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　I went together with 18 people from a ninth grader to an eleventh grader as a leader with sister Aoki who had me play a big role until Tuesday on also launching this business as a leader on 30th from Sunday, July 21.
  Fukuyama Akenohoshi and biennial interchange business with the school of Saleh are performed for nine years since before I became the principal. At the Great East Japan Earthquake of the year before last, news of the postponement entered at Malaysia and the interchange business was temporary, but has stopped. However, have come last year; from a heart think that might interchange.
  And it became the age to send a visit group from Japan to the Saleh gentingu highland high school (all the members send dormitory life at the coeducation school of 170 people.) from Fukuyama Akenohoshi this year.

 

  I left the school on scuba diving equipments at 6:15 on the morning of Sunday on 11th. It was the first attempt, but was very popular. Anyway, there was security. I was able to board an airplane safely.
  I arrived at the airport of Kuala Lumpur safely on the same day, and I received the hot meeting of the principal and teachers, the student, and this program began. It was homestay until the evening on a day of the beginning and the next day. And a class of the art only for students of the star from the night to the dawn began promptly. For next two days, the participation in class, the children think that the participation would be great in the middle of a class, too. All the meals ate at a place same as students, too. Indian dishes, Chinese food, Malaysia dishes and the taste were thick, and a smell was hard, and it was during a one-third period when I felt that it was that it accepted food culture to say that I accepted cultures.

  And, from the morning on the next day, trip to 3-day training to the Cameron highland that was a Malaysian different summer resort began as a new program of this year. I went out by trailer bus and one scuba diving equipment, privately-owned car of two others in more than 40 people, 18 members of our school from Saleh.

 

  In the Cameron highland, the cultivation of vegetables and a flower, tea and a grape for Asia and the strawberry is performed now by a plantation. It was for the visit training. If it is the same temperature, I can make the same thing with the always same climate throughout the year. For example, I can ship "the chrysanthemums" only in autumn in Japan, but I can cultivate it throughout the year and can ship it in the Cameron Highlands. Therefore it was to ship it to Japan.

 

  I said that all the know-how of the cultivation of vegetables learned from a Japanese farming family. Therefore I was able to feel a very warm heart for a customer from Japan. Of course it was to have learned from Japan about other cultivation. All the vegetables were impressed by being water culture.

 

  It was the plantation of vegetables first to have come. A chrysanthemum and various types of vegetables were planted on the enormous land by the familiar things such as tomato grapes. As for the students, the place to be able to go around on foot turned around, but is the land which, anyway, is very large. I think whether it was not a very valuable experience I ride a truck separately, and to have observed to a chrysanthemum field, a lavender, the rose.

  And the visit of the last plantation was over and after being going to return to the hotel, visited Cameron highland church by the goodwill of the principal of Saleh.

 

  When many people moved as a summer resort, probably the monastery of the Carmelite monastery was built for approximately 100 years, and this Cameron highland did it once concerning the venerable church where a school was built for the children who lived there. A new church was built, but the former church was left and was just to say that the school still brought up many children.

 

  I heard that a couple made Japanese retirement at the age limit was spent in a lot of Malaysia and just knew it. In the Cameron highland of the altitude of this approximately 1,600m above sea level, as for the change, there are none to most temperature very coolly. Because there is not a season such as Japan, in Japan of the climate return only when is good, and say that come to Malaysia in summer when winter heat cold is severe, and live; a Japanese seems to be in this ground more than 100. The prices are low, and a point to be able to live only for a pension enough seems to be popular among Japanese.

 

  "This place was occupied in wartime by the Japan forces, and a church and a school were requisitioned as a hospital by the elderly staff of the school while a visit being over, and coming back to the hotel, and having dinner. In the end of the war, I asked you about several hundred sick and wounded soldiers becoming dead here and "much Malaysia having been slaughtered near here by the Japanese military.".

 

  There can be it, but a lot of having to write that a book is insufficient still more wants to thank God in having been able to come back to all Japan safely first of all.

 

Principal Michiharu Yamaguchi