Do you know about MUNK and EMUNK?

Hello EIC family members!

Have you heard about MUNK and EMUNK?
Tatsu, Mika and I visited Kumon Kokusai Gakuen to observe MUNK and EMUNK.
MUNK means Model United Nations of Kumon and EMUNK means English Model United Nations of Kumon.  MUNK and EMUNK is the one of school activities at Kumon Gakuen.

If you want to know the details, please go to;
http://www.kumongroup.com/press/?p=2654&ID=TOP


The participants are junior high or high school students.  One student represents one country, as an ambassador.  They discuss world issues.  This time, the topic was the ”Abolition of human trafficking”（人身売買）  I think this topic would be difficult to discuss even if it were in Japanese.  On February 11th, the language was all English!  I was so impressed!


 But what I was surprised most by was that we found 4 EIC participants in this activity!  Hiroto(EIC2008 Hachikogen) attended MUNK and EMUNK!  In the MUNK, he raised his hands and asked some questions several times.


  I was really really encouraged by his attitude and courage!  In the EMUNK, about 80% of participants are returnees.  Hiroto is the only one who is not a returnee in his group.  But he spoke out his opinion in his group and also he shared his opinion in front of everyone in English!



P.S.
An interesting internet site called freerice.com was introduced at EMUNK. At that site, you can play an English vocabulary quiz. If you can choose a right answer, that site will donate 10 grains of rice through the World Food Programme to help end hunger.

If you have time, access their webpage and play the quiz.
http://freerice.com