Thursday, October 23, 2008

Challenge #9: How many years are students REQUIRED to attend school in Japan?




Thursday we went to our last school, Haramachi Senior High School. Again, the arts we observed were amazing. The students' extracurricular activities after school were really neat. We watched a Japanese version of archery, Kendo, and visited the art club. The kids were very shy about sharing the work and receiving praise, but were genuinely happy to meet us. I really enjoyed the high school kids. The academic classes were very structured and super quiet, though we did get a chance to see the home economics class which was so fun! This class took up two periods and students were chopping and cooking the whole time while preparing their own lunch.





Dinner tonight was another great success, because we decided to go back to our favorite that we have coined the "The Red Lantern" because of its giant red lantern in front of the building. They are the friendliest people. We knew we wanted their chicken, but after that the mom/owner just kept bringing more and more dishes LOL. By far, my favorite place of the trip!

2 comments:

Sean said...

Hi Heather this is Sean's friend Mark. Cool pics, my one question is.....where is godzilla ? We need a picture of him.

Ms. Mitchell said...

LOL...well unfortunately we only had one free day and godzilla was off that day. Bummer, right?