Almost one year ago, I, along with 30 other students, began a journey to the Land of the Rising Sun. I alone however, to use my aunt’s words, was ‘returning to the homeland’. Nearly 60 years before...
Living in Sapporo, Japan, Hawkeye staff writer Stephen Cuplin is in month four of his year long exchange student program. Cuplin is currently in the process of changing host families, after unexpected...
Sophomore and Hawkeye staff writer Stephen Cuplin is a now a foreign exchange student, living in Sapporo, Japan. He reflects on his first day of school and life so far away from home.
Second Week, First...
MTHS sophomore and writer for The Hawkeye Stephen Cuplin has began a one year program as a exchange student in Japan. Cuplin is living in Sapporo, on Japan's northern island. He is taking us along...
I was admiring the ocean view from our house on Okinawa when the phone rang. It was my somewhat over-protective father calling to tell me that there was a massive earthquake in Tokyo. My first thought...