Eriko

Meet Eriko

Eriko is a 19 year old Kansai Gaidai sophomore. She’s from Nishinomiya, but moved to Kobe when she was 10. She loves living in Kobe because it’s beautiful, quiet and full of kind people - and when I went to Kobe that’s exactly the impression I got, too.

In Kobe Eriko lives with her mother and grandparents - her grandpaernts live on the ground floor and Eriko lives with her mother on the first floor. However at Kansai Gaidai, Eriko’s staying in the Seminar House to improve her English.

Eriko having fun at the Seminar house

Eriko is always smiling, making jokes and being silly. But she works hard too - she's studied French, Chinese, Korean, German and is fluent in English. Eriko's dream is to work for a fashion company as a visual merchandiser, but she's majoring in German, because she was curious about the language.

Eriko is a really diverse person, her favourite genre of music is Reggae ton,  but her favourite bands are Maroon 5 (Alternative Soft Rock) and Ripslime (a Japanese rap/DJ group)

Eriko's favourite music video by Ripslime is "Scar"

If Eriko won the lottery, she would travel around Japan and the world and see everything there is to see.  she said “I wouldn’t need to go out and shop for things, because I’d go to places and I would want to buy things there. It would have more meaning” - which is something that applies to all of Eriko’s belongings - if it’s just an object that doesn’t have a meaning or a memory then it’s not as valued.

A night out in Osaka

Eriko has been to Canada and England to study and improve her English and is currently applying to study abroad in Europe, hopefully Italy - so she’s also starting to learn basic Italian.

Eriko's study glasses. No joking around when these babies are on.