I delivered five outreach sessions on the Japanese culture and language at a secondary school. A total of 125 Year 8 students joined the session, which was more of an interactive session between us than the presentation style I used last time. I enjoyed all the sessions with the students!
I was so impressed that they willingly participated in discussions when I gave them a topic, and I got a shower of questions from most of them. It seemed I was successfully able to break the ice.
We explored the Japanese Ninja, Samurai, food and language while watching five videos. I wanted to elicit what they knew about them and what they wanted to learn more about. Things they were most curious about were the Katana (the long sword the Samurai carried), Omurice (Japanese Omelette Rice), curry rice (Japanese curry), Karaage (fried chicken), and lastly the Japanese alphabet. For the last 10 minutes of class, we did some language activities.
After all five sessions were done, a senior teacher of the school said to me, “You have done a decent job at a secondary school in England”, which made me feel really happy.
