September 24, 2025 - My First Post!

Hello! My name is Lina, but I prefer to be called Lin. I'm currently 23 years old (will be 24 in October!) and a fourth year student in DHU.

I was born in Japan, but when I was 8, I moved to Syria, my other home country. However, sadly only after 2 years we had to leave because of the political unrest that was happening at the time, and fly over to our neighboring country, Egypt. I had such a fun 2 years there, until my family decided to move to Turkey. And lived in Istanbul until around 4 years ago when I finally decided to study in Japan, after 2 drop outs in Istanbul. (I was not fit to be an engineer nor an architect sadly haha) 

Nowadays, I'm working on my graduation project as I go through a career crisis. But when I'm not doing that, I'm cooking and trying out new recipes. I just really love food in general. When I finally succeed in making a dish that's just the perfect amount of spices and ingredients, it feels so satisfying. I also love going out to eat a lot! And half of my part time job savings are gone for food. It doesn't help that Japan has variety of restaurants and food options. However I have to say, it drives me insane how little spices Japanese people use in their food. Literally spices and herbs are the 70% of what makes food edible, come on. But I digress.

My first attempt at making Dolma, I took some creative liberties

In my free time, I enjoy playing video games and watching animated shows and then watching analysis videos about them. Other than that, I walk around random places in hunt of hidden gens, or when I lose my transportation card in my part time workplace,  conveniently forget cash at home, have a cash card that doesn't work and have to walk 4 hours back to my workplace after I find out to get my transportation card back. 

Fun facts!

Because of the difference between Japanese and Syrian school timings, I never had a 3rd elemntary year.

I used to be friends with a relative of the president when I was in Syria. Kind of a close call considering how much of a blabber I was haha.

Went inside a pyramid once. Was underwhelming.

One of the schools I went to was a scam. The scammer is wanted in Syria because of another fraud but last I heard he escaped to Canada. Thankfully my family was able to fix it, but I almost had to repeat a year because my scores were considered invalid.

I can play the guitar a bit.

That's all!