2019年電気化学会秋季大会
(甲府市, 9/5-6, 2019)体験記 (Writer:Hou Xueyan)

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Hello! This is Hou Xueyan, a D1 student in Amezawa Lab.

Thank you for reading this article! I’m so thrilled to share this wonderful experience of my 1st presentation in a formal conference (ECSJ)! (It’s a little embarrassing to say it that I’ve been a Ph.D student for almost 1 year. XD)

First of all, I want to express my deep deep deep gratitude to my supervisor Prof. Amezawa, and Nakamura sensei, Kimura sensei, who generously helped me with my presentation practice for so much. I really got precious suggestions for presentation skills. It’s like I finally cooked acceptable food with some messy disorganized materials.
Then I’d like to share the moment of me on the presentation. For weeks I’ve been imagining what my presentation would be. Would I be too nervous to forget my words, or distort the expression? Would my Chinglish confuse my audiences? Would my poor language overtime my speech? However, all the upset things were gone when I started to deliver my research to audiences. It was such a glorious feeling that I could have the chance to organize my results and deliver them clearly to researchers that might be concerned with the same issue. After my presentation ended, I was extremely expecting the questions, not only because I could tell how clear my presentation was, but also because it’s a rare opportunity to communicate with and learn from other researchers who might inspire me from a different point view.
After the conference, Prof. Amezawa led us around the city. Kofu city in Yamanashi is kind of the first place besides Sendai that I well visited and enjoyed in japan. Prof. Amezawa introduced to me that the city was built 500 years ago by a famous man named Takeda in Sengoku Jidai, the era that all heroes came forth. Mr. Takeda loved the ancient military book wrote by Sunzi (孙子兵法) so much that we can still see the trace of history in the whole city. From the Kofu station to the shrine that memorizes Takeda, the sentence of Kanji came into our sight now and again: 疾如風，徐如林，侵掠如火，不動如山. It means “Swift as wind, gentle as trees, aggressive as fire, stable as mountain” (sorry for my poor translation). Cooooool!

(The famous Japanese writer Dazai sensei is also well-known in China. He used to live in Kofu.)

Besides the cultural and historical merit, this city is also charming for its nature landscape. In the 2 hours’ trip from Tokyo to Kofu, I watched the main tone varied from modern urban view, to vibrant endless mountain. The whole city is also surrounded by green mountains.

(The scenery in front of shrine. The Koi (錦鯉 in Chinese) seemed really happy because they’re fat.)

(All of the trees on street are covered by such plant which I never seen before. It’s a kind of moss symbiotic with the tree in southern area? I guess. Interesting.)

Can’t wait for my next conference!

 

Hou Xueyan