The literature club

We are the junior high school literature club.

We write stories in order to issue a literary magazines twice a year.

We also read and criticize the stories.

Thanks to these activities, we can write good stories.

It is very interesting to make stories of imaginative worlds in our own words.

Please look forward to our blog being updated.

Our chorus club took part in the Hibaku Piano Concert.

The concert was planned by the Peace Club which consists of junior and senior high school students in Hiroshima.
This concert was held for spreading the members’ hopes for peace.
The piano used in the concert belonged to a girl who was killed by the atomic bomb in 1945.
The piano was damaged by the weapon, too.
It was damaged by broken glass when a window was broken by the impact of the bomb.
As many as 100 students played the piano, other instruments and sang.

More than 300 people listened to our performance.
We wanted our songs and hopes for peace to spread throughout the people’s hearts!

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In Hiroshima, it’s getting colder.
And Christmas is coming soon.
We are preparing for Christmas.
We set the big Christmas tree and wreathes in the entrance.

The 2nd year students of the junior high decorated the school with decorations which are made from combining a lot of pieces of Origami.

They are so colorful and beautiful!

The student council members made Christmas cards for the neighborhood.
Each of them created a card to express the daily thanks.

Do you think these are unique?

We can’t wait for Christmas!!
We wish you a great Christmas.

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We will introduce Julia’s experiences.

In May we held our school festival, where I was in charge of “Wanage” (game where you throw rings on bottles) area and ate lots of delicious food like Yakisoba (fried soba noodles), Takoyaki (octopus balls) and ice-cream.

Next, we watched a spectacular musical called “Beauty and Beast”, where I was really fascinated by the actor’s talents in singing, dancing and acting.
Then came the summer holidays, where I visited a Japanese friend of my German mum who lives near Osaka.

 
I also went on a Kendo camp on Ninoshima, went to the peace ceremony on August 6th and visited my host family’s grandparents in Yokohama.
 

In the next blog we will tell you about Julia’s days in September.

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We will introduce Julia’s experiences.

Hi, everyone!
My name is Julia Neubert and I’m an exchange student for Germany.
Since April this year, I’m a student of class ⅠA of Seishin High School.
As sadly my time here is almost over and I have to fly back to Germany on 9th, I’d like to show you a few of my great experiences and the wonderful time I had here at Seishin High School!

Right at the beginning of the year, we went on a school trip to an aquarium called “AQUAS”.
There was a ring-loop-blowing beluga whale called “Happy” and afterwards we blew bubbles, too!!

With the hiking club, I had fun tenting, BBQing, and hiking on Hiroshima prefecture’s highest mountain, Osorakan-zan.

We will introduce Julia’s experiences in May and summer vacation.

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ESS (English Speaking Society)

We are practicing for the Recitation contest now. We are the moderators of the contest. We not only moderate but some of us also take part in it, as three students did this year.

We usually play “shiritori”, “magicalbanana” and bingo in English, and watch videos.

We build friendships together and our club is very exciting.

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It’s getting colder and colder.
The signs of winter are felt.

Leaves are falling.

Cleaning fallen leaves is hard work, but we are deeply impressed by the beautiful red and yellow leaves.

By the way, we cleaned the whole school last Thursday.
We swept and mopped the floor, wiped the windows, and so on.
After we finished cleaning, we felt very refreshed.

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Today, we’ll tell you about hamster of biology club.

Eating a lot of food, he’s big and fat.

Eating…

It’s getting colder and colder these days, so we set heater for him.

He is playing with a beaker.
He used to bite us, but nowadays we can touch him safely.

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Hello, everyone. It’s our fifth blog about IYCPF. In this blog, we will introduce sightseeing in Miyajima, homestay, bon dancing experience at Senda Elementary School and okonomiyaki.

○ Sightseeing in Miyajima.

We went to Itsukushima Shrine.

We made momiji manju and a rice scoop.

○Homestay

To experience the atmosphere of a Japanese home, foreign members stayed at a Japanese home for one night.

○ Bon Dancing

We joined Bon Dancing Festival which was held at Senda Elementary School. Every one danced to the song “Let’s Go Hiroshima Carp.” This dance is associated with the moves of baseball and everyone enjoyed it through this dance. Non- Japanese members and local people could understand each other though they speak different languages. After we went back to the hotel, all of us were singing the song softly to ourselves.

○ Okonomiyaki

Okonomiyaki is a traditional food of Hiroshima. We ate Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki at an okonomiyaki restaurant in the city. Muslims can’t eat pork because of religious rules, so, we felt culture differences from this experience. It was really tasty, though.

○ Group Dinner

During the conference, we were divided into seven groups and went out for dinner　almost every night.

In the next blog, we will introduce a discussion as a summary of Peace Studies.

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A rainbow appeared this morning.

We could see the rainbow from our schoolyard.

A rainbow is a symbol of fortune.

A lucky day has begun!

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