2016年3月5日土曜日

Do you have this charity calender for Japan at home?

The Nichigo Junior Project is designed to invite high school students, who experienced the Tohoku Region Pacific Caost Earthquake in Iwate 5 years ago, to Melbourne every summer. The project is funded by the profit and donations made by this charity calender.
Flower will bloom will support this project by donating proceeds from this benefit concert on 11th March 2016.
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In 2014, six Year 9 students visited Melbourne for 10days from August, and studied at Parkdale Secondary College located in the south of Melbourn. During their visit, they stayed with host families and enjoyed sightseeing.
Before introducing studends comment, we would lie to introduce the comment from Hisashi Sugawara, tour leander in 2014.
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As tour leader accompanying the students, in all honesty my first thought was envy towards the students. If only I could have had this type of experience at the young age of these students, being able to travel overseas, studying language through direct experience speaking English with native speakers, seeing and hearing things that are all new experiences resonating straight to the heart. As someone who grew up in the countryside, even going to Tokyo was thrilling, and when I think that this remained so even quite late into adulthood, it seems a distant age from now…..
First, our students were steady. Without hesitation they calmly accepted the reality in front of them and responded true to themselves. Whether you call it the prerogative of youth, or call it being fearless, they were confident about what they knew, and didn’t worry about what they didn’t know, facing up to their bared selves.
Second, the students were strongly aware of their own identity, and clear about their purpose for participating in this Project. Accordingly, they were clear about increasing their future awareness and desire for learning, strong in their desire to put this experience to good use in advancing their future.
Third, the students steadily increased their determination to not simply see their disaster experience, including returning to living in temporary housing, as purely negative, but to accept their current reality as a step on the way to a better future.
Fourth, the students greatly appreciated and expressed their deepest thanks for the many people in Japan and overseas who planned and supported the Nichigo Junior Project.
I also wish to express my own sincere gratitude for the marvelous concept ‘From Traumatic Disease to Dramatic Growth in Australia’ and the many people supporting the Nichigo Junior Project.


 

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