February 2010 Newsletter: Pangaea ring - Mr. Toshihide Yoshioka
How do you do. I am Toshihide Yoshioka. I have been a technology volunteer for Pangaea since April 2008. I am based in Kyoto and everyone calls me 'Yoshio'. It's nice meeting with you all (on-line) I first learned about Pangaea from Kadoppe, a senior at my college. One day, it happened that we went out drinking with some of my friends and Kadoppe told us in detail about his own research. He mentioned the Pangaea during his talk about his research. I got so excited about hearing about the Pangaea activities and conveyed my wishes to Kadoppe that I would definitely love to join and take part in the activities my own, thinking that there would not be so many opportunities for me to deal with such a big theme as the world peace. Kadoppe encouraged me to do my best and then introduced me to Toshi. I was then enrolled in the Pangaea activities.
As I started getting to know the children at the activities, they would innocently
come up to talk to me and I found it very easy to make friends with them. I find
the children's interesting world of imagination and how they act are quite educating
for me. I believe that the children's getting experiences of communicating with
their friends overseas using the Pictons at Pangaea activities will play an
important and meaningful role in their own future. I would be happy if the children
who are participating the Pangaea activities now will come back to Pangaea as
facilitators.
I also joined internship at Pangaea. What I was assigned to do as an intern was to learn programming and in the end, to create the page for 'voting'. This site will allow the children to draw the picture of places where they are interested in going to and upload the drawings on the site so that the other children can vote for those places. These pictures were drawn by the children in Kyoto and Korea (Seoul), I was truly happy when the site was completed in the end with the support and guidance by Toshi. I felt it a special experience that I was able to provide the children from different countries with the 'place' on line where they were able to associate with each other.
I have recently been involved in the Pangaea activities as a technical leader at the activities held in Kyoto, doing some administrative work in the management office, as well as participating at the activities held every Monday at Kyoto International school as a technical staff. I especially enjoy spending my time at Kyoto International School, the new environment for me, where the children and the facilitators all speak in English. I find it very exciting. I am on the stage of trying to get myself used to speaking in English but I am very much inspired and I hope to improve my English ability myself to be able to people overseas.
I see who I am now and who I was before participating in the Pangaea activities totally different. I have been able to meet with so many new people, learn so many new things gaining valuable experiences through Pangaea. I am looking forward to continuing taking part in the Pangaea activities as much as I can.
Thank you!
Doshisha University Graduate School of Engineering
Information and Computer Science
Toshihide Yoshioka
I also joined internship at Pangaea. What I was assigned to do as an intern was to learn programming and in the end, to create the page for 'voting'. This site will allow the children to draw the picture of places where they are interested in going to and upload the drawings on the site so that the other children can vote for those places. These pictures were drawn by the children in Kyoto and Korea (Seoul), I was truly happy when the site was completed in the end with the support and guidance by Toshi. I felt it a special experience that I was able to provide the children from different countries with the 'place' on line where they were able to associate with each other.
I have recently been involved in the Pangaea activities as a technical leader at the activities held in Kyoto, doing some administrative work in the management office, as well as participating at the activities held every Monday at Kyoto International school as a technical staff. I especially enjoy spending my time at Kyoto International School, the new environment for me, where the children and the facilitators all speak in English. I find it very exciting. I am on the stage of trying to get myself used to speaking in English but I am very much inspired and I hope to improve my English ability myself to be able to people overseas.
I see who I am now and who I was before participating in the Pangaea activities totally different. I have been able to meet with so many new people, learn so many new things gaining valuable experiences through Pangaea. I am looking forward to continuing taking part in the Pangaea activities as much as I can.
Thank you!
Doshisha University Graduate School of Engineering
Information and Computer Science
Toshihide Yoshioka
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