142. Photos from Jamaica

Mr. Raymond McLeod, aka Mud, is from Jamaica and one of the members in 06dvp.
After the recent hurricane Dean, the members of 06dvp exchange the e-mails of concern to him and Jamaica. We, MTEC, feel happy to know these concern and care shown.
Mud recently sent some photos after the Hurricane.

The Government of Japan sent some aids to Jamaica. Mud attended the handingover ceremony, and took some photos too.

Let us show our sympathy to those who suffered from it, and let us pray for the quick and safe recovery.

141. The First Class Outing.....Bowling Time!

Thanks to the very active athlete coordinator, Kumiko Teruya san, the first class outing of 07dvp turned to Bowling (not boring, excuse me).
It was held on the evening of August 24, Friday.

I will post the photos later.

140. Their first week in MTEC

1. Instructional Design by Tokumura san
Yes, the very important theoretical subject to survive in MTEC. ASSURE!

2. Basic of Shooting by Nishimura san
Then, another most important skills in this course follows...

Some photoclips from the shooting exercise.

The ladies work together.

The exercise was practiced under the bright sunshine of Okinawa.

Some were using a bust portrait together.

And Nishimura san was giving his warm smile and advice to them.

139. Very small visitors

A group of about 25 children visited out institute. They had a session to understand the world (the concept of nations and international cooperation, etc.), then visited MTEC studio.
Each of them made self introduction in English, then MTEC participants made introduction in Nihongo (Japanese language) in turn.

138. MTEC Big brother returns.

The big brother of MTEC, aka Chief Instructor of MTEC, has returned from China. On August 22, Maekawa san met Digital Video Production 2007 Course participants for the first time.

And as our family members in the world know it already (and we got some e-mails of concern), an aircraft of China Airline got exploded and burned soon after all passengers disembarkation. It was the following day of that incident when Maekasa san returned. He took a couple of photos of the craft, so that we can show it to you.




The cause of this has been reported as "mismaintenance".
We hope the cause is detected properly, and the lesson is utilied for the future.

137. Welcome to MTEC Family!

Right after 07tpm members are gone (and we still think of them, of course), the new MTEC course "07dvp" started on August 20 (Mon.), 2007. Upon their approval, MTEC posts the photos of the participants. Thanks for your kind cooperation!


The above photos were taken during OIC tour in the Briefing session.
The photographer was MTEC Assistant, Fumiyo Kaneshima.

Do you remember your time? > All ex-participants?

136. Award goes to.....

Last but not least, I would like to mention the Award of the poster to promote "Gender Free Society". All participants made a good poster, and the selection was hard, we heard.
And...this year, the Award goes to....drum drum drrrrrrrr.... Mr. Paul Amerika!
Congratulations!

135. Bon Voyage to All!!

The Closing Ceremony for 06tmp course was held on August 17(Fri.), 2007.
Time flied this time too.
Like other courses, they came, stayed, learned, and leave. It always gives us the same feeling. Happy for them, but sad for parting.


Good luck in everything that you will do in the future!

134. Dobroe Utro! MTEC lecture in Russian?

MTEC staffs travel domestic and international. These days, Mr. Maekawa, our chief, has been in China.
And here is another example of lecturing by MTEC.

MTEC-HQ was invited to present a lecture on "Presentation Skills" in Tokyo. Actually it was a training pfferred by Ministry of Finance, Japan. And the participants are from Central Asia and the Caucasia.

The lecture was presented in a little different way from the ordinary ones.
Lecture was given in Nihongo (Japanese), and translated into Russian.
The lecture material was prepared in English.
Very multilingual lecture, it was.

Both the trainees and myself were nervous at the first sight, but getting friendly soon after. It was a pity that the lecturer has no chance to see if the lecture was efficient enough, because their presentation will be held at the end of this month.
How I wish to go to Tokyo to attend the presentation!
Well, anyway, let me wish for the good luck in your presentation!

Here, I would like to past one souvenir photo taken from the airplane from Okinawa to Tokyo. Mt. Fuji, the highest mountain of Japan with 3776m, could be viewed.

133. Days of Final Production....and Class Polo

The participants of 07tpm (Theory and Practice on Public Enlightenment Using Multimedia 2007) has been pretty busy with the production of their material.
Sometimes they look exhausted, but I believe they will achieve what they planned.




Besides their responsibility, they never forget the friends... or "new international family" we can say. To comemorate the class, they made class polo. The logo was designed Fede(Costa Rica).

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.

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.

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.

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!!!

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.

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....

126. Congratulations Argentina!

July 9 (Mon) is the Independence Day of Republic of Argentina.

The flag has been hoisted at our reception, and a meal of Argentina was offerred at our dining hall.

In MTEC now, we have Anita freom the counrty now.

Congratulations!!

125. Observation Tour

The group of 07tpm left Okinawa on a beautiful Sunday morning.

At Kansai AP, Osaka.

Dinner at Osaka International Center

With Prof. Kubo at National Museum of Ethnology

On the way to Kyoto International Cultural Foundation. Oh, oh, don't go with the children!

Mostafa trying to make Japanese Green Tea

In Shinkansen to Tokyo

In SCS (Space Collaboration System) room in Chiba

At National Museum of Emerging Science in Tokyo. Can you tell who is sleeping under that big globe?

At NHK. Anita changed her job to news caster.

124. Here are the promoting posters for "Gender Free Society"

Again in this year, the participants of tpm course got a request from JICA to make a poster for "Gender Free Society". The target is "Japanese students from an elementary school to a high school".
They spent 4 days for research, design, production and revision.