2 new locations established!
It's been decided that we will launch Pangaea in January at the Kyoto International School, Kyoto. Starting in mid-January. We will be holding events once a week, until now we've not had 4 events in one month, but if this goes well we are thinking perhaps of afterwards trying after school activities at other schools. Furthermore, at the end of January we are launching a 2nd base in Malaysia at Bario. Bario is a place in the unexplored highlands in Sarawak, Borneo. It said on the T.V. that it has been recently discovered that 1500 orangutans live near there. However, since the 1st location in Malaysia, Unimas, started the project 10 years ago, it seems that they have been able to connect to the internet. It's certainly thanks to Unimas thinking being involved with Pangaea is a really great thing, that this Bario project has been carried out.
I'm scared of taking a bath with a bucket and hearing bugs scrabble about. Although there are a lot of people at NPOs that like those kind of things, I'm actually scared of insects. As I was born and raised in places like Osaka with neon lights in the centre making even night-time bright, I'm equally bad at the pitch dark as I am with bugs. Taking lots of mosquito coils and insect repellent so far I've been to Kenya and Cambodia. As this time local people will be managing things after the launch and introductions, we will be doing remote support via VisualScenario, which we've used up till now, and a multilingual community site using a language grid to enable us to understand situations, (somehow, Ishida-sensei tried really hard and talked to Google, and the number of languages available dramatically increased, there is even Malay now. Awesome!). If this goes well, we will be bringing this to show at Unesco Headquarters in the summer. Staring at my hands, working here, up till now has been 5 years. Well, got to fly!
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