Today was a very interesting day here is Japan. My fellow students and myself visited a elementary school. We taught a English song to 90 grade six students and had a tour of the school. I am really happy with how our song and story went over, the students played along and sang the song. After the lesson we taught there was a time for questions from the students, the questions started off slowly with only a small amount of students asking, after a few warm up questions the students became more comfortable and started to ask us about Canada and if we had heard of famous Japanese singers and celebrities. They had a real desire to know more about Canada and also to know what Canadians think about them and their country. They asked us if we had heard about the earthquake they had in Japan, it really made it clear to me that the information we heard about the disaster being in the north of Japan was false. We are in the north of Japan and the disaster was 700 km away from here. The students and staff of the school were very warm and welcoming to all of us Canadian visitors and it made us feel at home.

Jon