Video: Medley Arao
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Video: Love Me Tender
If you have been following our program or our blog, you have no doubt heard about our “Arigato Event.” Performed near the end of each of our stays, the event is a way for us to say Thank You to the communities and host families who have worked so hard to bring us into their world. These communities do most of the work needed to make World Campus International a success. In each of our events, there is a section that highlights the talents and creativity of our participants. This summer we had some members who decided that their talents went better together than on their own. Having never met before the program, these participants put a little Elvis, some Sax, a vocal rhythm track, a traditional Japanese instrument, and a world class voice together to create this amazing rendition of the classic, “Love Me Tender.”  This is a word we learned that roughly means “Please be (so) delicious!” in English. The chant was very popular among World Campus International members, so we often said it to our food before eating. In Hiroshima, we learned how to cook the special ‘Hiroshima Okonomiyaki’. The ingredients included cabbage, eggs and meat. The chef told us there is no way we can make a mistake during cooking. For example, if the base of the Okonomiyaki dough tore, it can be easily fixed by adding more batter. After having fun cooking, we enjoyed our tasty masterpiece for lunch. Next, we went to Miyajima, a World Heritage Site. It is famous because of the Itsukushima Shrine and the humungous orange gate in the sea. People say that a god protects the island of Miyajima. We hung around there, browsing the many interesting shops and taking many beautiful pictures. It was so much fun! (Nozomi Mizukami, Japan)  Walking through the Trash Treatment Center in Hiroshima, I felt like I was in an amusement park. There were moving claws, shaped like spiders, used to grab tons of trash to be incinerated. I found this so amazing! I was also fascinated that the facility’s operation room had many computer screens to monitor different movements within the center. The staff who introduced the systems to us was very kind to answer all of my small questions. From my learning that day, it was a great chance for me to reconsider environmental problems. (Tetsutaro Soma, Japan)  One month ago, World Campus International went to the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum and listened to a speech from one of the survivors, Mr. Katsuji Yoshida. For all of us, that experience was very emotional and meaningful. When we were in the Hiroshima Peace Museum, Mr. Kasufumi Shintaku, who is a survivor of the A-bomb on August 6th, also shared his personal memories with us. More than 60 years has passed since the end of the second World War. When I stood at the hypocenter in Hiroshima, in the very place where the bomb dropped, I felt that history was so close, yet so far away. Looking around the area, Hiroshima existed under the bright summer sunshine and I could not imagine that this was the place that an A-bomb nearly destroyed… The colorful tiny paper cranes surrounding the monument were a sign telling us that people have never forgotten the horrible tragedy. When Mr. Shintaku shared his memories with us, we saw the cruel picture after the bomb dropped. We heard about a little child who cried for her parents, we felt the helplessness of the citizens and we all cried. I remember the sentence Mr. Yoshida wrote to us in the Nagasaki Museum, “The basis of peace is for people to understand the pain of others”. I believe that anyone who has the same chance to hear such a personal painful recollection will realize how important peace is and will put forth their best effort to never let that same tragedy happen again. (Zuxin Hou, China) |
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