From Australia_Exchange Report on St. Andrew’s CC_180422
From Australia_Sui Hirayama
Once again it is our great pleasure to introduce St. Andrew's Catholic College in Cairns, Australia as our sister school. Now, our new exchange students have kicked off their term 2 integration with St. Andrew's students there. Sui Hirayama, one of the term 2 exchange students reports her first days there at St. Andrew's.
G'day mates!! I'm Sui Hirayama, a current exchange student studying at St Andrew's Catholic College. One week has past since I arrived in Cairns, Australia. In this report I would like to write about my life here in Cairns.
As Cairns is in the southern hemisphere, the season is changing to autumn. It is the opposite from Japan. But the tropical weather makes it very hot. When I left Japan, the temperature there was about 20℃, but Cairns is about 27℃ and the sun's rays is very strong. When you are comming to Cairns, you should bring your sun screen so that you don't get sun burnt!
Now I would like to talk about my school life at St Andrew's Catholic College.
Firstly, St Andrew's is a catholic (Christian) school. We begin the day with morning pray in our home room time. Because Otsuma Nakano is not a religious school, we don't have any time to pray, so it is very interesting for me to have this reflection time.
Secondly, there are many subjects available to students that we are not able to study at Otsuma Nakano. I am now studying religion, photography, accounting, and a trivia class, which we can't take in Otsuma Nakano. Accounting is a class where we can learn how to make new businesses and management of money which you borrow from the bank. In religon we are now studying about racical discrimination that indigenous Australians experienced. During this class we learn about religion but also we can learn moral things. These are both interesting because they are subjects which we can't take while studying at Otsuma Nakano.
The attached photos are of the view which I can see from my house, my time table and my school.
Thank you for reading my report. See you soon!!
皆さんこんにちは! オーストラリア、セントアンドリュースカトリックカレッジに留学中の平山翠です。ケアンズに来てから1週間がたちました。これから私のケアンズでの生活について報告したいと思います。
皆さんご存知の通りオーストラリアは南半球にあります。そのため日本とは季節が逆でこちらは秋に変わり始めています。しかし、亜熱帯気候のせいかまだまだ暑いです。日本を離れたときの気温はだいたい20℃くらいでしたがケアンズは27℃くらいで日差しもとても強いので皆さんがケアンズに来るときは日焼け止めを持ってくることをおすすめします。
次に学校について書きたい思います。セントアンドリュースと大妻中野では沢山の違いがあります。
セントアンドリュースは、カトリック系(キリスト教系)の学校なので朝のホームルームの時間にお祈りから1日がスタートします。大妻中野には宗教がなくお祈りを捧げることがないのでとても興味深いです。
また、大妻中野ではとることのできない教科が沢山あります。私は宗教、写真術、会計学、トリビアの授業をとっています。 会計学では新しいビジネスの始め方や銀行から借りたお金の管理の仕方について学びます。宗教では今はオーストラリアの先住民族、アボリジニーの人々が受けてきた人種差別について学んでいます。この授業では宗教的なことだけではなく道徳的なことも学ぶことができます。
写真は私の家から見える風景と私の時間割とセントアンドリュースです。
読んでいただきありがとうございました!
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