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Record - of the sister school tie-up with "New Zealand traveler's diary" -Villa Maria College
2015-04-11
 The teacher in charge of the international exchange of the handbill Maria college (private junior high school, high school school) which said that Catholic sisters called coordinator and Tony called Hirai founded it through entrance examination public information in June of the last year, the school of us of Fukuyama was visited. While hear a story; with the school this in a heart if could cooperate, a thought to have possibilities to interchange different from the conventional school again has been laid.
  The business partner of Canada was a Protestant school. If anything, Malaysia was a school of Islam origin. With the somehow Catholic school was thinking whether could not cooperate, but it was the conventional situation that it was very difficult to look for such a school.
  However, I thought about influencing not only the school excursion but also studying in short term ahead when a situation and cases not to be able to go for a school excursion in Canada happened. I was anxious about having nothing while feeling that this and that and world situation changed. After talking about the tie-up with the new school with a director after a visit of this school of June from a handbill Maria college was over, and talking with the secretariat, I decided that I cooperated decisively as it was to say that there was still the support from the country. I had the so small place asked F teacher and squeeze up. Therefore I had you finish it only at the signing ceremony if you went by one of departure. I am thanking you really heartily now even if I look back.
  It took one hour 20 minutes from Okayama to an airport of Inchon of Korea. I was thinking about transferring from there, and arriving at greatest city Oakland of New Zealand on the day, but six hours were kept waiting by that transit (transfer) what. I was really free, but was able to spend time thanks to F teacher happily. I was able to finally board an airplane in the evening. Then it was a 11-hour flight. It was 8:00 a.m. on the next day that I arrived. An asked person came to pick you up from the travel agency and was able to hear a New Zealand story for nearly one hour.
  The New Zealand seems to be the area that an area added Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu except Japanese Hokkaido to. However, I did the population concerning more than 4 million people same as population of Yokohama-shi. Because forestry, agriculture, fishery and sightseeing are the center, and the industry does not have a main company, mean yearly income does not seem to be rich at all for around 4 million yen for Japanese Yen.
  The agriculture is prosperous, and several times of the total population seems to need the number of sheep. I kept a cow, a horse, a deer other than a sheep and heard that I exported mutton, beef, venison now.
  I sent many human beings, capital so that China helped increase of the population and imported many farm products into China again, and it was said that the New Zealand would not manage it economically if China capital was just raised by China.
Both Oakland and Christchurch were safe, and the peace and order seemed to be considerably good.
When several ticketing machine was put in the place called the kiosk, and interesting one put the paper which it was written on to have been made a reservation, it was that a label and an airline ticket to bring in the baggage came out. All the domestic airlines were convenient in the meaning that might not have to line up that it could happen.
  New Zealand dollar was usable afterward, but even one cup of coffee experienced that it was the card society that could pay the difference by a card in one week. In a sense I think whether you are safe.
  New Zealand is the island where the Maori which is a native family lived in, but is the country where the U.K. emigrated to as a colony. But it was felt that I valued the human rights of this Maori more than anywhere else. I was able to see what there was a channel of the mauri word for Maoris, and TV broadcasted all day at a hotel.
I flew to Christchurch from Oakland for one hour 20 minutes (the same as time from Okayama to Inchon Airport of Korea). The person of mauri did not seem to live in Christchurch in a population of approximately 500,000 people after the cold season, too. But, in the town, it seems to hardly snow in winter. When I visited the New Zealand, the season was the time of the early fall, but I heard the chirping of cicada in the day and was full of the voices of the insect at night. And it said that north wind was cold in the Northern Hemisphere, but it was fresh surprise that south wind was cold in the Southern Hemisphere.
  Anyway, it was the coeducational school which only 20 kilos left from the center of the town after I arrived in Christchurch on 24th, but observed RANGIORA NEW LIFE SCHOOL (a Protestant school). It was big and abnormally met an athletic ground and spirited students covered with a lawn. After all the atmosphere seemed to have an atmosphere same as a school in Canadian RCA. In the evening, I came back to the center of Christchurch and visited the center to tell to have caused many victims by an earthquake.
  At first, I was thinking about the influence of the earthquake when a lot of Japanese would be only places passed away. Actually, the English language school was demolished and became Saraji. An offering of flowers stand was put in the center, and a large number of bouquets were put. Many buildings collapsed when I watched a rotation, and it turned out that I came under a big influence. Near the English language school, 47 clean chairs were displayed. There was the chair which a small child sat down on in that and seemed to be put to remember the people who were sacrificed in Christchurch. The victim seemed to only have most Japanese.
   A church (church of Ann glycan church, the Anglican Church) which there was next to the English language school was a pillar of the paper, and a church was rebuilt. The same Japanese who rebuilt the Catholic Church of Nagatacho of Kobe seemed to design this.
  I visited Villa Maria College which held the signing ceremony from all over the morning of 25th. The signing ceremony is from 10:00 on 26th. This is because it takes a photograph when it feels a visit and the atmosphere of the school. The building of the school hardened all quite messily in a one-storied house unlike a star of the dawn and was built, but an athletic ground was wide, and I was covered with a lawn, and the students ran a marathon happily if I said with a word. It was to say that I accepted 12 short-term foreign students from Japan now. I seem to conclude a sister school tie-up with a school in Hiroshima in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyushu, it (able to confirm the partner book with six just to have confirmed it). In addition, there was the class of the Japanese course, too and was a very pro-Japanese-like atmosphere. Only the only one met a dispatched sister for a break. Such place still felt that a star of the dawn might be happier.
  I might be worried only about one. It is that there were many for a short term students who Japanese students coming by studying abroad enter the class, and can hear the story of the teacher in debate with a classmate naturally. I was made to think about how I should study English in Japan because it was the student who could enter the class.
  I performed the signing ceremony with five with Hirai who was Principal Debborah (a headmistress teacher) and Mr. Tony, me and Mr. F, the coordinator of the foreign student in total in the principal's office of the handbill Maria college from 10:00 a.m. on 26th. I talked about warmth of an impression and teachers of school after the signing ceremony and asked when I wanted to meet the teacher of the Japanese department, and right or wrong Japan to send a foreign student.
  I visited Lincoln Hgh School from the afternoon and continued inspecting the school. It was the mammoth school of 2,000 scales, but after all there were many Japanese foreign students. The evaluation of the school was that a tenth grader said that I was asked it by a certain national examination how much level it was. For two years, I performed it with three years, and it was Japan to say that a university was fixed at the level of own examination that I fetched, and it was not thought.
  I moved to Oakland on the afternoon of 26th and, on 1st on 27th, I looked at the city and the city area and turned around. I met the students who came for studying abroad in Japanese junior high student, high school students for a short term and did it. It was felt to be interesting that I resembled Vancouver closely very much.
 
  When looked back on six days, and saw it, learned a lot really; think every day. It is an atmosphere similar to Canada and thought when I went to the Oakland museum, but is to have valued the Maori of the native group very much. I think of the atmosphere that is very calm, and is quiet like what I was not able to feel in the Northern Hemisphere.
 
Principal Michiharu Yamaguchi
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