Jeanneabeck’s Weblog

Well it’s been almost a week so if I’m going to post about this I better get to it.  Last week on Wednesday the students who are studying abroad in Iida through MU’s summer program came to Fuetsu.  (This is the program I studied aboad on two years ago) Fuetsu’s second year international studies students gave presentations on their school, Iida City, and Japanese culture.  These students will be going to Australia next year on an exchange trip and need to especially work on speaking English. Students got a chance to talk to each other and a small group of Fuetsu students took the MU students on a school tour.  Afterwards some of the MU students stayed for our first year international studies student class which was a great surprise to the first years. They seemed to have a good time talking with the MU students in English and I hope that experience encouraged them to study English more.

Because of the nature of this event we ended up in the newspaper not once but twice.  Reporters interviewed MU students, Fuetsu student and even myself.  I guess they accredited me with putting this event together which seems like too much credit.  I just wrote a few messages on Facebook to the MU students.  The teachers at Fuetsu were the ones who made the official calls and what have you.

All in all it was a fun but exhausting day.  The MU students seemed to have a great time and will be back for our school festival and possibly for another (less hectic) school visit.