tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132918462011-04-21T15:54:13.245-04:00I am a third grade gifted and talented teacher at Brooks School Elementary (Hamilton Southeastern Schools) in Fishers, Indiana. I was fortunate to have been chosen to receive a Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund scholarship to travel and study education and culture in Japan during June of 2005. This blog was updated daily for my students and family during my trip. Although my trip is now complete, I will leave the blog up for any interested person to read.Mark Heidenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10673261461579017906noreply@blogger.comBlogger441100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13291846.post-1120158965611853402005-06-30T11:16:00.000-05:002005-07-21T18:20:48.026-05:00

My Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund trip is now totally complete. I landed at LAX today, before I took off in Tokyo (the wonders of a large time difference)! I had to say many goodbyes to some great friends, and that was tough. It has been an absolutely great trip and I feel really thankful to have been chosen to participate. I highly recommend this trip to all teachers--please follow the link to

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Today I depart for the States. I have to admit that it is bittersweet. I met some really wonderful people on this trip, and it will be hard to say goodbye. On the other hand, it will be good to be back in the United States, although I will not get to Indiana until July 7th because of the NEA RA that I will be attending in Los Angeles. I depart the hotel today at 11 AM and then Narita Airport at 4

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Today was the last official day of the Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund trip. We met in the morning after breakfast to have each of the prefecture groups do a presentation about their time in their Japanese host city. Our Tokaimura group went third and presented a song to the tune of The Twelve Days of Christmas. It recounted twelve memories of our Tokaimura experience. The ten group presentations

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We had to leave the ryokan early to make our way back to Tokyo via bus, then train, then another bus. We arrived back in Tokyo by noon and I had a little time to explore some parts of Tokyo with a friend. Later that evening I met up with a bunch of other teachers who were going to attend a baseball game at the Tokyo Dome. It was quite a sight to see baseball in Japan. The Giants were playing the

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We had about an hour and fifteen minute drive to our traditional Japanese inn (ryokan) called Omoide Romankan. The traditional inn is a custom in Japan and the Japanese people love to visit them. They are known for their traditional rooms, feasts, and hot spring baths. One Japanese custom that may seem strange to Americans is the custom of public baths. All over Japan there are bath facilities

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We checked-out of our hotel and went for one last day in Tokaimura. The day began with a discussion with the local PTA (Parent/Teacher Association). After that we learned how to make buckwheat noodles and rice cakes. Then, we were served our noodles and rice cakes at a nice lunch provided by the community of Tokai. After this we were off to visit a temple and a shrine in Tokai before seeing an

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Today began with waking up at 9 AM-it was amazing because I got more than eight hours of sleep and that was the most sleep I have gotten since I was in Los Angeles. After a huge breakfast (pork loin, asparagus, ham, egg, soup, rice, mixed vegetables, and apple juice) Katsuhiro, his mother, his brother, and I set out for the ocean in a boardering town. After going up in a tower to have a great

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Today at 10 AM each person met their homestay family in Tokaimura. I am staying with Katsuhiro Mizukoshi and his family-his parents, sister and brother. The day began with a drive to Mito to eat at a nice restaurant. Then we visited the Kasama Inari Shrine and did some browsing of the local merchants. After that we drove to the Crafthills Kasama. There we spent time creating pottery by hand in a

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Today we visited Tokai High School. In Japan compulsory (required) education only goes through junior high school (9th grade). Most students (97-99%) go onto high school, but they have to apply to gain acceptance. This is one reason why junior high school is so stressful-because the students, and their families, wish to go to a good high school. So, they have to study hard to do well on the exams

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Throughout the day I got to see math, art, cooking, music, English, Japanese, penmanship, swimming, reading, special education, and others. The first grade math lesson I observed was teaching how to subtract numbers like 3 from 5. It was interesting to see the lesson progress from pictures and stories to equations. After school we did also get to observe club activities like music, art, woodcraft

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Today we visited Tokai Village Ishigami Elementary School. The elementary schools here are first through sixth grades. The bus dropped us off about a half mile away from the school so we could walk to school with the students. The students here walk to school because there is no busing. The students will meet up at various locations and then walk the rest of the way together. All of the students

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Next, it was time for lunch. A neat thing about Japanese schools is that the students eat in the classrooms with a teacher everyday. They just arrange the desks into little groups of six and then the students help to serve the food. They had a school lunch ready for me, and even instructions in English of how to eat it. I attached a picture below. The green sheets are seaweed. The way you eat it

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Next we were allowed to wander around the school and observe whatever we were interested in seeing. I started first by a special education room with two students that had disabilities (probably MIMH). As soon as I walked in the students became distracted, but the teacher handled it well and we talked a bit. I moved on next to an English classroom, a math classroom, chemistry, PE, industrial arts,

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Today was a day to look forward to because it is our first official school visit. We are visiting Tokaimura Minami Junior High School. A Japanese junior high school consists of grade 7 through 9, so it is a little different than our junior high schools or middle schools. When we arrived we had to take off our shoes at the entrance, as is commonplace in Japanese schools, and put on our slippers.

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After the busy day of meetings and presentations, we went to a house near the government building for a reception. The house is made to resemble a house that would be in the Tokaimura sister city of Idaho Falls. It has a grandfather clock, western paintings, a wooden beam roof, etc. I think it was a very noble effort to convert a house to look like one from another country. The reception was

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After the presentations of the morning, we went to the local nuclear power plant for lunch and then a tour. Tokai is best known for its nuclear power plant (they even had an accident several years ago-google Tokaimura and you will be able to read about it). We were kept in the tourist area of the nuclear plant-for some reason they did not let us wander around the reactor! But, it was interesting

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This morning we ate breakfast at the hotel and then traveled to the Tokai town government building. (The town is really Tokai-the mura on the end refers to the word village, so when you say Tokaimura, you are really saying Tokai Village.) The mayor, deputy mayor, superintendent of schools, and many other important local government officials were present to welcome us to Tokai and to speak to us

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After the university visit, we took a 35 minute bus ride to Tokaimura, the city that my group of 19 teachers will be in for the next week. After checking into our hotel, the Crystal Palace, we had the evening to ourselves. A group of 7 of us went out exploring and found a great sushi bar that we stayed at for hours. I actually had some great different types of sushi and other dishes. The picture

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Supposedly there was an earthquake in Tokyo overnight, but I must have slept right through it. I don't think it must have been a very big deal because no one was worried. We were up early this morning to board a train to Mito, Ibaraki. Ibaraki is the prefecture (similar to our states) and Mito is the capitol of Ibaraki. We took the train, which was about an hour ride, and then did a little

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Harajuku is known for its famous Meiji Shrine, and for the youth that gather here dressed-up in crazy outfits. Both are a great reason to visit this area. The shrine was really neat, but the best part was witnessing several Japanese weddings. I have attached a picture of one procession below. We did get to see all of the Japanese young dressed-up in everything from goth (all in back with crazy

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This morning I got up and dropped my suitcase at the lobby. Tomorrow we leave for our host cities, so we have to give-up our luggage now. It will magically appear in my hotel room on Monday. Steve and I went out exploring again, this time to the Tokyo Dome, known affectionately as the Big Egg. There is a home baseball game on Tuesday the 28th that a bunch in our group decided to get tickets to

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Kyoto is a beautiful city that is very different than Tokyo because of its age. It is much older because unlike Tokyo, it was not rebuilt in the 1940s and 1950s. It was the capitol of Japan before the capitol was changed to Tokyo. It has the mountains at its side and is full of shrines and temples. When you are up in the mountains, it reminds me of a mountain town in Mexico because of the old

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Once we arrived in Kyoto, we walked to a local hotel to meet-up with our bus tour group. The tour is for an English speaking guide and trips to six major sites in Kyoto. The tour also included lunch and the opportunity to shop at the Kyoto Handicraft Center. In the morning we saw the Ninomaru Palace. This is a famous old palace that has 'nightingale floors.' These are floors that squeak

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I got up and grabbed a taxi to get to the train station to catch the Shinkansen Bullet Train. One thing about the Japanese transportation system-it always runs on time! The Shinkansen arrives on time, and does not wait for any latecomers. The train certainly seems to travel quickly as the trip from Tokyo to Kyoto only took a little over two hours with four stops along the way.

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I did go out with a group of teachers to see the Ginza area of Tokyo, which is probably even brighter and more exciting than Asakusa area. After walking around quite a bit and taking the subway to a different part of the city for the boat ride, we took a boat ride down the river. It was quite scenic to see Tokyo from the water. When we got off of the boat, we had no idea where we were, so we just

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After the math session today Steve and I went and bought our tickets on the bullet train to Kyoto for Saturday. We will be leaving Tokyo on the train at 6:00 AM and arrive at Kyoto at 8:16 AM. We have a tour of the city scheduled that should bring us to the best sites in this historic city. We are then going to take the 9:32 PM bullet train back to Tokyo to arrive at 11:48 PM. It should be a very

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The mathematics session was very interesting for a number of reasons. First, it was neat to hear about the way mathematics instruction has changed throughout the last few years. There has been quite a bit of reform towards helping Japanese students enjoy math because although Japanese students still do well in math comparisons with other countries, they do not like math as the Japanese government

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This morning I got up after a nice full night of sleep, which was my first in a long time. After breakfast Steve (a teacher from Massachusetts) and I went out to see the Emperor's palace, the Japanese Supreme Court, the Diet (Congress) building, and some general sightseeing. We even were lucky enough to stumble upon a Kindergarten with the students arriving. The security guard welcomed us into

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Right after the political discussion, we boarded a bus for a quick city tour until we arrived at the Asakusa district of Tokyo. On our way to this area we did get to see the Imperial Palace grounds and government buildings like the Diet building (similar to the US Capitol Building). After we arrived in the Asakusa district, we set-out to visit the Senso-ji Temple in the Asakusa Shrine. It was

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After lunch today a friend and I finalized plans to travel to Kyoto on this Saturday during the weekend off from JFMF programs. We will take the bullet train to Kyoto and then tour the old city that was spared during the WWII bombing. After the tour we will take the bullet train back to Tokyo. Then, I will spend Sunday in Tokyo. After this interesting transaction, we had the honor of listening to

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This morning I got up at 4 AM local time to depart via taxi for the famous Tsukiji Fish Market here in Tokyo. After I placed a quick call home, 4:45 AM here--2:45 PM Indiana time, Myself and three others shared a taxi to the fish market. It cost 1380 yen to get there, the equivalent of about $13.80. We split it four ways, so it was very reasonable. The fish market was incredible-it was a huge

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After dinner a large group of us went out to explore Tokyo. We took the subway system to Shinjuku, a part of town that is like Times Square in New York City. The subway was so packed that we were squeezed in the car very tightly. This part of town was a dazzling display of lights and activity. We mainly waked around before trying to figure out how to get back to the hotel. It was quite a time and

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After the performances of this afternoon, there was a short break before reception banquet. The banquet was very unique because there were no chairs, only some scattered tables for the nearly 300 people to stand around and eat. There were many buffet lines to choose from for many types of Japanese food. I mainly ate teriyaki beef, but I did also get my first taste of sushi. I did make a poor

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Both the Japanese traditional theatre and the Kabuki theatre were demonstrated for our group. We also received a lecture on the history of Japanese theatre. The performer shown below is a famous performer and the daughter of a very famous Japanese performer. She demonstrated the application of make-up and the donning of the Kimono before she danced for us. Then, she posed for pictures with us

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I had breakfast this morning in the hotel. We had both Japanese and American breakfasts. I started with the Japanese breakfast and then saw the American eggs, sausage, bacon, bananas, orange juice, etc. They even had forks for us to use (which are much easier than chopsticks!). After breakfast we had another orientation session followed by an excellent presentation by one of the top education

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Our student took us to a little restaurant where I had noodles in a soup with fried shrimp/vegetables. It was pretty good, although I admit that a steak might have been better! I did get my chance to try to use chopsticks and slurp my noodles. After our dinner we went and explored a subway station before we went back to the hotel for the evening. I did stay up a while to watch CNN American

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I have an incredible room to myself for my stay in Tokyo. The treatment here was very nice as we were welcomed by many very considerate staff members. The hotel is one of the top in Tokyo because of its beauty and fine services. Once I got into my room at about 6 PM on June 14th, I had a few minutes to explore the room's interesting qualities (including some Japanese baseball live on TV) before I

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We had a nice flight over that took a little over nine hours. We got to watch four movies: Sideways, Coach Carter, Robots, and X-Men. Those movies definitely helped the flight go faster. Once we did land in Tokyo Narita Airport, we went through immigration and customs and then boarded a bus for the hour and a half drive to our fantastic hotel, the Akasaka Prince Hotel. I posted a picture below of

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The plane for Japan departs at 1:35 local time (3:35 PM Indiana CST) today from the San Francisco International Airport. It will be about a 12 hour flight to Tokyo Narita International Airport. Because of the International Date Line, which we will cross, we will lose a day and arrive on Tuesday the 14th at about 4:30 PM. Coming back I will actually leave Japan and then arrive in LAX before I left

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Well, I did make it to Los Angeles today. The flight was late taking off from Indianapolis, but I still made it here to LA with much of the day left. Once I landed in Los Angeles, I tracked down my bag and grabbed a shuttle to my hotel--the Renaissance Hotel. After I checked in I was able to find a Burger King to get lunch--I was happy to avoid the over-priced hotel restaurant food. Now I have

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Well, I leave in just two and a half days now. I am getting packed and ready little by little. My main concern while I am gone is my saltwater aquarium, because although it is well established, a lot could go wrong while I am gone. I am very lucky to know an expert in the area who is willing to take care of it while I am gone, so everything should be OK. Here is a picture just in case it doesn't

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Well, I only have 1000 days until I leave for my trip to Japan. Of course my classmembers probably realize that I am not counting in base 10! I could also say that I will leave for Japan in 13 days. Can any of you figure out how many days it is in base 10?Try on your own first, but then if you get stuck, or need to check your answer, check out http://www.math.com/students/converters/source/

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It is hard to believe, but school is now out for the summer. Although I will be at school quite a bit over the next few days, the teaching aspect is now over until August.The end of school is always an emotional day for teachers and students. On one hand, I was excited to complete the school year. But, on the other hand, it is difficult to realize that your time to teach this group of kids is

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It is hard to believe that I will be leaving for Japan in just two weeks....keep looking here for updates....

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