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Japanese Winner of Global Contest Visits Beijing
Three students and a teacher from Tobu Junior High School from Japan, the Grand Prix winner in the Ecology Category of the Global Contest, were also in Beijing from August 19 to 22. The Japanese group also attended the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and met with a KWN team of Shi-ja Primary School. The Beijing students impressed the guests by performing exquisite tea ceremony and playing the erhu, a two-string traditional Chinese musical instrument. Ms. Bronte Barratt, a gold medal swimmer and Panasonic Australia’s Olympic Ambassador, joined the students at Shi-ja school. The trip left an unforgettable impression on the students. |
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In the tea room at Suzugamine Girls' Junior High School. |
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Boys of US KWN Winning School Meet Girls in Hiroshima
Boys from Rachel B. Noel Middle School, Denver, Colorado, visited Japan as part of the privileges of the Best US Video winner of this year’s KWN New Vision Awards in the U.S. Their eventful trip included a visit to Suzugamine Girls' Junior High School in Hiroshima, where the boys compared notes on their winning film with the girls and made their first encounter with Sado tea ceremony in a traditional Japanese tatami mat room. Since their video featured a World War II topic, the school chose to visit the Atomic Bomb Museum in Hiroshima. |
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Girls from Sharjah, UAE, practices writing "friendship" with a brush and ink. |
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UAE KWN Students Experience Japanese Culture
Students of Al Manar Girls School from Sharjah, the winner of UAE KWN contest, visited Mikawa Junior High School in Okazaki in central Japan. The Sharjah students visited classes, tried Japanese calligraphy, Shodo, and showed their video. The Japanese students reciprocated by showing their film. As part of the KWN activities, a UAE KWN school visits Japan every year to experience and learn a different culture through interactions with Japanese KWN schools. |
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