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-　Maehara Project Group #１２　-

Good Friends Our names are from the left in the picture Chosan, Taipon, Daikichi and Takuchin. I often play Menko at school. Menko is piece of paper and lining on the ground and we throw other menko from above, if we can turn ground one we can get that one. I like to play called Chuate at school garden. That is drawing square on the ground and some people into this square and other people stand both sides throwing ball to people inside square, if hit the ball that people out from the square and people who throw ball go Into the square. Now my school is under reconstruction for protection against earthquake. It will not finish until my graduation.So school ground become bit small. But we enjoy playing at school. I hope new school building is completed.  　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　(Takuchin) There is soccer ground called Tokyo Stadium 30 minutes from my house. I like soccer so I often go to watch soccer game. Tokyo Stadium is home ground of two teams. One is Tokyo Beldy 1969 and the other is FC tokyo. Beldy means green and FC means football club. I like FC Tokyo. This picture is players of FC Tokyo. Player who wears black uniform is Doi who is goalkeeper and captain of FC Tokyo. He is really good player because he often save  goal very well. Foreign players Amarao and Kery play for FC Tokyo. Good players play for Tokyo Beldy 1969 as well. For example, Edimund who played for Brazil national team at 1998 World Cup and Kitazawa　who used to play for Japanese national team. I usually watch soccer game behind goal and sometimes watch at supporters’ seat. I hope Tokyo Beldy 1969 and FC Tokyo will play well. 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 (Chosan) I tell about book. I like Harry Potter. I have already read all five books. I will go to watch movie of Harry Potter and Secret Room. I like Lord the Ring and Darentian as well. So I watched these movies. Please read these books.  　　　　　　　　　　　　　　(Taipon)  I tell about insects in Japan. This picture is beetle which I like best. Horned one is male and honeless one is female. This picture is male beetle. Male often fight each other for honey or female.  　　　　　　　　　　　　(Daikichi)  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