May 2011 Newsletter: Yumi's Monthly Note
Hello, everyone.We are going to start OKWave Pangaea activity from the fourth week of May at Ebisu, Tokyo. We take this opportunity to enhance our safety management policies and procedures for the safety of volunteers and participants, and are revising the safety manual for that purpose.
In Kyoto, "Kaba-chan" who participated as a facilitator last year
took Facilitator Leader (FL) training. She prepared well-organized
agenda by herself and started as FL to lead the activity. Kaba-chan
is a senior at medical school of Kyoto Univ. She was uplifted
despite her hay fever and other volunteers praised her ingenious menu
structure and gave her a hand.
One of the new participating children was a girl who used to come to Pangaea with her mother who was picking up her two older brothers who were Pangaea participants, when she was too young to join Pangaea herself. One of her brother (one in the middle) also came back to Pangaea after some break. Seeing how much he grew, I and Toshi could not help but feel that we are getting old…
Children's characteristics vary even if they belong to the same site or their grades are the same. Children made new discoveries when we did "Tako Introduction" at the beginning of the school year because of these differences.
Children in both Kyoto Univ. ("Kyodai") and Kyoto International School ("KIS") villages wrote messages for the ones in Tokyo to cheer them up, as they have not been able to participate in Pangaea activities for two months. Many children sent picton messages, too.
"Hanaphoo", who supported our Admin Office for many years till last month has left Pangaea, and we welcomed two new staffs at our Admin Office. One is "Hiyayakko" or Ayako. She worked for Citibank and other large firms before Pangaea and joined us as PR / Communication Director. She must be surprised and confused every day because of the different experience from the large company, but she seems to enjoy it as well. She is an active person who likes jogging unlike others in Pangaea HQ, and is reliable.
The other staff, "Date-chan" is a lady like a dandelion. We still have handovers to complete, but I have a good feeling about the new team.
I went to Seoul this month as well on the business trip. It has been decided that Sophia is going to take the doctor's course at prestigious Seoul Univ., so we met new person who will be in charge of Pangaea and gave Facilitator (F) training, which was participated by more than ten people. Pangaea is fiercely popular in Korea and it receives twice as many applications as its capacity. Sophia will be participating at the time of trainings and Webcams.
"Nino" or Prof. Ninomiya from Institute for Sustainable Agro-ecosystem Services, The University of Tokyo kindly agreed to write an article for Pangaea Ring this month. He not only participated in our YMC-Viet project, but also took the trouble of coming to see Pangaea Webcam and local activities at Kyoto Univ.
One of the new participating children was a girl who used to come to Pangaea with her mother who was picking up her two older brothers who were Pangaea participants, when she was too young to join Pangaea herself. One of her brother (one in the middle) also came back to Pangaea after some break. Seeing how much he grew, I and Toshi could not help but feel that we are getting old…
Children's characteristics vary even if they belong to the same site or their grades are the same. Children made new discoveries when we did "Tako Introduction" at the beginning of the school year because of these differences.
Children in both Kyoto Univ. ("Kyodai") and Kyoto International School ("KIS") villages wrote messages for the ones in Tokyo to cheer them up, as they have not been able to participate in Pangaea activities for two months. Many children sent picton messages, too.
"Hanaphoo", who supported our Admin Office for many years till last month has left Pangaea, and we welcomed two new staffs at our Admin Office. One is "Hiyayakko" or Ayako. She worked for Citibank and other large firms before Pangaea and joined us as PR / Communication Director. She must be surprised and confused every day because of the different experience from the large company, but she seems to enjoy it as well. She is an active person who likes jogging unlike others in Pangaea HQ, and is reliable.
The other staff, "Date-chan" is a lady like a dandelion. We still have handovers to complete, but I have a good feeling about the new team.
I went to Seoul this month as well on the business trip. It has been decided that Sophia is going to take the doctor's course at prestigious Seoul Univ., so we met new person who will be in charge of Pangaea and gave Facilitator (F) training, which was participated by more than ten people. Pangaea is fiercely popular in Korea and it receives twice as many applications as its capacity. Sophia will be participating at the time of trainings and Webcams.
"Nino" or Prof. Ninomiya from Institute for Sustainable Agro-ecosystem Services, The University of Tokyo kindly agreed to write an article for Pangaea Ring this month. He not only participated in our YMC-Viet project, but also took the trouble of coming to see Pangaea Webcam and local activities at Kyoto Univ.
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