September 2009 Newsletter: Yumi's Monthly Note
I am writing this in Kyoto where the dragonfly season has begun.We held the Pangaea Seminar& Workshop 2009 on August 22- 23 in Tokyo. It had been a long time since we last had this kind of event in Tokyo. Some folks, who had gotten details of the event on our website, told us how excited they were to learn something new from our seminars and workshops as they registered for our event. Last year, we invited mainly our volunteers. But this year we asked non-members as well as our members to attend our seminars and workshops. We appreciate that many people joined us to expand their knowledge. Especially, we are thankful for those who participated in from Mie and Kyoto, for they needed to spend extra time and money on traveling to Tokyo. For more specifics, please go check out Toshi's blog. He has more interesting stories to tell.
Personally, I learned a lot by attending our seminars and worships.
We invited three super experts, Mr. Inoue, Ishida, and Machino, as our guest
speakers. They shared their viewpoints regarding communications, information,
and/or social business. To be honest, I am somewhat "allergic" to lectures
because I have a hard time with lecturers who love to hypnotize me by making
their lectures hard to follow. However, I didn't experience any allergic
reactions this time. Rather, I was captivated by the lectures delivered by our
guest speakers. Their lectures were very clear and easy to understand.
They truly know how to communicate with their audience. That's why we call
them experts. After the lectures, I received feedback from our attendees:
"Those lectures were worthy paying!" Actually, the comment made us feel
relieved because we had had mixed feelings about asking a fee for attending
our lectures- for the first time.
In the evening, we all dined out at a "fishing restaurant," where we can enjoy fishing and tasting the fish we catch, in order to offer a fun- filled social gathering to our event participants, staff, and guests. I tried fishing and hooked a sea bream less than 5 seconds. Yup, I can be a qualified fisherwoman! So did Mr. Inoue. He caught a sea bream. Dr. Ishida got a giant flatfish. The chef at the restaurant cut the fish we caught to make "sashimi" for all of us. We all enjoyed not only our dinner, but also our conversations as well regardless of age and career. It seemed that everyone experienced a real social gathering at the restaurant. I definitely want to have this kind of event next year again. Hope you will join us next time!
Currently, "H1N1" virus has been active in Japan. I am hoping our activities won't be affected by H1N1 flu. Don't forget to wash your hands and gargle!
Mr. Hitoshi Susano is our Pangaea Ring writer for this month. Currently, he is serving as professor for Mie University Integrated Center for Education Research and Practice. He has been an active liaison between Mie University and Pangaea since this academic year started. We thank Mr. Susano for his contributions to our project: we now have many new facilitators at Mie University who were recruited by Mr. Susano.
Yumi
In the evening, we all dined out at a "fishing restaurant," where we can enjoy fishing and tasting the fish we catch, in order to offer a fun- filled social gathering to our event participants, staff, and guests. I tried fishing and hooked a sea bream less than 5 seconds. Yup, I can be a qualified fisherwoman! So did Mr. Inoue. He caught a sea bream. Dr. Ishida got a giant flatfish. The chef at the restaurant cut the fish we caught to make "sashimi" for all of us. We all enjoyed not only our dinner, but also our conversations as well regardless of age and career. It seemed that everyone experienced a real social gathering at the restaurant. I definitely want to have this kind of event next year again. Hope you will join us next time!
Currently, "H1N1" virus has been active in Japan. I am hoping our activities won't be affected by H1N1 flu. Don't forget to wash your hands and gargle!
Mr. Hitoshi Susano is our Pangaea Ring writer for this month. Currently, he is serving as professor for Mie University Integrated Center for Education Research and Practice. He has been an active liaison between Mie University and Pangaea since this academic year started. We thank Mr. Susano for his contributions to our project: we now have many new facilitators at Mie University who were recruited by Mr. Susano.
Yumi
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