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Hello, my name is Rukaia. I am a Marine biology undergraduate at Tohoku University. I am originally from a city called Homs in West Syria (pronounced “hu-m-s” like the food). When I was six, she moved to Northeast born in Saudi Arabia and attended an international school there. When I was seventeen, I moved to Sendai, Japan to pursue my university education. I am good at making connections and looking at data holistically. I was never a natural performer but I worked hard to get where I am,  and I thrive at amending my weak points.

I did not know any English when am good at looking at things holistically and finding solutions from little sources. I transferred was never a natural performer but I worked hard to an international school, so get where I turned to the collection of oxford classics that my parents kept to study Englisham,   and practiced English always try to reflect and French learning CDs with my siblings on the weekendsadapt.

I did not know any English when I transferred to an international school, so I turned to the collection of oxford classics that my parents kept to study English, and practiced English and French learning CDs with my siblings on the weekends. I made up for the math lessons I missed (for a year I skipped a year in elementary) by training on the Abacus till I became the best in my class. I taught myself learnt the subjects not offered at school - history, philosophy, foreign literature, art, programming- with second-hand books, taking online courses, and watching university lectures.

When I turned seventeen, I moved to Sendai, Japan to pursue my university education. I hubristically assumed the transition from Saudi to Japan would be as easy as moving from Syria to Saudi(I moved to Saudi Permanently at six and I struggled a lot with homesickness ). But back in Saudi, I only had to learn the shallow top of the cultural iceberg, and in Japan, I have to learn the top and the bottom of the cultural iceberg. So I took multiple multicultural lectures offered by the university and read Japanese folklore to understand my new environment. I am still adapting but I feel like a completely different person now.