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Joyful Chatting in Japanese (Japanese) |
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Date/Time : December 14, 7:30 - 8:25, 2006
Japan Time (December 13, 12:45 - 13:25, 2006 Hawaii Time) |
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Teacher Participants : Mr.Toyota, Principal. Mr. Sugimoto <-------------------------------------------------------------------------> Ms. Asato |
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It is a wonderful gift for our students to have shared an enjoyable time with students at Punahou school, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA as it was the first time on our school history. It will be a great memory of their high school life. |
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Sy It was a
tense moment. As soon as Hawaiian students appeared on the screen and said
"Konnichiwa, Hello", conference room was filled with our students' joy
shout. Our students, 10th - 12th grader, were volunteers to join this
wonderful opportunity and Hawaiian students were at Ms. Asato's Japanese class who
were in the 3rd Honors, 10th - 12th grader. She has been having her class get some topics
about Japanese culture by themselves and research for long time.
Since October, we have exchanged with her
class in Japanese and they posted many questions on the BBS. Our two
computer classes, 3-4 and 3-5 who are 12th grader in Computer course,
have answered to their questions, also have
posted their self-introduction on it. We really thought that a lot
of answers made Hawaiian students understand our culture deeply, my
students have replied as much as they can. That
made both of students want to meet each other naturally. Therefore, we had a plan to
do a Video Conference (VC) for them. There is 19 hours of time difference
between Japan and Hawaii and it is always difficult to harmonize the time
for VC. In this time, we matched the time for
their Japanese class. The time, 7:30 - 8:35am Japan time was
very early for our students.
There is no students to come up on that time at our school, so we asked
all students to join this VC. It was a good result and many
students joined us. VC got started by one to one talking and they
were very nervous at first and as talking was going on, they became to
be relaxed and smile on the screen. On question about "Cell phone strap
", both sides students showed their favorite one each other on the
screen. On another thing, one boy at Hawaii side danced and both
students gave him a big hands and cheers together. The
questions were about daily life, music, favorite singers and so on and
they recognized to see common face each other. I was very happy that my
students talked with students directly, who have different culture and at
the same time, I wanted them to speak self-intro by themselves in English
next VC (Written
by Sugimoto, teacher) PS. When my boy student "T" was talking with one girl at Punahou, she said that "you are so cool!" with shy face. All at both sides gave two big hands and joshing. Our "T" was a little bit worried, but he seemed very happy!! |
