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Young Chun
Fireworks, Lanterns and a Giant Buddha
Osaka, Japan, Aug. 20 -- There are now just two weeks left in UCSD’s Pacific Rim Undergraduate Experiences research program, and my fellow PRIME students and myself have been very busy finalizing our summer research. To experience as much of Japan as possible, we are squeezing in as much travel as we can in the few weekends we have left. Since my last dispatch, we went to Japan’s famous Yodogawa Fireworks Festival and walked around Nara, an ancient capital city, where we were greeted by many deer and thousands of beautiful lanterns for the To-kae Light Festival.
The Yodogawa Fireworks, which are launched over the Yodogawa River in Osaka, were truly the experience of a lifetime.
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Young Chun studies at the Cyber Media Center at Osaka University in Japan, home to the world's largest electron microscope.The bioengineering major also is a student in UCSD's Pacific Rim Undergraduate Experiences program. Her team works to create precise 3-D models of muscle cells, known as myocytes.
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Michelle Di Fiore
Koala Bears and the Great Ocean Road
Melbourne, Australia, Aug. 20 -- It is hard to realize that we only have a few weeks left in Melbourne and that soon we will have to say goodbye to the friends that we have made down here. To make sure that we live each moment to the max, our sightseeing and adventures continue. A few weeks ago we took a tour of the Great Ocean Road, which hugs Melbourne’s beautiful coastline for more than 400 kilometers. We left our hotel early in the morning for a day full of windy roads and postcard-perfect scenery.
Our tour guide, Eddie, explained that the Great Ocean Road is known for its three main parts: the Surf Coast, the Green Coast and Shipwreck Coast.
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This summer, Michelle Di Fiore took an 18-hour flight across the Pacific Ocean to Melbourne, Australia, with four other UCSD students. Her research at Monash University involves three computer programs, which calculate the properties of organic molecules and proteins used in drugs. Di Fiore plans to become a doctor.
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Ryan Ferrell
Exploring the Great Wall
Beijing, China, Aug. 6 -- Since the last time I wrote, I've settled into my neighborhood and explored more of China. Last summer, I neglected to visit the Great Wall with UCSD’s Education Abroad Program. I have since been scolded for my neglectful traveling, which ran in complete opposition to this country's popular saying: "bu dao chang cheng, fei hao han:" “if one has not been to the Great Wall, one is not a true man.”
So, I took my first step into manhood just a few weeks ago – on a section of the Great Wall known as Shanhaiguan's First Pass Under Heaven.
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Ryan Ferrell filed his first piece from a seedy Internet café in rural China. The UCSD junior is doing research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in the nation's capital. He is taking part in UCSD's Pacific Rim Undergraduate Experiences program, launched in 2004 with support by the National Science Foundation.
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April Deibert
A Military Coup, a Cyclone,
Conservation Work and a Wonderful Job
Adelaide, Australia, July 16 -- "Why can't you?" A simple question from an Australian friend helped me decide that it was at last my turn to move overseas. I had made many close friends over the years while living in International House and working as an adventure counselor at a ranch in Northern California. Adelaide, in South Australia, seemed like the perfect place to land - not only did I have friends there but it was 180 degrees different from my hometown of San Diego. More
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April Deibert works for Senator Natasha Stott Despoja in Adelaide. Deibert also studies international relations as an exchange student at the University of South Australia.
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