my friends, on the contrary, they
consider this was a wonderful opportunity, they showed great
interest as well as a good deal of envy.”
-What
outcomes did
you reach by now and your wishes for the future? “
I
can state it has been an important and useful experience; in addition
to having improved my japanese, I could meet many people and learn a
lot of things belonging to this country. Moreovre, since I’ve found
a job letting me to spend at least an other year in Japan, I can
state I got my cherry on the cake which crowned my adventure and
efforts,: but the most important thing I’ve got is the confirmation
that ,thanks to our care and persevernance, our dreams may become
real. “
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