To socially engage more in classes; sharing my ideas, asking questions, listening to others etc. (PE, Japanese, Science, Humanities and Drama) I am sometimes shy and not sure if I should answer the teachers questions so I should be a risk-taker and engage more. If I don’t understand a certain topic, review it at home. [...]
This was the last day for our field studies in Hokkaido. We all left the hotel in the morning. The bus ride took around 3 hours. I chatted a lot of with my friends and we looked at the volcano and studied it well. It was sad to be go back to Tokyo. My friends [...]
Areas of interaction: Environment Today my group and I went to Lake Toya to kayake. We had a long bus ride which was around more than an hour. The kayakes were big and long, and it was two people. I paired up with Jennifer and we had very good teamwork. The pedalling was really hard because [...]
Area of interaction: Environment Today was the day were we began to do our activities. Group 1 did kayaking and group 2 (the group I was in) did mountain biking in the morning and river rafting in te afternoon. We mountain biked for around 2 hours, travelling less than 23 km around the Yoteisan. Mountain [...]
Areas of interaction: Environment For our grade 8 field studies, we went to Hokkaido, somewhere a bit different to the other places we went before. We went my plane and it took around 2 hours to get there. I woke up around 5am met some people from my grade at YCAT. The weather was humid [...]
This week we had digital citizenship. I have learnt many things about digital citizenship. One thing that scared me was that on the internet people can see your location and stalk you. For example on instagram, when you post a lot of pictures and when you post a picture of your house and add the [...]
Which piece of advice do think is the best or most effective? I think that the most effective advice from this article is, “Enjoying the present moment is a habit that takes practice”. The reason is, you can’t be happy if you’re not enjoying the moment. By being happy at the present moment, you’ll get [...]
Why is it so easy (maybe fun) to be mean? I think it is easy to be mean because you let out all of our feelings that might hurt other people. When you’re too honest with people, you can hurt them and be mean. even if your not hurting them physically you can hurt them [...]
It was a very good experience for me to be buddies with the Ishinomaki people. I learnt a lot of things from them and I was quite amazed by how they were really cheerful even though they have been through the earthquake and tsunami. Being with the Ishinomaki people didn’t really want me to ask [...]
What did I enjoy? When we went to Hakuba last year, I enjoyed kayaking, hiking, river cleaning (more like exploring the river), mountain biking and rock climbing. River cleaning we were supposed to clean the river, but since there weren’t any rubbish we went exploring the river. Kayaking was fun because we played dodge-ball with [...]
