10 students from Hiroshima Jogakuin Junior & Senior High School to experience homestay in Myanmar
Jan. 20, 2016
by Michiko Tanaka, Staff Writer
From January 19 to 23, 10 students from Hiroshima Jogakuin Junior & Senior High School, located in Naka Ward, will visit Yangon, the largest city in Myanmar, a nation transforming toward democracy. The students will experience a homestay and learn about Myanmar’s social conditions and culture. The trip is part of a program at the school where students are sent overseas in order to develop abilities to play an active role in the international community in the future. It is the first time for a group from the school to travel to Myanmar.
Four third-year students in the junior high school and six first-year students in the high school will take part in the trip. They were selected by a screening committee at the school, from among around 30 applicants. During their stay in Myanmar, they will visit an international school and a public elementary school to observe classes and explain Hiroshima’s history in English.
The students will also visit a school on the outskirts of town that was built by a private Japanese organization. When they learned about the difficult conditions at this school, the students asked their schoolmates to contribute school supplies. In response to this appeal, they have collected donations of writing implements and keyboard harmonicas.
In 2014, Hiroshima Jogakuin Junior & Senior High School was designated a “super global high school” by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. Accordingly, the school expanded the scope of its study abroad program beyond the United States and Australia, two traditional destinations, to include Asian countries.
Though Myanmar was ruled by a military regime for many years, a new government will be established this spring by the opposition party “National Lead for Democracy (NLD),” which is led by Aung San Suu Kyi.
Hinako Ishizuka, 16, a first-year student at the high school and a resident of Minami Ward, is looking forward to the trip. “I want to see the progress being made in the development of Myanmar’s infrastructure. Though I learned that there’s a disparity in wealth, I want to see the situation firsthand and consider how the situation could be improved,” she said.
(Originally published on January 14, 2016)
From January 19 to 23, 10 students from Hiroshima Jogakuin Junior & Senior High School, located in Naka Ward, will visit Yangon, the largest city in Myanmar, a nation transforming toward democracy. The students will experience a homestay and learn about Myanmar’s social conditions and culture. The trip is part of a program at the school where students are sent overseas in order to develop abilities to play an active role in the international community in the future. It is the first time for a group from the school to travel to Myanmar.
Four third-year students in the junior high school and six first-year students in the high school will take part in the trip. They were selected by a screening committee at the school, from among around 30 applicants. During their stay in Myanmar, they will visit an international school and a public elementary school to observe classes and explain Hiroshima’s history in English.
The students will also visit a school on the outskirts of town that was built by a private Japanese organization. When they learned about the difficult conditions at this school, the students asked their schoolmates to contribute school supplies. In response to this appeal, they have collected donations of writing implements and keyboard harmonicas.
In 2014, Hiroshima Jogakuin Junior & Senior High School was designated a “super global high school” by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. Accordingly, the school expanded the scope of its study abroad program beyond the United States and Australia, two traditional destinations, to include Asian countries.
Though Myanmar was ruled by a military regime for many years, a new government will be established this spring by the opposition party “National Lead for Democracy (NLD),” which is led by Aung San Suu Kyi.
Hinako Ishizuka, 16, a first-year student at the high school and a resident of Minami Ward, is looking forward to the trip. “I want to see the progress being made in the development of Myanmar’s infrastructure. Though I learned that there’s a disparity in wealth, I want to see the situation firsthand and consider how the situation could be improved,” she said.
(Originally published on January 14, 2016)
