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- 7 -*From MU to SDSU1 Tomoko Hidaka 1980－1981 3 Koichi Wakamatsu 1982－19832 Keiko Nakao 1981－1982*No students came from SDSU to MU.San Diego State University (USA)Established in 1897, this state university is located in San Diego, California, USA. Thisis a part of California State University, with the largest number of students of 34,500(as of2006). It is a large-scale university which confers Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoraldegrees in 151 academic fields.＜Reminiscence (2) ～Good days at San Diego State University～＞*Tomoko Hidaka（1980-1981）[now living in Tokyo]I studied at San Diego State University with the Mombusho scholarship. I rememberthat I considered it lucky for me that Mombusho gave the scholarship to two students ofMiyazaki University. I am sure that was the result of the teachers’ efforts. As the offer ofthe scholarship came to me suddenly when I just became a junior student, I had little timeto complete such formalities of study abroad as obtaining a visa. I managed to finish theseformalities just before I left Japan in August. After arriving in America, I stayed at theUeda’s, a good friend of Mr. Butterworth, for one week. One-week stay with the Japanese-America couple made me feel confident. San Diego State University was a mammothuniversity like Nihon University. It had a lot offoreign students, so it did not give us any specialtreatment. In addition, as there lived many Japanese-American people in California, there was no specialtreatment for the students from Japan. That wasrather good for me. I could directly feel the ‘meltingpot,’ with the refugees from Veitnam, Arabian-Americans, the students from Arabian countries,Chinese Americans, the students from Japan, Afro-Americans, Whites, Mexicans, Japanese-Americansand many others. I learned a lot about the Englishlanguage and the difference of sense of value betweenJapan and America in those ten months. *Koichi Wakamatsu（1982-1983）[an English teacher at Takanabe High School]After two senior students (‘sempai’), I got a chance to study at San Diego State Universityfor 10 months from September in 1982. The University, located in the city on the west coastof America, was full of sunshine like Miyazaki with a spacious campus and good facilities.At the beginning, it was very difficult for me to follow the lectures and complete the dailyhomework. But I studied hard, remembering what I had learned at MU. I now look backon it with nostalgia. Experiences of interchange with many students with various kinds ofdream and studying English and other subjects became the asset I could have. As I gotused to the life there, I started enjoying such events as watching the sports games, partiesand music concerts. I was overwhelmed by the large-scale landscape of America whereverI traveled with friends during a long vacation. Many things I experienced in my twentiesin America influenced my course of life. While living in America, the ‘melting pot,’ and