【オーストラリア生徒のアンケート】
Ｑ１． How did you enjoy home stay? Is there anything you were impressed or bothered with?
・I absolutely adored my home stay visit. My host family are like my family to me, and they
were so kind looking after me. We have been in contact ever since nearly every day, and I
cannot wait to see them again.
・I enjoyed my homestay a lot. My family was very nice and was very good at English which
made communication easy and asking about anything Japan related very interesting andunderstandable.
・I really enjoyed my homestay. My host family was immediately so kind and welcoming andmade me feel so comfortable. They were always so considerate of me and what I would want.
I got to spend fine wishes everyone in the family and I had a lot of fun.
・Although I knew little Japanese and my host family didn’t know a lot of English we helped
each other try and learn the other’s language.
・I loved my homestay. I enjoyed the food and my host parents were so lovely.
・I enjoyed the stay it was good time and I appreciate them hosting me very very much. I wasimpressed that they did everything and in a way, it was very good. I think them very much.
・I loved my host family . They were so nice and kind to me. They provided everything for me.
including apples. The children were very good as well. They all helped me with my Japanese
so much and spoke English when I did not understand.
Ｑ２．What kind of Japanese food did you try? Did you like those?
・I tried sushi, ramen, mattcha ice cream and more. I liked pretty much everything.
・I tried so much; sushi, oden, tempura, gohan…I loved everything.
・I had a lot of different foods in Japan. I wasn’t sure what I was eating all of the time, but I
liked everything expect some of the things in おでん(?). I tried foods like さしみ and also justthe different combination like having rice,ヨーグルト, a bread roll, miso soup, and some kindof meet for breakfast.
・I eat a lot of Japanese food at home so most od the foods we had I had already tried.
・Onigiri, I didn’t really like it. Sushi, I liked it. Ramen, I liked Gyoza, I loved.
・I tried so many different dishes. I cannot remember them all. I even tried Natto. Though I did
not like it. Other than that, it was all amazing.
・I tried cold ramen, miso soup, and a few other things. They were all very delicious.
Ｑ３．How did you enjoy Tokyo and Kamakura SIGHTSEEING? (Asakusa、Harajuku，National Diet
Edo-Tokyo Museum,Kamakura : Tsurugaoka Hachimangu, Great Buddha, Hase Temple, etc.．)
・I really enjoyed sightseeing around Tokyo and Kamakura. Not only was it interesting
compared to Mobara but compared to Australia.
・I found it really interesting to go to all there places and to see such a variety of Tokyo. I didfind it trying to do a lot in a day but it was really interesting.
・I thought it was very fun and very interesting to learn about the culture in Japan.
・So much fun.
・Sightseeing was very fun. The different places we visited were exciting and helped us see into
the history of Japan.
・Sightseeing in Tokyo was very cool because we got to see a wide variety of things. The temples
were especially interesting and they were all very beautiful.

Ｑ４．What was your impression of Japanese High School and its students? Did you find any difference
between your school and Japanese High School? What were those?

※Mobara Hokuryo High School（茂原北陵高等学校）(Sep 19)
・I was so impressed by the trouble this school took to plan for our visit. The fact that they linked
the textiles class to the cooking class by making materials for us to use in the cooking class
was amazing. The school was overall so friendly and welcoming. I think this school is similar
to Fairhills in that it is very welcoming, and provides classes for students with a wide rangeof interests.
・It was very big and quite different but it was one of my favorite schools. The students werevery nice.
・This was a good school to start with because we were given a cultural experience by trying ormaking おべんとう. The girl was very nice thought it was a bit talking with them. They werea very nice school though and a great place start.
・We tried on Kimono and made bento. It was interesting to learn how to make the rolled egg
which I had never made before. The kimono was very beautiful and the students were veryfriendly.
・Everyone was so lovely and welcoming.
・This was the first school, they were lovely! They made us Yukata to wear and helped us makes
Obento for lunch. I felt like a welcoming.
・They used chalk and blackboard instead whiteboard and marker. The seats are smaller andseparate. The students welcomed us and prepared fun activities like kimono and obento.
※Otaki High School（千葉県立大多喜高等学校）(Sep20)
・I thought it was a great idea for the Japanese students to come to Otaki Castle with us andhelp try on samurai wear. This helped my students through the experience, and was also agreat way to communicate.
・I really like the students at this school, they were very nice and caring.
・My favorite school that we went to.Laterally everyone was so friendly and welcoming and theteaches were all the same. I found it really interesting to be in the classes, especially belong
the only one in the class, and ahead. I also got to play basketball at lunch which was cool.
・We went to the classes of one students and then we went to Otaki castle were we learnt its
history and tried on samurai amount and kimono. The students who helped us wear nice andreally helpful.
・My favorite school by far.
・This was my favorite school, they welcomed us so much. I felt like, I’d been going to that schoolfor years. My host student Ai was beautiful. I wise her so much. I made so many friends. They
were so helpful with the traditional Japanese dress, samurai amount and calligraphy.
・The students were so kind. They helped us put out customs on so carefully and I found it
saying thank you very much.
※Chosei High School（千葉県立長生高等学校）(Sep 21)
・I really enjoyed the tsuru kame maths lesson, and the koto lesson. I found it was a bit
uncomfortable having the Nossal group there as well. It would have been better to interact
with the Chosei students
・It was very big and interesting even compared to the schools in Japan.
・It was interesting to go to English conversation class and to learn the Japanese style mathes.
Calligraphy was interesting to do and was different then it was at Otaki. I really enjoyedlearning Koto interesting. We did though not get to immerse with the students expect for
English conversation. Class but they didn’t really all the English teacher though was great. I
also was surprised are how difficult English for Japanese, there is no way we would have toknow that vocab in VCG Japanese.
・Our class that we were put with didn’t seem to like us. The rest of the school loved us though.
・I enjoyed this school, everyone was so shy. It was so cute. Everyone was kind and helpful.
・I was impressed by the English teachers. The vocab they had.
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・The main class we were put with was a very quiet class, so it seemed very difficult for mystudents to communicate with them, despite trying. The kanji and history lessons werefascinating though, and I was impressed by the teachers’ efforts to prepare these classes.
・The people/students in our class didn’t really likes us I think but the rest of the school wasnice.
・Here we met our first foreign teachers so that was interesting. They also gave us a fewof the school and it was so interesting to see how much resources the school has,particular for sport and international learning. The class we were paired with didn't
really speech to us though so I found. I couldn't speech to them. It was reallyinteresting to do different class.
・We were assignees to a class and we went to all their classes. All the students andteachers were really nice.
・The junior high school was wonderful, the people made me smile.
・This was my least favorite school.
・The student I was with was really nice and helped me write the furugana on top ofkanji I didn't know and explain meanings of word. I didn't know when I asked. But I
wasn't sure if that particular class was just shy because they didn’t seem excited.
The school seemed to have good education.
※Daito Bunka University of Daiichi High School（大東文化大学第一高等学校）(Sep 26)
・I thought it was a good idea to introduce us to the Canadian students, and do some activities
with them and the Japanese students. I was very impressed by the calligraphy club at thisschool.
・It was also quite a good school. The people were really nice and we played games with Japaneseand some Canadian students which really helped.
・I was a bit disappointed that for our final school we weren’t in the classroom but we playedsome really fun games and calligraphy. It was really interesting to meet the Canadian boys
over an exchange and to mix in with them and the Japanese students of the school.
・We played games where we had 10 translate questions between Japanese and English. It was
really fun to try and understand the questions and tested our language skills.
・A great note to end on. Everybody was very friendly and kind.
・The students were incredibly nice, so polite and were just like us, nosing as well.
・The students are nice, I cannot really remember this school very well.
Ｑ５．What Japanese did you often use in Japan?
・Basic Japanese greeting.
・はい／いいえ・たのしい／たのしかったです・おいしい／おいしかったです
・こんにちは・もう一どおねがいします・おやすみなさい・ともだち
・これは何ですか・ありがとうございます
・行きましょう・すみません・好きです・ごめんなさい・おはようございます・いただきます／ごちそうさまでした
・どうぞよろしくおねがいします・だいじょうぶですか？
・あつい・かわいい・さよなら・はじめまして

Ｑ６．What did you learn about Japan and Japanese people?
・They are very peaceful, minding their own business also very time conscious.
・Schools are really tall and homerooms are a thing. Japanese really are as polite as people shy.
Meals have much more of a range of food, but always have rice.
Everyone is so friendly and are so welcoming.
・They’re the absolute nicest people in the universe and I love it here.
・Japan is extremely clean and the people are super nice.
・I learnt the it is not that different to Australia, it is quite similar to Australia, but exclude
language and culture.
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【ホストファミリーのアンケート】
Ｑ１『今回ホームステイを引き受けようと考えたのはどうしてですか？』・我が家の恒例になっており、家族も毎回楽しみにしています。
普段、」外国人との接点がなく互いの文化、考え方の違いを共有したいと思います。
・６年ほど前に次男が交換留学生としてオーストラリア、アデレードの高校へ１年間留学をしていました。
その際には、ホストファミリーに大変お世話になりましたので、その恩返しができればと思い引き受けました。
・子供たちのために良いと思い受けようと思いました。
・先生に滞在中の安らぎを感じて頂きたいと思いお引き受けしました。
・以前、引き受けたこともあり、国際交流を通じて文化の違いを感じたりしながらも楽しくコミュンケーシ
ョンをとることができるから。
・外国の若人に日本の事を知ってもらえる事が嬉しいです。思い出がたくさん残って、家族の会話がより増えて楽しみです。
・外国人と交流したかったため。

Ｑ２『ホームステイ引き受けにあたりどのような準備をしましたか？
・今回は、ベジタリアンの生徒さんでしたので、食事の面で色々調べながら準備をしました。
・ホームステイ中に使用する部屋のベッド、水廻りの点検と掃除をした程度です。
・特にありません。
・喘息の持病が悪化しない様、ほこりに気遣いました。
・寝室の準備と食事のメニューを考えた。また滞在中に家庭（家族）で一緒に体験できることを考えた。
・箸と湯呑み、電子辞書、ランチパック、歯ブラシ、お土産の購入
・特別な準備等はなく、自然でありのままでした。

Ｑ３『夕食後はどのように過ごしましたか？』・お互いの家族の事や学校や地域の事を話し合いました。
・自営のため、夕食が少し遅めで、夕食後はシャワーを浴びてそのまま就寝しました。
・みんなで話しをしていました。
・学校、PTA への報告、リポート作成、酸素吸入、多忙な食後で会話を少々翌日の準備、入浴等、大変多忙の様子。
・家族で DVD 鑑賞、カラオケ、ゲームセンター（プリクラ）、日本語の勉強・アルバムを見ながら家族の事、趣味の事などお喋りをし、オーストラリアの選挙制度や州の制度、学制のことなど教えてもらい、多くは会話が中心でした。
・翌日の行動予定を打合せた後は、テレビを見ながら色々と意見交換をしていました。

Ｑ４『今回のホームステイ引き受けは、お子様やご家庭に影響を与えましたか？』・国際交流を肌で感じ、家族の英会話力の向上に良い影響があった。
・メルボルンを知らない、ここまできた。一度は日常を知りたいと思った。
・オーストラリアと日本の違いを知る事ができました。
・家の中が明るくなった、。
・ベジタリアンの生徒と接する事で食に関する価値観の違いなどを理解しようとする事で相手を食の面でも尊重しようと思えた。
・思い出の料理ができました。若い女の子の元気が活力を残してくれました。私達も必ずオーストラリアに行こうと思いました。
・初めは多少の不安もありましたが、案ずるより産むがやすしで、良い体験になり自信がつきました。

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Ｑ５『ご意見･ご感想』
・１日一緒に過ごせる日があり、お互いにコミュニケーションを深める事が出来て良かった。
食事の好き嫌いや、学校への持ち物などのリストは役に立ちました。
日本滞在中の全工程表があったので、行動が把握でき、話題の一部として活用できて良かった。
・ツアーでは得られない日常の医療、経済、生活、犬の情報等がお聞き出来て良かった。
家がリフォーム中、関係者が出入り、前年のスケジュールにあわせてリフォーム計画をしたが、予定が変更になり双方に迷惑をかけた。
・アレルギーがひどい子の場合は、初めにどれくらいなのか教えてほしいです。
命にかかわる場合が怖いので。
・オーストラリアの高校生と触れ合う事が出来てとても楽しかったです。家の中でも歌ったり、踊ったりととても明るい高校生でした。無邪気な女の子でしたから良かったです。
・特にありません。
毎回いろんな生徒さんが来てくれて、それぞれの個性と向き合う事を楽しみにしています。
・言葉や文化の異なる人でも誠意があれば意志の疎通が図れると思います。出来れば現地で受入れる前に日本の生活習慣やマナーについて多少の予備知識をつけてからの方がオーストラリア学生も安心だと思います。短期間でしたが、異文化の人達と共に生活する事が出来て大変良い体験になりました。
・オーストラリア学生さんは、簡単な会話が理解でき助かりました。

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