Summer Vacation!

Hello, everyone! This is Tatsu from Global Network Team. How’ve you been? I’ve been busy with preparation for EIC 2014!  But, I’m doing well and excited to join EIC this year!

Speaking of your summer vacation, are you having fun? I’m very jealous of you! I don’t have summer vacation like you!  Please share what you have been doing and your plan for summer vacation.
I want to know about it!

I used to go back to my permanent house in summer.Who is going to visit your grandma & grandpa’s house? I’m from countryside, so, I like to spend in the mountain and feel the nature sometimes.  Who do you like to go to countryside? Please share your experience in countryside.

Or who is going to travel abroad? Asia? Europe? America & Canada? I know you are international person who can communicate in English! Traveling abroad makes you learn and enjoy very much! Bring souvenirs for GNT ok?

I miss Summer vacation! Please enjoy it for us and share lots of stories in English, ok?
We want to know more more stories from you!

Drink lots of water and stay healthy!

Tatsu

The FIFA World Cup 2014 (BRAZIL)…

Do you know what the world cup is?
Well if not the FIFA world cup or sometimes just called the World Cup is an international soccer/football competition contested by senior soccer teams from different countries around the world. The world cup started in 1930 and takes place once every four years. This year the world cup is taking place in Brazil.

This year the world has been full of surprises and it’s very hard to predict who is going to win, because the current champions (SPAIN) are already out of the competition. Which team are you supporting? This year unfortunately Japan was knocked out of the competition, but they tried their best and did you know that the Japanese supporters that went to Brazil to watch the Japanese team cleaned their stadium seats after watching the game. This amazed a lot of people around the world.

Let’s all enjoy the world cup!!! 

寺尾美紀　Miki Terao

東北トリップに参加させて頂きありがとうございました。2人の息子と参加した者として、東北トリップでの経験は東北の復興についてより考えたり、東北の人々に働きかけるモチベーションを与えてくれました。私たちは東北の行く先々で悲しみに遭遇しました。参加者の方々とコミュニケーションを取ることなしに、悲しみを乗り越えることはできなかったと思います。
Thank you very much for let me join the Tohoku trip. As a participant with two of my sons, the experience inspired me to think more about recovery of Tohoku and gave a motivation to work with Tohoku people. In fact, we encountered sad moments whenever we went. I could not go through the sadness without communicative interaction with the participants.

東北への思いを高めるために私たち家族が行ったことは神戸でのボランティアです。
「はるかのひまわり」について聞いたことがありますか？阪神淡路大震災の時、震災で亡くなったはるかちゃんを忘れないように、神戸のボランティアは毎年ひまわりの種をまいています。今年は東北の方も一緒に種をまきました。そのことで、一緒に悲しみを乗り越えているように思えました。ひまわりは私たちの家の近くに植えられていますので、今年の夏には満開のひまわりを見ることができますし、東北との距離を埋めてくれると思います。
What we have done to heighten our feeling to Tohoku was a volunteer work in Kobe. Have you heard of “The sunflower of Haruka?” Every year, since after the Great Hanshin Earthquake, Kobe volunteers have planted seeds of sunflower with the memory of a girl, Haruka, who lost her life. At this year, Tohoku people was with us and planted them together．It made us feel like we work together to overcome the sadness. As the sunflowers are planted in our neighborhood, it is possible to see the full bloom during this summer and it will bridge a gap between us.

今年、阪神淡路大震災から20年目を迎え、多くの追悼行事が行われますので、東北の復興を祈りながらボランティアを続けることに挑戦したいと思います。
As we will have twentieth memorial in Kobe and will have various kinds of memorial events, I would challenge more volunteer work with praying for the recovery of Tohoku area.

It has been two months since we went to Tohoku trip

Recently we don’t hear the news about disaster stricken area in Tohoku.
If we don’t pay attention to Tohoku, we may forget about Higashi Nihon Daishinsai.

３月末に行われた東北トリップから、２か月がたちました。

新聞でもテレビでも、東北の被災地の様子が報道されることはほとんどありません。

意識して見たり、伝えていかないと忘れ去られてしまいそうです。

We Tohoku trip members, who are 28 participants, decided to keep on telling about Tohoku on this blog.

私たち東北トリップメンバーは、これからも東北のことについて、このブログにて伝え続けることに決めました。

We will occasionally share some information or impression about Tohoku.

定期的に情報や感想などを伝えていきたいと思います。

At first time I think “what we can do?”

いま私たちがなにができるか・・・を考えてみました。

When I put “Tohoku Shinsai Dekirukoto” and search on Internet, I could find a lot of websites.

I think that we can do many things even if we don’t go to Tohoku.

インターネットで「東北　震災　できること」と検索すると、いろんなサイトが出てきます。

それらを見ていると、実際に東北にいかなくても、できることはたくさんありそうです。

I will say about 4 things.

At first, the thing we can do is to buy some foods from Tohoku.

If we pay attention, when we go shopping at supermarket, we can do easily.　

一つめは、東北の食べ物を買うことです。これはスーパーやインターネットなどで意識すればできることです。

The second, we can donate even a little to Tohoku.

We can donate at some of convenience stores. I think it is already wonderful if we donate only 1 or 2 yen.

二つ目は、少しでも寄付をすることです。

コンビニなどでも、まだ東北支援の募金箱を置いてあるところがあります。１円でも２円でも、ずいぶんと価値があります。

The third is to share any information about Tohoku.

I think it is very good to share the news about Tohoku by using Facebook or LINE is also good.

３つ目は、いろんな情報をシェアする事です。ラインやフェイスブックでニュース記事などを送るのも良いと思います。

The last thing is to have an interest about Tohoku continuously.

Local people in Tohoku hope that “Never forget Tohoku!”

４つ目は、興味を持ち続けることです。東北の人は忘れないでほしい、と強く願っていました。

Let’s start from what we can do!　

無理をしなくて良いので、できることからスタートしていきましょう。

If you have a good information about Tohoku, please tell GNT team.　

また、「こんな活動があったよ」というのがあったら、ぜひＧＮＴチームまで教えてください。

english.camp@kumon.co.jp

Hiro from Kumon Grobal Network Team

Congratulations Camp Leaders who graduated in this spring

Hello everyone this is Pubu from GNT. Hope all of you are doing great and working hard to get your dream.

 

This spring, in March some of the Camp Leaders could achieve one of their dreams by graduating from their universities.

 

Some of the Camp Leaders are from Kansai are and others are from APU (Beppu).  Me, Yafu and Maza attended their graduations to thank them for their contribution to EIC. Also to we could see their beautiful graduation ceremonies too. It was very wonderful to see all the Camp Leaders with big smiles in their faces.

Also I could meet my parents, my sister and my nephew. Because my younger brother (Channa) also graduated from APU. I was very happy to see my family after a long time. My Parents also enjoyed their stay in Japan. They love Japan.

 

                              

We wish all the EIC Camp Leaders who graduated a great future ahead. Hope to meet all of you in APN. Till then Take care.

Update on the mango tree in SAJA

In December 2010, the first Kumon EIC Study Tour in Jakarta. Study Tour members visited SAJA (School of Street Children) and had a fun time with a lot of children. At that time, they planted 2 mango trees together.



In December 2013, Ken, Masa, Maza, Yuko and Mika visited SAJA and met Mr. Reinherd Hutabarat, who is the founder of SAJA, and some children. And now the mango tree has grown taller than the SAJA’s building. Unfortunately, one of the mango trees was cut down by a car accident. But one mango tree still there and keeps growing! We were very happy to see it. We hope EIC family can, one day, eat mangos with SAJA kids in the future.

Related article

Study Tour Completion Report
http://www.immersioncamp.com/wiki/index.php?Take_Action_Study_Tour_Indonesia_E

Study Tour's Update after One Year
http://www.immersioncamp.com/wiki/index.php?Take_Action_Study_Tour_I_After_E

'Love Chain Message' - Series

Hello everyone!

This is Maza from GNT office. We (GNT) are starting the series called 'Love Chain Message' which is to share messages from EIC Family member and also to find out how other members are doing too.

To start off we have invited Aiko (EIC 2001~2007) to share her message with everyone.
Thank you Aiko for your message. Please enjoy reading Aiko's message. :)
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Hello Everyone!
How are you doing? Hope everything is going well with you. :)

My name is Aiko. I was a member of Kumon English Immersion Camp office from 2001 to 2007.
I left Kumon office in 2008, and now living in Miyazaki.

I want to share with EIC Family members a little about 'My Dream'. Do you remember the EIC activity named “Making Dream Poster”?

First, we talk and make images of what we want to do or what we want to be in the future. Then we draw a picture of future image on the paper. Some were cutting the magazines and paste photos on the paper. It was very fun! I am sure many of you loved it.

In EIC2006, I made my Dream Poster. Actually it was a Camp Leader training. I acted one of participants in the group. I made it very seriously. In my Dream poster, I wrote :
“ My dream is to have a peaceful family. I hope many peaceful family are born all around the world”.

To tell the truth, I was single and I had no plan to have a family of my own at that time. After the camp finished, I put my dream poster on my room’s wall and looked at it every day. And then……after 2 years, I met my present partner and we are blessed with a baby boy.

Well, now I can say that 'Dream Poster' is really effective! When we can make the image clearly, it is input in our brain and we unconsciously changed our words and actions .
It’s like…WOW!

How is yours? What happened to you after making your dream poster? Now I am very confident to say peaceful world starts from a peaceful family. Because I think peace is in each of our “KOKORO”. Even it’s a very small action, everything is connected to making a peaceful world.

I am going to make my next Dream Poster......

Thank you everyone, and thank you Kumon English Immersion Camp in giving me the chance to learn this wonderful way. I hope everyone’s dream will come true so that this world will become a better place.

Big hug,

Aiko (Aiko Kawano) Kumon staff (2001-7) --> Tingli, Aiko wants to know about you!