By Ben Mirin, CIR, on ConcordNanae.org and via Qik Live video
Last Friday, I showed this movie (in Japanese) to this year’s English Club at Nanae High School. Produced by Nanae student delegates who visited Concord in 2010, the movie documents Japanese middle- and high-school student observations about Concord-Carlisle High School, where the delegates spent a week attending classes, touring the campus, and experiencing American high school life.
After showing the movie I asked our English Club students to identify differences they noticed in the video between CCHS and their own NHS.
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Here’s what the Nanae students said:
Takanori Abe (2nd-year student, Class 2, 2011 Band Delegate to Concord):
It’s interesting that the bell at CCHS marks the end of class. I was very surprised. In Japan, the bell marks the start of class.
Chinami Takada (1st-year student), Akira Kimura (1st-year student, Class 3), & Shiori Wada (3rd-year student):
There is a big cafeteria in CCHS, but we have no cafeteria in our high school. Students in Concord also have no school uniform, just like university students in Japan.
Ayu Kosugi (3rd-year student):
Students in Concord can use computers freely at any time. We cannot.
Generally, I think CCHS is bigger than Nanae High School.
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