It all began from here (teachers' version)

It all began from here. The three of us visited Kyushu (southern Japan) for a (social) science immersion programme. Being my first time in Japan, I was intrigued by little red bags, the vending machines and the limited express train.

During this trip, we visited elementary and high schools. Miss Ng and I were fascinated by their classroom seating arrangement, their orderly movement around the schools, their monotone greetings to their teachers and their colourful noticeboards that creates a sense of belonging. Do all these sound (un)familiar to you?

I guess the idea of 'visiting Japan' has a strong appeal to many of you. Last November, Mr Ong and I decided that we want our students to witness the clean streets without rubbish bins, the crowded orderly subway queues and perpetual polite greetings. These are their culture, what can you learn from them? You have heard of all these during assembly. Now you are going to verify those words with your own experiences. And of course, nothing beats seeing the world with your own eyes. Geography lessons on volcanoes will never be the same again when you have seen a volcano (Mount Fuji) yourself.

And we are off to Japan again this June holidays.

From the initial proposal to the tedious plannings every weekend, I think our hard work pays off when we saw the overwhelming responses. We are sorry to those students whom we did not select. We have to make choices. To compensate for that, we promise that our participants will update you with every bits and pieces of their encounters in Japan. You will get to enjoy eight days in Tokyo with us.

For the participants, I must have disappointed you when I showed you the list of "Things to do in Japan". I must repeat, "you are not going there with your families for sightseeing". However, we are quite pleased with you as you have been cooperative on our various requests. A big THANK YOU to the members in T-shirt comm and Blog comm. Your enthusiasm and effort to meet our high demands have been noted.

Thanks to technology, we live in this shrinking world. We hope that all of you will enjoy our eight days in Tokyo.

cheers =p
Miss Teo

p/s: we are really thankful to the people who have given us their support and guidance for this trip from their previous experiences. thank you. *green*