May 2010 Newsletter: Pangaea ring - Ms. Saeko Tezuka
I introduce Ms. Saeko Tezuka, as known as Saechi, as a Pangaea writer for
this month. I met her when I enrolled in MIT Media Lab. She started to actively
engage in Pangaea as a facilitator from last year.
Hello. My name is Saeko Tezuka. People call me "Saechi".
I am one of the Facilitators in Tokyo.
It's been quite some time since I first got to know Pangaea. I believe it was right after Pangaea had kicked off as a NPO. Yumi and Toshi, at that time, were working at the Media Lab, at MIT, in Boston, United States. I had the opportunity to visit the Lab through my work and they took very good care of me.I still remember when I first heard about the Pangaea project. It was at a fast food shop that we stopped at on our way to the suburbs of Boston.It is easy for me to vividly flash back to the scenery of the shop as well as my own self, deeply empathized with the story Yumi had shared with me. Soon after our meeting, Yumi and Toshi moved back to Tokyo and officially started the activities. As for me, it has taken much longer. It was not until last year, when my wish finally came true and I became a Facilitator for Pangaea activities. I believe the Tokyo branch is somewhat unique, compared with other branches, the number of which is expanding rapidly. We have many volunteer staffs who have been involved with Pangaea for a long time. In our branch, we hold lively discussions on what parts of Pangaea activities we need to keep as they are and what parts we wish to change. It is quite stimulating. Having the chance to work in the United States,where the cultural value was different from my own, allowed me to develop myself further as a person.
I have experienced both the difficulties as well as the joys of holding communications through that experience. I am therefore very much thrilled to imagine that Pangaea could bring about a completely new world for children in this era, when global communication has become so ordinary. At the moment, I work for a kitchen hardware manufacturer and I am a researcher of"The kitchen of the future". With regard to my work, I am very interested in "food culture". I hope that one day, I will be able to create a Pangaea activity through which the children of the world can share their ideas and experiences with "eating", as to what sort of things are common food in their area and what is not.
SAEKO TEZUKA
Cleanup Corporation
OISHII-KURASHI Living Laboratory
I am one of the Facilitators in Tokyo.
It's been quite some time since I first got to know Pangaea. I believe it was right after Pangaea had kicked off as a NPO. Yumi and Toshi, at that time, were working at the Media Lab, at MIT, in Boston, United States. I had the opportunity to visit the Lab through my work and they took very good care of me.I still remember when I first heard about the Pangaea project. It was at a fast food shop that we stopped at on our way to the suburbs of Boston.It is easy for me to vividly flash back to the scenery of the shop as well as my own self, deeply empathized with the story Yumi had shared with me. Soon after our meeting, Yumi and Toshi moved back to Tokyo and officially started the activities. As for me, it has taken much longer. It was not until last year, when my wish finally came true and I became a Facilitator for Pangaea activities. I believe the Tokyo branch is somewhat unique, compared with other branches, the number of which is expanding rapidly. We have many volunteer staffs who have been involved with Pangaea for a long time. In our branch, we hold lively discussions on what parts of Pangaea activities we need to keep as they are and what parts we wish to change. It is quite stimulating. Having the chance to work in the United States,where the cultural value was different from my own, allowed me to develop myself further as a person.
I have experienced both the difficulties as well as the joys of holding communications through that experience. I am therefore very much thrilled to imagine that Pangaea could bring about a completely new world for children in this era, when global communication has become so ordinary. At the moment, I work for a kitchen hardware manufacturer and I am a researcher of"The kitchen of the future". With regard to my work, I am very interested in "food culture". I hope that one day, I will be able to create a Pangaea activity through which the children of the world can share their ideas and experiences with "eating", as to what sort of things are common food in their area and what is not.
SAEKO TEZUKA
Cleanup Corporation
OISHII-KURASHI Living Laboratory
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