Overseas Training to Bogor, Indonesia (9.24～9.30, 2017)

We STEPs visited Bogor, Indonesia for a week at the end of September.

All members spread own view point through experiencing precious things and learning the difference of culture and climate from Japan. Like knowing ourselves by seeing around us, we reminded good points and characteristics of Japan deeply through this overseas training.

We visited Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) and made Indonesian friends. Of course we interacted with them in English. I found their pronunciation. It reminded me that there are various English pronunciation in the world. I think it’s similar to Japan, because we have various Japanese dialects in our small country. I realized that I had overlooked it for a while, because I have taken it for granted. I wanna get used to various English through interaction with international students in future activities.

Moreover, I noticed new tasks as a “Japanese” in this training.

Firstly we need to talk to someone on our own, regardless of our English skill. I didn’t talk to Indonesian students so much on my own. Japan is known as “Shame culture” because we’re often afraid of shame. I wanna try not to be afraid of it in my daily life.

Next, I found that we are often in trouble when we explain about Japan because we don’t know about Japan deeply. So we need not only to brush up English skill but also to get knowledge about our country. We’ll learn about not only visiting countries but also Japanese attractive points in future activities.
 

Finally, we deeply appreciate the people who supported us for our overseas training.

We got high motivation and precious experiences through this training.

We wanna make use of these experiences and be people who can be active in the world.

Written by Koichiro SHIBUYA

Translated by Nako FUCHIWAKI