Autobiographical Statement

My names are Rentaro Kino from Hamamatsu, Japan. I am twenty-two years old. My hometown, located in between Tokyo and Osaka, is peri-urban and has an amazing rural-urban mix with an organized transportation system and farms. In essence, the weather in Hamamatsu city is similar to that of California, with warm summers and not-so-cold winters. In comparison to the various cities I have visited in Japan (including but not limited to Tokyo and Kyoto), Hamamatsu has been the most habitable to me. My father, who is fifty years old, works at a middle-sized construction firm and my mother, who happens to be of the same age as my dad, is a house maker. As a side job, they also manage a hand-made surfing pants company, whereby customers pick cloth fabric by themselves and make their own surfing pants. The company was born out of my fathers love for surfing. I have two younger sisters; the older of the two being twenty years old and the younger being seventeen years old. Both attend school and live with my parents in Hamamatsu.

My life has largely been eventful and full of invaluable lessons. The experiences I have encountered over time have made me the person...

For ten years, from kindergarten, I was an avid soccer player and was keen on joining a soccer team. However, later on, I came to the realization that my interests were not really in soccer. I was playing soccer to please my father who had all along been a good soccer player and had as a matter of fact been selected to join a high school all-star soccer team. Everybody, including his high school-days friends, expected me to follow in his footsteps. That is exactly how I was initiated into...…California even when others back home were transferring to Universities in Japan. In so doing, I also embraced the English language which I decided to perfect by attending an English Language School called GEOS, located in Costa Mesa. From here I transferred to Orange Coast College (OCC), and then to California State University, Fullerton. Today, I am a more responsible and focused person. Without constant support and supervision from my family, I have also become more independent something I could not have achieved had I stayed in Japan. I now make better-informed decisions and I do not shy away from making my stance on various issues known. I am more motivated and opportunistic that the future will bring even greater successes. The person I am today is basically an amalgamation of all my experiences through childhood to this present day. I am still recreating myself on the basis…