International day 2012

This week, especially from Wednesday,
I had started making cakes on Wednesday afterschool,
and ended up at 12 o'clock on Thursday!
They are what I made for 2 days!

From the right, Japanese style cheese cakes, maccha cakes(green tea cakes), chocolate cakes and Yatsuhashi.

And Thursday afterschool, our group decorated the room

The final plan for Friday was,
1> Presentation made by Shun
2>Give hand made cakes made by me to top three winners
3>Play a traditional game`Fukuwarai` equipments made by Haruka
4>If we have extra time, `Yamanotesen game`

Fukuwarai is one of very traditional game, it can be said as every Japanese play at least once in s/he of life. We play it at the beginning of a year with family and relatives. It is a game that player pins pieces of face like eyes, ears, nose etc onto a paper which the blank face is written. The player should be blind so that s/he cannot know where to put, people around player can lie. So basically player has exactly no idea where to put them and normally, the face is completed as very very funny.


Yamanotesen game (can be called as Kokontozai as well)is also one of really popular game. Yamanotesen is a one of the train line in Tokyo, like red line in Moscow. People need to decide the theme first, like `country`, then players say Japan, Russia, America,UK etc rythmically, one per person and all players finished saying, back to the first person and continue until someone fails. Once someone said Japan, no  one can use it again.

And finally On FRIDAY, International day...

They really enjoyed our country!!!

I was really glad that they enjoyed, on the reflection paper we asked students to write,

all students wrote positive words like interesting, very good, fun, well organized etc, all of 40 papers!

 

 



Here are learing outcomes of the international day
> by making cakes,

• Increase awareness of my strengths and areas for growth
• Undertake new challenges
• Planned and initiative ativities
• Developed new skills

>Overall for international day, above PLUS,

• Worked collaborativelly with others
• shown perseverance and commitment in activities
• Considered the ethial implications of actions
• Engaged with issues of global importance

Covered all of them!