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Exchange Student and World Traveler, Ayaka Sakurai

Countries that Ayaka has been to America, Mexico, Canada, Singapore, Thailand,
New Zealand, France, England, Italy, Australia, Korea, China, and Malaysia!

Traveling from Japan to the United States to become an exchange student, she was
scared to meet new people due to the language barrier. The experience helped her
dive deeper into her interests of traveling and getting to know more cultures
from all around the world.

I got to spend a school year with Ayaka, becoming and remaining a friend of
Ayaka’s has been a great experience! Getting to learn about other cultures has
always been a huge draw for me, more so than getting to travel to see sights.

Episode 42
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this is the dreamers podcast where
dreamers shared their stories to inspire

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you

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now join host Joe Pardo as he interviews
a dreamer who is living their dreams

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welcome to the dreamers podcast I’m your
host Joe Pardo and today I have the

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pleasure of interviewing my friend ayaka
soccer I who is living her dream by

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traveling all over the world

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welcome to the show yaka hi Joe ok

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did that just for the people who don’t
know you’re coming to me live from Japan

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that’s pretty cool i mean it’s it’s not
that early here but it’s it’s getting

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late there

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well why don’t you start by giving some
background about yourself

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I’m yosakoi from japan i was born in
1986 so I’m 20 years old I was grew up

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in Japan and when I was high school
student

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I mean Softsoap more its sophomore i
went to America for X as exchange

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student for one year after that I came
back

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I’m still living in Japan yes so I’m
right now in Japan but you’ve had a lot

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of adventures since then

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yes I 80 countries have you been to I’ve
been to of course America Canada make

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school korea-china em Singapore Thailand
Malaysia Australia New Zealand England

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friends Italy that’s all good

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that’s quite of quite a bit as a yes but
still I want to go to I want to go to

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many countries so what does traveling
mean to you for me

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traveling is to know get other culture
it’s like for me study i really enjoy

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knowing new culture like a special
language engage and their food and their

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clothing

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yes so I really enjoyed to see you
cultures so what what inspires you i

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really enjoy talking with other cultures
people i mean for it with Florida’s and

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even we don’t know like japanese or
their language or maybe English we still

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try to talk and when we can contact with
two other I feel so happy

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and that’s inspires me to visit other
country do you speak any other languages

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other than english and japanese a tiny
tiny beat or korean and chinese because

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i used to have korean chinese boyfriend
haha that’s like huh you lived over in

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