Our Experience in Japan
We,
Arnav Gupta, Anushka and Jhanvi Sharma, the students of Arwachin International
School got a golden opportunity to visit Japan this year through JENESYS
Programme, conducted by JICE (Japan International Cooperation Center) in the
month of February. We were in Japan from 14th Feb 2017 to 21st
Feb 2017 .We felt lucky to be selected for this trip by our school, and also
thought that it would be a wonderful experience, because the language we had
been studying for so long will eventually help us in learning the lifestyle and
culture practically.
As
for the programme , this was a unique one with a unique theme as well .The
theme for this programme was “PEACE
BUILDING” among all the nations so as to prevent any kind of war and establish
Peace and Harmony in the World and to
justify it JICE invited students from twelve countries in all, each having a
group of 10 students with one supervisor. We three along with Ms. Thanya
Yohanan our School counselor and six students from two other schools went there
as the Indian group.
There
we were divided into five groups , comprising of 24 students each. The day we
reached ,we were taken to the conference hall of the hotel ,where we were
divided into groups and were introduced to other group members from other
countries. We were very excited to meet them and soon we became friends.
Anushka
of Class X-C was in Group A, Jhanvi Sharma of Class X-A was in Group B and Arnav
Gupta of Class X-C was in Group C. The next day all the groups were together
and we went to the “EDO MUSEUM” to get a deep insight of early Tokyo. Next we visited
the ‘SENSOU JI” temple, which also proved to be an
excellent shopping destination for us. The next day we parted our ways and the
groups went to the cities of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Saga respectively. There
we spent the most important part of our trip and felt that we are one step
closer to the country. We got to see the peace parks and Atomic bomb memorials.
We met the survivors of the Atomic blasts and realized how important “Peace”
was. We also experienced home stay with Japanese families and were delighted to
experience their culture deeply. It was hard to say goodbye to our host families.
Those were the best days of our lives. After that we came back to Tokyo and all
the groups discussed their “Action plan” about “How to establish peace between
the countries?”
Thus,
our wonderful trip to “The Land of the Rising Sun “came to an end. After
staying there we realized that, as humans, we have a lot to learn from the
Japanese.
ARIGATOU
GOZAIMASU ………………………. By- Arnav Gupta XI-A