The end of a year is always
a scenario like no other. There are so many things that can happen in a short
space of time. We often say that we have time while time makes its mission which
is to consume events. These events follow one another in an order Happiness,
Woe. Sometimes we are so good that we think that this happiness is eternal
knowing that it hides an opposite event. So, it is in relation to the
proportion happiness / misfortune that we define how was our year. In addition,
I would be able to say that the year 2017 was my best year if an event had not
occurred. On March 22, 2017 the world took me a close friend. I saw one of my
most sincere friends leaving. His death was the surprise of my life. What
struck me most was that he left the day when the world celebrate water which is
my field study. On the eve of his death who told me that I will not go to the
water conference I planned to attend, I would not have believed you, but that
was the case. He always said to me, “my brother trust to yourself and reach
your set goals”. Among those goals that I had set for myself was going oversea
to continue my studies on water. Therefore, his disappearance was another
motivation for me. Indeed, after these events I had focused on my goal and
luckily, I reached it. I took a flight for Japan, a country I always wanted to
visit. On September 2nd, 2017 I arrived at Narita airport with a great
motivation: to discover, to learn and to go back to serve my homeland. So
before taking off for Nagasaki I spent a few days in Tokyo for orientation
sessions in order to integrate easily in my new home. Me as well as African
brothers benefiting from the Abe initiative scholarship have learned a lot and
share our customs there. These events were followed by my departure for
Nagasaki to finally begin my new mission as an international student. Nagasaki,
as you know, is one of the most famous cities in Japan because of the events of
1945. If there is one thing I had to confirm it would be the adage that says that
you have to go back to better jump. So, throughout my journey I imagine even
the ruins left by the atomic bomb but to my surprise it was the opposite
because I have seen only beautiful buildings and smiling faces. Before the
beginning of my lectures I had visited some mythical places like the museum of
the atomic bomb. At first doing the classes in a foreign language was not easy,
but over time I adapted a little. Classes were sometimes marked by company-level
tours to get a sense of what the water treatment plants looked like. Several
interesting things happened before the end of the year, such as December 31st.
Thus, during the last day of the year my friends and I went to Suwa Jinja to
celebrate the last moments of 2017. Finally, 2017 was a year rich in mixed
events but after all we must be realistic and try to move forward.
Pictures taken in Suwa jinja on December 31st
Author: Sidy Ka
