A STORY OF HIS LIFE AS TOLD BY UFOT EKONG, THE AKWA IBOM BORN ACADEMIC CELEBRITY April 2009 at a young age of 19 years, I set off from Nigeria to Japan on a journey to accomplish a goal I had no idea how I was going to achieve. To some unrealistic, to others ambiguous. One thing for sure is I was determined that I had what it takes. After a 23 hours flight, I arrived in Japan, as I enjoyed and admired the bullet trains that took me from Osaka airport to Central Tokyo Shinjuku. I could not but worry about how English was literally not used or spoken by Japanese people. Well, all I did was pray to God. I arrived Tokyo trying to get direction to the Tokai University station, all the Japanese people I approached could not understand English then it struck me, I was in trouble, and the language problem was deeper than I had expected or imagined. After settling down at the international residence 、 my first trip to the supermarket gave me a shocker, the ...
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