JENESYS 2017 Programme (Day 6, 7, 8)

September 24, Hotel Emion Tokyo Bay

            We moved to Iwate Numakunai station by chartered bus and headed to Tokyo by Shinkansen. Arrived in Tokyo, we were having lunch in the restaurant and headed back to Hotel Emion. That evening around 3pm we were having our workshop regarding the action plan.

September 25, Hotel Emion Tokyo Bay

            At 8.35am, we moved to the workshop venue and having our last workshop. After lunch, we straight away moved to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and be able to met the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and also listened to his speech. Next, we were moved to the reporting venue for reporting session. After all the representatives between all the themes presented their reporting session, we were having our farewell party. For team natural disasters, we provided 4 performances which are singing, traditional dancing combination from Thailand, Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia, SoranBushi dance performance and lastly cheers to the crowd. The SoranBushi dance is also known as fisherman dance and normally performed in schools or festivals.

September 26, Hotel Emion Tokyo Bay

            We were having our last breakfast and sharp 7am we were headed to the Narita Airport by chartered bus. We arrived in Malaysia around 5.00pm.

Conclusions

The JENESYS (Japan-East Asia Network of Exchange for Students and Youths) is a project advanced by the Japanese government from the standpoint of providing a sound foundation for strong solidarity within Asia through large-scale youth exchange whereby it aimed at promoting an mutual understanding and friendly relations. The organization for this programme is JICE (Japan International Cooperation Center) that conducting the programme in cooperation with various local governments, schools, and international exchange organizations in each area. There are participants all over ASEAN countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar. From this program, participants will learn about strengths, allures and values of Japan through various activities, such as observing cutting-edge technologies, visiting historic or scenic sites, observing local industries, and experiencing traditional cultures and subcultures. In addition, the participants will intermingle with Japanese citizens in school exchanges and homestay, creating a chance to develop trust and friendship with each other.

            From my point of view for the whole program in japan, I was very impressed with Japan in a way that it was a country of great technology for example the public transports such as the bullet train was the high-speed rail network known as shinkansen are able to running at speeds of up to 320 km/h and known for punctuality, comfort, safety whereby no fatal accidents in its history and efficiency. Besides, in term of natural disasters, even though Japan face so many disaster because Japan lies along the Pacific Ring of Fire where many of the world’s earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur, they manage to recover and handling the natural disaster very systematic and very fast. This is because of an early education and they educate the students as well as community on how to handle the disaster and steps that can be applied in that situation. Thus, whenever a disaster occur in that area, the community themselves know how to handle and together they help each other without depending solely on the government help because they already know what the next step that they have to do due to an early exposed before. This is one of the thing that should be apply to all countries not only to the countries that often experience it but also to all so that if anything could be happen, they can prepare early and minimize the damage or death. As we all know that they able to receive the information about the disaster easily and quickly due to the notification of disaster information through phone and also speaker around the area. This should be apply to all country so that the information will be widespread and the society can be ready in order to face the situation.

The push-enabled notification of disaster information in Japan

            The main thing that I learnt in Japan is everyone is very discipline and punctual whenever they are always anxious not to be late to their appointments and normally they will arrive 10 or 15 minutes before the scheduled time. Not only that, the people are very polite and very helpful to help even have a difficulties to communicate at first but they are very excited to help and explain what we want to know. Furthermore, I love the service in Japan as we know Asian countries always have much better hotel service than in the West, but Japan takes it to another level. This is because the service is very fast and satisfying, for example I have experienced with the staff in the hotel whereby I have a problem using the iron which the water is leaking (steam iron), so I called the service which apparently that time is already 9pm but the staff arrived just five minutes after I called and she fixed the iron just in a moment and I am very impressed for their services. Next, I love the cultures in Japan, one of the culture is bowing which is an important part of the Japanese culture. I bring that up instead others is because it is one of the many ways that Japanese people make an effort to show their respect to each other, and this is a perfect example of showing our respect to others.

All participants in Group A together with our foster families

SEH FOR LIFE

By: Syarifah Haniera, E14B0426 (4th year student; 1st Batch)

From this SEH program, I have been through so many experiences and knowledges not only about the subjects inside this course but also learn about the leadership and also teamwork inside it through the event and activities from it. Applied Science of Forest Resources Technology been changed me to the new person which I discovered myself to be more likely to love adventures and become a nature lover. As we know that in this program, we as a student been exposed to the real world in the forest and manage to discover variety of trees and types of forest. Not only that, we also learn about the type of timbers and their characteristics which help us to identify the strength and weaknesses of it to be determine of what type of product can be used from that timber itself. Moreover, we also have been exposed to design our own products and manage to learn to use the software like Autocad or Sketchup to design and this was my first time of learning it. Not only that, we also learn on how to do a map using GIS and all those knowledges on how to design a product or do a map with all those software are very helpful later. For example during the industrial training or perhaps to promote yourself to the companies outside and manage to stand by yourself and able to do better than others. So I am really proud of my course and this program has contribute many benefits and thus it should be a continued program in the future. Even though this program is still new and quite limited but on the bright side actually there are more opportunities and outcome from this program in the future ahead. LOVE SEH LOVE NATURE.

JENESYS 2017 Programme - Day 5

September 23, Kuji Iwate

            That beautiful morning, we all headed to the beach just before we are going back to Tokyo. Then, we handled our present to the family and headed to the cottage in Kuji. After lunch, we were having our workshop and also preparation for farewell party. Below show some pictures took from the beach.

In that workshop, we discussed about the action plan and the outcome of this programme and also our findings through this programme. 

Around 6pm we were having our farewell party together with our foster family and for our group, we provided singing performance to the audience. Farewell party finished and we accompanied our family to the bus and saying our last goodbye to them.

Send them off

It's really sad to say goodbye to them and really appreciate the hospitality and service provided by our foster family and JICE staffs. Love them <3

JENESYS 2017 Programme - Day 4

September 22, Kuji Iwate

            We are heading to Yokonuma Fishing Port and arrived there by 9.20am. It was a beautiful day and perfect day for fishing. We have been given the briefing about the earthquake and how the earthquake happens. There are so many information that we obtained from there and also got a chance to ask the fisherman about their experiences during the earthquake and how they loss their children and still they have survive and keep on living. Moreover, we were given the opportunity to have the experience to fishing with the fisherman on a boat. It was relaxing to be able doing it and enjoyed the view of the sea and be able to feel the breeze from it. Not only that, we are able to help the captain (fisherman) pulled out their catches for that day and be able to see the sea urchin and also taste it freshly and it was the best experience ever when you have an opportunity to go to this fishing port. 

At 11.45am, we having our lunch and moved to the Kuji Shopping Center and be able to spent one hour there buy souvenir for family and friends. Next, we moved to Kuji JC Park, Monument of the Great East Japan Earthquake. This monument was built as the symbol of the ascension for the victims of the tsunami. The black monument, ‘Tane-no-Ireihi’ is the seed that symbolizes citizens’ will to overcome the disaster and look ahead for the recovery. While the white monument, ‘Mebae-no-Tou’, illustrates the sprout growing from the seed. Moreover, the height of the white monument is 8.4 meters, which is the exact height of the 2011 tsunami wave that struck the Yuriage area.

We appeared in the Japan newspaper as the tribute to tsunami victims in the memorial park

After that, we all separated to our own foster family by bus. Once arrived, we introduced ourselves to the family and having a conversation to get to know each other better. On that evening, the mother took us to have a walk in the residential park and I discovered that the place is so clean and safe plus there were so many beautiful flowers and I discovered that this area they do love gardening and there were plants all over their houses. 

For bathing etiquette, you can't go into the water with your dirty body, that is only after you finished cleaning and have rinsed all the soap off your body, enter the bath tub once more for a final soaking. After leaving the tub, the water is usually left for the next member of the house. It is to keep the bath water clean for all members of the house that washing and rinsing is done outside of the actual bathtub. For more details just click on this link https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2002.html

At night, we were having dinner together and chit chat till late night just because we only have one day together with them and tomorrow we will be leaving. :(