http://www.jetprogramme.org/ and an introduction of Buddhist in Japan by a Monk, until visiting to one of a Girls’ High School. The good things I got from each meeting at class is those interesting topics were brought by some guests who gave some awsome informations attractively. Not enough by being a nice student who just sit down and listen the explanation of the guests, but we actively were able to give some questions to them. In other meeting we also had some chance to Discusse about some issues in Japan which are related to preparation of an earth quake, dealing with some weird people around us by forming different discussion group of students where we can share the ideas, feeling and perspective. Because this class is in English, So we can practice conversation in English directly.
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| Mr. Keno Miura, The Buddhist Monk |
Subjectively, Among the topics above, the
most topic that caught my interest is when we visited to one of a Girls’ High School where the location is very near from Shenshu
Park, 10 minutes from Akita Station by
walking. Because from the visiting we can get a lot of informations about some student’s
extracurricuar activities of High School,
including listening their stories
of how
they manage their time to study
and their time to come along with their extracurricular activities. Specially, the extracurricular activity club that we had a chance to see is Akita’s
Traditional dance and folk song Club. Telling about the activity we had there,
First of all we had very attractive
performance of traditional dance and folk song which is performed by the
students, and then we had an experience to touch and feel the music intruments
(Shamisen, Japanese drum), even we could
interact in dancing and singing was guided by girl Students. They demonstrated the dance and tought us how to
do the most simple dance movement “on do
Pa-pa song” together with all Foreign and Japanese Students in the class. The
last was we had the question-Aswer section with them.
As a foreign student it was quite interesting
moment to get involved in dancing and singing directly, interact
to gilrs’ Students. One a student even started the dance since she was a
little kid because she is raised in a family who preserve Akita Culture.
Surprisingly other student testified that she just started playing shamisen ever
since 2 or 3 years ago but she could play shamisen perfectly just like a profesional
Shamisen Player. In the perspective of middle school’s educator’s, it was an excellent change to get to
know how the teacher guide the student to pursue the activity after
school seriously and keep giving the
motivation. visiting the Girls’s high
school feels like diving into the ocean
of experience where I could see, touch, feel, evaluate the other side of
education in Japan. Definitely, through that experience now I can make comparison about the extracurricular activities in in Japan
and in my country, Indonesia. Then
hopefully in the future as a teacher I can apply that kind of the method in Indonesia.
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Last,
during attending this class, we can taste different kind of class activities. But the
moment when we had the opportunity to visit Girls’school is the most fantastic moment that we had ever. Concretely,
among all discussion themes like High School’s extracurricular activities and
education, Japanese culture which we had at the class, almost completely have
been discussed in one activity, that is Visiting a Girls’ High School. Hopefuly for
the next semester of the same class, other students can have the same
opportunity like this more or less.
