CULTURAL EXCHANGE BETWEEN JAPANESE AND SINGAPORE STUDENTS
10/09/08 21:43 Filed in: JET
I
was so tired and sleepy today. I think it’s because I
didn’t sleep properly yesterday night. But everything
went well.
After the last period of lesson, Mr Izumi and Mr Wajima helped me out in the computer lab as I set up the mac and video camera for the video conferencing session.
There was a big tv screen I could connect the PowerBook to but alas couldn’t get the Internet working properly due to the ip address settings. Argh. Good thing was I managed to get the wireless connection working so Mr Wajima suggested to use the teachers room. But I thought it might be noisy. So we moved to a room just across the corridor. No good. The wifi strength can’t reach so far. So the last resort was the teachers room.
There was a slight problem connecting the canon video camera to my mac but luckily it was able to be detected and properly connected ready to go!
We’ve got 3 boys from class 3-3; mr Hashimoto’s home room students. They are very excited to speak face to face with students from Singapore.
I introduced the Japanese teachers of English Mr Izumi and Mr Wajima to Miss Pamela Seet from Singapore.
After that both Japanese and Singapore students introduced themselves to each other.
They asked questions and laughter was all around. Especially when the Singapore students asked “have you eaten durian before?” to which the boys answered they haven’t. So I gave them a durian candy to try.
They did “scissor paper stone” to decide who’ll get to eat the ’smelly’ candy. Both singapore and Japanese students laughed when they saw his reactions! He can’t even swallow!
The girl from Singapore asked if he liked it. The candy still I his mouth and with much difficult he managed to give a thumbs up and utter “it’s nice..” after which he gestured for the tissue paper to spit out the candy on.
The 3 Japanese students asked their Singapore counterparts whether they liked it. They gave a resounding “YES!” the 3 students were shocked and uterred “ehhh!” loudly. Then they said “how could you eat this??” It is stinky!”
HAHAHA
It was really fun. The students as well as the teachers enjoyed themselves.
I’m glad the session went well. No, I think it went great! I believe this experience will give students both in Japan and Singapore the opportunity to interact, share ideas, and basically have a cultural exchange using the English language as a medium of communication. The accessibility of the Internet as well as the ease of use of software like skype which I used is totally indispensable. It enables schools to provide the opportunity for students to meet people around their age from another country when they otherwise would not be able to in their whole lifetime maybe.
Well this session of cultural exchange will be on every Wednesday in this school as long as I’m there and the students in Singapore are not on holiday
After the last period of lesson, Mr Izumi and Mr Wajima helped me out in the computer lab as I set up the mac and video camera for the video conferencing session.
There was a big tv screen I could connect the PowerBook to but alas couldn’t get the Internet working properly due to the ip address settings. Argh. Good thing was I managed to get the wireless connection working so Mr Wajima suggested to use the teachers room. But I thought it might be noisy. So we moved to a room just across the corridor. No good. The wifi strength can’t reach so far. So the last resort was the teachers room.
There was a slight problem connecting the canon video camera to my mac but luckily it was able to be detected and properly connected ready to go!
We’ve got 3 boys from class 3-3; mr Hashimoto’s home room students. They are very excited to speak face to face with students from Singapore.
I introduced the Japanese teachers of English Mr Izumi and Mr Wajima to Miss Pamela Seet from Singapore.
After that both Japanese and Singapore students introduced themselves to each other.
They asked questions and laughter was all around. Especially when the Singapore students asked “have you eaten durian before?” to which the boys answered they haven’t. So I gave them a durian candy to try.
They did “scissor paper stone” to decide who’ll get to eat the ’smelly’ candy. Both singapore and Japanese students laughed when they saw his reactions! He can’t even swallow!
The girl from Singapore asked if he liked it. The candy still I his mouth and with much difficult he managed to give a thumbs up and utter “it’s nice..” after which he gestured for the tissue paper to spit out the candy on.
The 3 Japanese students asked their Singapore counterparts whether they liked it. They gave a resounding “YES!” the 3 students were shocked and uterred “ehhh!” loudly. Then they said “how could you eat this??” It is stinky!”
HAHAHA
It was really fun. The students as well as the teachers enjoyed themselves.
I’m glad the session went well. No, I think it went great! I believe this experience will give students both in Japan and Singapore the opportunity to interact, share ideas, and basically have a cultural exchange using the English language as a medium of communication. The accessibility of the Internet as well as the ease of use of software like skype which I used is totally indispensable. It enables schools to provide the opportunity for students to meet people around their age from another country when they otherwise would not be able to in their whole lifetime maybe.
Well this session of cultural exchange will be on every Wednesday in this school as long as I’m there and the students in Singapore are not on holiday
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