2016 Tokyo Program just started. We all have arrived at the hotel and had dinner on the 49th floor of the Nomura Building in the West Shinjyuku District in Tokyo. We had gorgeous Japanese style dinner (and a little bit of sake, Japanese whiskey and more) with beautiful Tokyo night views from the window. Everyone is in the process of learning to use chopsticks with a few who should be awarded a masters degree in handling chopsticks. Dinner was accompanied with lots of laughters and peer bonding over heathy Japanese dishes.
Everyone has safely arrived at Tokyo, and we are all looking forward to the new experiences from tomorrow!
June 27, first full day in Tokyo.
ReplyDeleteI was really fascinated by the way the city has grown around the temples we visited. I thought it was cool that the they were able to preserve those sites. I also feel like I learned a lot from our discussion with the Wasada students and from listening to Elizabeth, Dave, and Bernie's AR presentations. Listening to the Wasada students' presentations it seemed like they explore very similar topics in their program that we discuss in our courses at USD. I know that we have talked about the differences between U.S. and Japanese lesson study, but from listening to them it seemed like there are probably a lot of similarities as well.