A word from the editor
I designed this homepage, and look forward to hearing from you.
----Norihiko FURUSAWA
A word from the Teachers
Two years have passed since I took charge of this class: English I-2-U
Creative Writing 2001. This scheme was inspired by my own experience: having
stayed in London as a visiting academic for 18 months, I felt the urgent
necessity to present information about ourselves by ourselves in this commercialized
Japanese craze. Pokemon doesn't represent our lives, neither does MUJI.
That's the reason why I suggested to the students of our Creative Writing
class that they should write about their own university life and publish
the description as their self-portraits.
I'm afraid, however, the readers might find some anomalies here and there
on the pages the students created. Not only the contents, but their writing
style also represent culture, according to the definition of culture by
Raymond Williams. I do hope you would enjoy the adventure in their "wonder-ful"
land and find what's really happening to them at Fukushima University.
Anyway, I'm proud of them, as all the students worked very hard for preparing
these self-portraits. ----Midori TSUJI, Professor