October 2010 Newsletter: Pangaea ring - Ms. Cho Hye Yeon
Well, I introduce the Pangaea ring writer for this month, Ms. Cho Hye Yeon,
known as ToTo, a staff at Mapo Youth Culture Center. The location of
Pangaea activity in Korea moved to MYCC from this April and she became
the key person to manage the activity.
Hello everyone!
My name is Cho Hye Yeon, known as ToTo, and I work at the Mapo Youth Culture Center (MYCC) here in Mapo-gu, Seoul, Korea.
Pangaea project was launched at MYCC in April 2010 with 24 participating youths. MYCC is an institution designed to develop and implement various activities and programs for youths.
Pangaea program runs twice a month at MYCC, and currently have multiple Webcam exchanges from Tokyo and Mie, Japan. Among with many other programs we run, I find interests to be able to meet various people through Pangaea activities. After six months of working with Pangaea I see changes not only with participating children, but also within staffs and myself.
Children started to take interests to the world, and seems to be able to consider others who live in different countries. I think it is the charm Pangaea program offers, which we all can be friends through such international communication program. Their favorites are Webcam activity and also meeting with facilitators.
On this September 11th, we did Webcam activity with Tokyo, Japan as we all see each other's faces. We run Webcam on June with Mie prefecture.
On this September occasion, children started to memorize many names ofJapanese friends as our children are getting more familiar with Webcam. Although it was through projector screen, they were very excited and joyed a lot. They expressed happiness when they introduce themselves, then their names were called by friends in Japan. Also through "Nazoren" and "Matching Game", they were gaining understanding about different cultures. They wondered that several teams in Japan named "Lemon", for what is "Yellow".
I strongly hope to have international communication through ICT with many other Pangaea participating countries. Also I wish more youth centers in Korea will participate program like this for youths.
Through Pangaea, we learned how to understand other countries and the world. Children and facilitators also learned that without being able to speak the same language, we can become friends.
I hope to learn more about the world through Pangaea.
Thank you,
Cho Hye Yeon
Mapo Youth Culture Center
Youth Activity Team Manager
My name is Cho Hye Yeon, known as ToTo, and I work at the Mapo Youth Culture Center (MYCC) here in Mapo-gu, Seoul, Korea.
Pangaea project was launched at MYCC in April 2010 with 24 participating youths. MYCC is an institution designed to develop and implement various activities and programs for youths.
Pangaea program runs twice a month at MYCC, and currently have multiple Webcam exchanges from Tokyo and Mie, Japan. Among with many other programs we run, I find interests to be able to meet various people through Pangaea activities. After six months of working with Pangaea I see changes not only with participating children, but also within staffs and myself.
Children started to take interests to the world, and seems to be able to consider others who live in different countries. I think it is the charm Pangaea program offers, which we all can be friends through such international communication program. Their favorites are Webcam activity and also meeting with facilitators.
On this September 11th, we did Webcam activity with Tokyo, Japan as we all see each other's faces. We run Webcam on June with Mie prefecture.
On this September occasion, children started to memorize many names ofJapanese friends as our children are getting more familiar with Webcam. Although it was through projector screen, they were very excited and joyed a lot. They expressed happiness when they introduce themselves, then their names were called by friends in Japan. Also through "Nazoren" and "Matching Game", they were gaining understanding about different cultures. They wondered that several teams in Japan named "Lemon", for what is "Yellow".
I strongly hope to have international communication through ICT with many other Pangaea participating countries. Also I wish more youth centers in Korea will participate program like this for youths.
Through Pangaea, we learned how to understand other countries and the world. Children and facilitators also learned that without being able to speak the same language, we can become friends.
I hope to learn more about the world through Pangaea.
Thank you,
Cho Hye Yeon
Mapo Youth Culture Center
Youth Activity Team Manager
Posted by: kumakinoko | 4. Pangaea Ring
