On Culture Week which held on October 12 to 15 and we shared our traditional culture and also different countries culture. On October 12th break and lunch time, my friends and I taught small kids (elementary students in RIST) how to play and fun with the Japanese traditional toys such as Origami, Kendama, Daruma Otoshi, and Otedama. We did so because we wanted to share what our culture is like and wanted them to know about Japanese more. This is the purpose of this sharing. Therefore, I did this as a community service. While we were teaching elementary students Origami, those kids really loved it and they finally made the crane and one of the kids asked us, “How do you guys can make a lot of animals and other stuff from this Origami?” and we answered, “We didn't know it when we were baby, but we know now because we played when we were kids like you guys.” The kid understood and went to somewhere else. My friends and I just laughed each other and were happy to response the kid’s question. This is what happened while we were teaching how to do Origami and how to make a thing. When I looked around, I saw one of my friends were doing Kendama which has red ball with string and we have to put red ball on the thing that we hold and many kids were excited of that.
I believed in that I should response perfectly if someone asked me a question, so I confirmed it in this community service. As I told you before, I taught the kids how to make a crane and answered the question that the kid asked, so it was really good me to complete my belief.
From ESLR’s I learned Caring Global Citizen because I learned how to teach and how to response to small kids if they ask me question, so I felt that I should teach them kindly and use easy words to the elementary students so that they can understand. Therefore, I learned that I should choose who am I talking and depends on that I should change the way I talk. I would do the same thing as what we did in the culture sharing because it was really nice to tell people that how to play the different cultural games or toys and also many children came and wanted to learn something from there. However, I expected more middle school students. I think they also don’t know much about Japanese culture or other countries’ culture, therefore it was good event to have it, but we have to mention to everyone before we’ll do that kind of sharing.
I believed in that I should response perfectly if someone asked me a question, so I confirmed it in this community service. As I told you before, I taught the kids how to make a crane and answered the question that the kid asked, so it was really good me to complete my belief.
From ESLR’s I learned Caring Global Citizen because I learned how to teach and how to response to small kids if they ask me question, so I felt that I should teach them kindly and use easy words to the elementary students so that they can understand. Therefore, I learned that I should choose who am I talking and depends on that I should change the way I talk. I would do the same thing as what we did in the culture sharing because it was really nice to tell people that how to play the different cultural games or toys and also many children came and wanted to learn something from there. However, I expected more middle school students. I think they also don’t know much about Japanese culture or other countries’ culture, therefore it was good event to have it, but we have to mention to everyone before we’ll do that kind of sharing.
You mention that not many middle school students participated. What about high school students? What could have been done to include them?
ReplyDeleteYou mention also that you value responding to the elementary kids when they ask a question. Why do you value this? Is this because older children and adults often ignore little kids?
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