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-　Maehara Project Group #１８　-

Triad Mail Let us introduce ourselvs. Left in the picture is Chinami, center is Rina and right is Tomoko.  Chinami introduce oil painting, Tomoko introduce Piano and Rina introduce Shuji, traditional Japanese style of writing letters. This is oil painting I paint. I took 2 or 3months to paint this.I learned painting since I was in kindergarden. And I began oil painting from fifth grade. I had to take test(?) before starting to learn oil painting. It was called krokie that drawing face or hand. If I pass it I can start to learn oil painting. I went to painting school at Kodomonokuniyouchienn, kindergarden, once a week on Saturday. My teacher’s name is unknown, he is called “hige, beard” from every students. Little exhibition is held once a year. So I am now painting for it. Interisting point of oil painting is after drying I can paint other paintings. It takes about one week to dry it.Other interesting point is that no one can imagine what would be painting. If you have chance, please try.                                (Chinami) I take piano lessons.   This is picture of I play piano. I learned piano from the time I was in kindergarden. I went to private-run teacher’s school once a week on Friday. Lesson is 40 minutes long from 20 to 4 o’clock to 20 past 4 o’clock. We have concert for students every two years. I have played three times at this concert. I am learning Chelny’s No. 40-3, Sonatine Album No. 1-13 and Sonata by Haydn. We will have concert next April. So I am practicing for it. I must memorize four-page chart and play musec by ear with pushing pedal. It is hard. Let me show what Shuji is like. It is traditional Japanese way of writing. Shuji is the way that witing letters on thin paper using writing brush, ink slab, Chinese ink, paperweight and under sheet. Chinese ink is black. Putting Chinese ink into ink slab and dipping writing brush into ink slab and write letters. Under sheet put under paper and place paperweight on paper. I have learned since I was fourth grade. This picture is the works of mine and my friend’s. This means that “concert tour.” I will take it for exam. My work is second from the left.                                 (Rina) 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