From Australia_Report_on_St. Andrew’s Catholic College_Feb.27th_2016

Otsuma Nakano students are being around the world!  Proudly we present another new report from Cairns, Australia.  Shiho Ogata, a senior 1^st grader of Otsuma Nakano, studying at St. Andrew’s Catholic College in Australia reports her impressive life there.

Hi,there!  I am Shiho Ogata.  I'm now studying at St. Andrew’s Catholic College in Australia.  How fast time flies!  I mean that four weeks have already passed since I arrived here. I can realized that my English is gradually improving little by little, especially my listening skills are getting much better.

Last weekend, my host sister and I watched a movie,'deadpool'.  We didn't have English and Japanese subtitles, of course, which was hard for me to catch up with its story. However I could occasionally understand what the actors were saying. That was very funny movie without words, so I want to watch it again.

Next I went to Crystal Cascades, which is a natural cascade surrounded with woods. I walked around there and swam in it. The cool water felt good. In Japan I have never been to the place like this, so I had a lot of fun!  I loved this place!

At St. Andrew’s, I am leading a fulfilling and productive time there, which makes me encouraged and motivated.  One of productive days was last Friday. On that day I supported a Japanese class through teaching the correct Japanese accent to prep students and grade 4 students in junior school.  I helped grade 1s and 4s in Japanese class.  I was very surprised to find the students in this school have learned Japanese since they were preps! They talked to me with 'こんにちは'. They learned a lot of Japanese words with the music. For example, Hiragana, number, greetings, and main verbs.

Ms. Allison Von, who is teaching Japanese, is really good at speaking Japanese. I was also surprised about that. She has experienced studying in Japan. Because of it, we talked a lot about studying abroad at lunch time. I had a very nice and special time.

I will try to be involved in English language environment as much as I can and spend my time here cherishing every day.  Thank you for reading my report!

Regards,

Shiho,

こんにちは！緒方志帆です。オーストラリアに来てからもう4週間が経ってしまいました！

先週末、ホストシスターと2人で deadpool という映画を見に行きました。もちろん字幕はなかったので聞き取りは大変でしたが、少しだけ私でも聞き取れるところがあったので嬉しかったです！言葉が分からなくても充分楽しめる映画だったので、また見に行きたいです！

また、Crystal Cascades にも訪れました。周りを木々に囲まれている自然豊かな滝で、とても綺麗だったのが印象的です。日本ではこのようなところには行ったことがなかったので、歩いたり泳いだりして楽しめました！

学校でも、充実した毎日を過ごしています。しかしこの前の金曜日は、ジュニアクラスの日本語の授業のサポートにまわりました。驚いたことに、この学校の生徒は 日本でいう幼稚園のころから日本語を教わっています。私を見ると「こんにちは！」と元気に話しかけてきてくれました！

また、彼らに日本語を教えているボン先生はとっても日本語がお上手で、それにも驚かされました。彼女も日本への留学経験があるので、昼休みにはそのことについてたくさんお話をしました！とても貴重な時間でした。

残りの4週間も出来る限り多くの英語に触れて、1日1日を大事に過ごしていきたいです。