Hello! My name is Yusuke Sakanashi and I am an exchange student from Japan. I decided to take a course on Latin America because while I was studying Spanish in University, I started to have interest in that region, where they speak Spanish and Portuguese. I have never taken a course on Latin America, so I am a beginner in this course. In addition, people in my country is not too exposed to what kind of events are occurring in Latin America because they are not familiar with Japanese and the media does not report anything about them. In the future, I would like to go to one of Latin American countries to learn its culture and language. Although, I am not exposed to any Latin American contents, I am keen to learn them through this class.