MTEC blog: July 2007

Thursday, July 26, 2007

132. Visit Parents in the Office

Most shools in Japan are now in the summer vacation. These days, it has been a kind of trend that elementary schools encourage pupils to visit their parents in their office.

On this program, June of 12-year-old, son of the staffs' came to MTEC to see who his mother is workng for and how his mother works.

The boy's mother says:
Basically it is good to have my own child stay in the office, but it really makes me feel nervous.

June could see how the training is conducted, and experienced a little of instructor's role.

Anyway, the boy had a good time with you all. Thanks for being nice to him.

Monday, July 23, 2007

131. Egyptian Day

Today, July 23, Arab Republic of Egypt celebrates "Revolution Memorial Day".
At the moment, we have Mostafa from Egypt. He is a real gentleman, if I describe hime. Why don't we celebrate the day with him?

Sorry Mostafa, you have to attend the training today.You should be enjoying the celebration if you are in home country.
Anyway, let us celebrate for you.

Sunday, July 22, 2007

130. Dancers from MTEC

Tedako Matsuri, or Festival of Children of Sun, is the biggest festival held in Urasoe City, where our training institute is located. Every year, many participants here join the festival to perform an Okinawan traditional Dance called Eisa. This year, Anita(Argentina), Leni(Brazil), Fede(Costa Rica), Rosli(Malaysia), Paul(Samoa) and Abdul(Saudi Arabia) took part in it.

Please look at the article 27 if you want to meet the ex-dancers.

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

129. Meeting youth

Our institute has been hosting high school students. It is one of the school programs to visit offices to see the world.

The students usually make tour in OIC, and they sometimes come to MTEC lab to make exchanges.
The photo above is the students from Nishihara High School. Each of them introduced themselves in English, and MTEC parcitipants did it in Nihonto/English....sure??

Here are the photos of exchange made with Naha High School students. Each student stayed for a while with one participant to be introduced with the project being done then.

The lady is Kaai san, who has been working for the project.

Hey, boy, do you understand what Paul has been developing?

Coincidently, the boy had been intrested in photography, so he was really pleased to meet Rosli(Malaysia) who let him try SLR camera for the first time in his life!!!

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

128. He, Wan-Yi, really came to Okinawa!

The typhoon Wan-Yi really came, or approached Okinawa area on July 13, Friday.
OIC was closed all day, so the training on that day was cancelled (of course?).
The participants were requested to stay inside of OIC, so they could not go out from Friday morning until now, oops, all day Friday.
The typhoon was nearest to OIC at around noon of 13(Friday), and moved up to north at the speed of 20km/h to 30km/h.
After Okinawa, it moved to Kyushu, crossed there, moved to the Pacific again to northeast.
Together with the clouds of rainy season, it left a lot of rain in mainland Japan.

Appart from it, there was a big earthquake on 16(Monday) in Niigata and Nagano area, north central part of Japan. Now, Japan is full of natural disaster.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

127. Will he come to Okinawa?

Summer in Okinawa sometimes hosts typhoon (tropical cyclones). This year's 4th typhoon "Man-Yi" is approaching to Okinawa.
According to the website of Japan Meteorological Agency, it seems to be closest to Okinawa on 13th(Friday). In Japan, we are going to have a 3-day holiday from 14(Saturday) to 16(Monday), so we wish it does not ruin our precious holiday....