March 26, 2007

 Mar 2007 Newsletter: Activity Report- Mariko Yamazaki

At the end of the last year, I had been worried about lacking of activity menu because children could make up their own work very quickly. After coming this new year, children enjoy new activity which has newly installed. We launched a new activity like designing the new logo mark; A of Pangaea. As you know, in our logo, children hold up their arms.

Every time we showed each base of works to other children by posting on the board. Even though some children finished designing logos quickly, they seemed to be stimulated by other works of different bases and created new design one after another.

"Cut'n'paste fashion show" is in vogue at the base of Ogikita. Children paint the latest style, cut and paste colored papers on the common format. A child said " I'd like to connect Pangaean net, but now I adore to enjoy Cut'n'paste fashion show". Some children used to have a quarrel in order to occupy few personal computers, but now we have a very peaceful time.

Children have astonished at communicating never seen friends who live in very far countries and have been absorbed in communicating them since Pangaean net is installed. They sometimes got their nerves because they were not able to receive replies from oversea. Atmosphere is now changing due to newly installed activity. Some children expect they can receive responces from oversea by creating a wonderful works. Now they make an effort to create works so much. A boy noticed that folding paper was Japanese original works and oversea children would be surprised. He is absorbed in folding papers by making use of a text book. Furthermore, he took some photos and asked us to be reported to "Pangaeam". The other boy change opinions for the latest style, cooperate with friends and create works. We cannot create this wonderful atmosphere by only using PCs.

I live in western part of Tokyo now. We rarely have caught in a shower which occurred in this season. At the center part of Tokyo, it is little bright.

A whole year of Pangaea has a dazzling variety of things, but it's very ordinary one. If we have a forward-looking style, we can look at a beautiful blue sky after catching a shower. By the end of March, all activities of this year in Tokyo will have been finished, but I hope we enjoy them very much as the end of the year.

Mariko Yamazaki

Posted by: kumakinoko | 3. Newsletter