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-　Maehara Project Group #１　-

My Favorite things How do you do?  My name is Anna.  I like ballet.  I have been practicing it since I was three years old.  I practiced it four times a week.  When I don’t have a ballet lesson and am free, I read ballet magazines and watch ballet videos. My favorite dish is a hamburger steak and various kinds of desserts.  My hamburger steak is big and delicious.  When I eat out, I often order a hamburger steak.  I often choose jelly as a dessert.  I also make jelly by myself.  My favorite sweet is bitter chocolate. (Anna) How do you do?  My name is Hiroko.  Now I’m absorbed in shopping.  I try to find cheap things.  My purse was only \150.  I am collecting discount coupons, too.  Why I started to look for cheap shops is that I like cheap goods.  My favorite dish is corn soup.  My favorite snacks are Koikeya’s Don Tacos Mexican Chili, Koikeya’s Scone Barbeque and Pringles’ Sour Cream & Onion.  My favorite dessert is jelly. (Hiroko) Our Class Hamster This is Minita, a hamster we keep at 6-3 Class.  When classes were changed and we were in 5-3 Class, we decided to keep a hamster.  Deciding his name, we thought of various names like Hamutaro and finally we chose Minita.  Why we chose this name is that he was very little and cute.  But now he is a little fat because he eats a lot, sleeps well but doesn’t do exercise.  But still he is pretty. (Anna, Hiroko) This is a picture of us taken in our school.  The right is Saki and the left is Natsuki.  Now we will tell you about the Japanese food. (Saki, Natsuki) Natto is upper left. Natto is fermented soybeans.  When we eat natto, it is sticky and gooey.  Attention:  Natto is a fermented food but it’s not like liquor.  Some Japanese like natto, and others don’t.  We like natto very much because it is sticky. Umeboshi is upper right on the left picture. Umeboshi is a very salty food.  Ume (Japanese apricot) is pickled into salt and colored with shiso (beefsteak plant). Most Japanese people water on hearing the word ‘umeboshi’.  Umeboshi is very good for the health. The food down right is called mori-soba.  To make soba, we grind buckwheat, knead it, roll it out and cut it thin and long.  When we eat soba, we dip it into tsuyu, soup made with soy sauce and soup stock, and make a slurping sound. This picture is about to eat soba.  If you have a chance to eat soba, please try!! (Saki, Natsuki) Dear Students, Guardians and Teachers of Koganei Maehara Elementary School, We at VFJ/ALIESC have embarked upon a rather ambitious second-phase project this fall involving schools from Russian Far East and China's Inner Mongolia in addition to the United States, Japan and Nepal which have schools already participating in on-going programs, We would like you to know that this is the beginning of our plan of building a network that covers the entire Asia-Pacific region with an aim to bringing the children and youth of all countries of this region into direct and interactive contact at our web site called "Bridges Among Cultures." The primary purpose of all this is to provide the participants with an ever-expanding possibility of getting to know each other in an intimate and personal way using the best of the IT technologies, including satellite communication service for remote communities so that together they can share the rich diversity of Asia-Pacific national and regional cultures as their common heritage. Perhaps the most important among the various advantages of this program lies in the fact that such an interactive exchange started in early ages is bound to give birth to new types of lifelong friendship as a personal learning process bound to continue for one's  lifetime. First begining with digital and graphic participation, the children and youth of Asia-Pacific region will, as they become young adults, find ways and means of visiting each other’s countries, on business or ecotours perhaps, to meet each other and confirm their long-standing “digital” friendship for real. What else will be more effective in nurturing a lasting international understanding and a new spirit of cooperation based upon mutual trust among the youth during the first decades of the 21st century? December 9,  2002 Yutaka Okamoto Chairman Organizing Committee Assocation for Lifelong International Education Starting from Childhood (ALIESC) For more information and questions, please contact  International Exchange Secretriat