Feb 2007 Newsletter: Yumi's Monthly Note
We have been conducting a major reforming of our HP lately. Thanks
to the great help given by our "super-volunteer" Ms. Edahiro, we now
have better understanding and clearer vision of who we want to reach,
and where we need more work. Ms. Edahiro has been dedicated so much
of her time and skills for us. We now have a "blog" titled as
"What's New" which either myself, Takasaki or Kumakinoko (our official
mascot) put the news up on the web whenever possible. (I must admit
I finally learned how to put my writing up on the blog recently.)
So, those who haven't checked out our blog, please do!
Our project in Mie pref. has been kicked-off. Lottery was given to
choose the participants as we had more than 20 applicants.
The children all come from various schools. The background of the
new facilitators in Mie is also diverse and is very multicultural.
Out of all the facilitators, we have three who are working as English
teaching assistants their Japanese language ability is rather limited
or very limited. The Pangaea activity, however, easily breaks that
language barrier. We started with Fun Ice break activity.
I was expecting January to be a very busy month. Just as I figured, we had the kick-off of our Mie Site, the general meeting of the board, two presentations at the academic conferences, as well as our development work, and three regular activities. I prefer being busy than having plenty of spare time, because the reason I have no days off comes from the fact that our activity has been catching more attention by bigger number of business organizations, who are interested in getting to know more about us. At the meeting with the board of directors, we were pointed out that it is time for us to pull ourselves out of the precarious day-to-day management. Well, the day-to-day management is not really what we have intended to do, however, this is how I feel lately. Suppose we receive a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, we need to focus on spending it to achieve our goals by carefully examining where we actually stand. Otherwise, we might end up ruining the whole organization we have made what it is today. ‘What is important is for you to have is not so much the size of the organization but the winning pattern'. I recall the word of a man of wisdom whose name was rather like one of a ra-men noodle shop. Pangaea is small, but I believe we have got the winning pattern now. It is time to evolve ourselves to move on to the next phase. Please stay with us and we thank you for your support and guidance as always.
Yumiko Mori
I was expecting January to be a very busy month. Just as I figured, we had the kick-off of our Mie Site, the general meeting of the board, two presentations at the academic conferences, as well as our development work, and three regular activities. I prefer being busy than having plenty of spare time, because the reason I have no days off comes from the fact that our activity has been catching more attention by bigger number of business organizations, who are interested in getting to know more about us. At the meeting with the board of directors, we were pointed out that it is time for us to pull ourselves out of the precarious day-to-day management. Well, the day-to-day management is not really what we have intended to do, however, this is how I feel lately. Suppose we receive a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, we need to focus on spending it to achieve our goals by carefully examining where we actually stand. Otherwise, we might end up ruining the whole organization we have made what it is today. ‘What is important is for you to have is not so much the size of the organization but the winning pattern'. I recall the word of a man of wisdom whose name was rather like one of a ra-men noodle shop. Pangaea is small, but I believe we have got the winning pattern now. It is time to evolve ourselves to move on to the next phase. Please stay with us and we thank you for your support and guidance as always.
Yumiko Mori
Posted by: kumakinoko | 3. Newsletter
