Aim of Study Tour
1. To experience different cultures and see the reality of the world and to think what we can do.
実際に自分の目で見ることで、それぞれの国の文化や抱えている問題を知り、自分には何ができるか考えること
2. To feel and understand “Global Community” throughcommunicating with local people andOST members.

現地や OST メンバーとの交流を通して、「地球社会（世界とのつながり）」を感じること
3. To motivate each other and try harder to achieve higher goals.
お互いに積極的に挑戦しようとする力、さらに高い目標に向かって努力しようという意欲を高めること

1Different language was very hard, but enjoy together withThai friends, We think to know each other is veryimportant because we think
conflicts happen when wedon’t know each other’scountries.

Peace is born from our hearts

We went to Chiang Mai and Bangkok, Thailand from 25th
March to 31st March 2017 and learned Thai tradition or
culture and realized a difference with Japan.
Before we went to Thailand, we wanted to:• get the stimulation that is good for us.
• make useful experience to be able to make use of in the future.
• learn a lot of things. We could learn only in Thailand.
• bring up a large field of vision, pay more attention to the world.
We are able to realize these things while during our trip. First, wewould like to introduce about Thailand. Thailand is located south
East Asia. Bangkok that is the greatest city a capital. In addition,approximately 90% is a Buddhist among people living in Thailand.
It is the country where faith to Buddhism is strong in. An officialname of Bangkok is very long.
Can you try to remember it? It is very long!
Bangkok area is smaller
than Tokyo. The urban
area population surpasses
15 million people as of2016.

Then we would like to introduce Thai tribes.
For example, these pictures are HmongTribes’.

2This pleated skirt is so beautiful. It takes so long to make it. This design is unique inThailand.

And then these pictures are Aka tribes’.
These features are this silver headdress
and the design is unique too.

Thai Food, Fruits, Temples and Sports
Our impression about Thailand, Food in Thailand is very spicy and sour,
Do you know Tom-Yum-Kung? It is famous.
But not all food in Thailand is spicy, like this friedfish.

We don’t have these five kindsof fruits in Japan.

We thought Thai and Japanese temples
are the same but they are different.

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Thai Season, Money and Languages
It was very hot and humid when we visitedthailand!

Paper money is printed
with King Bhumibol,
coins are printed withfamous places.
About how much is
100YEN in Thai BAHT?
100YEN≒30BAHT

Thail Language
Most of Thai people speak Thai. But there are many languages spoken in Thailand.

From these things, we thought that Thailand is a very great country.
Everyone, let’s visit Thailand!

4◇We gave randcell, notebooks and pens to school forlife students and Hmong village kids.
◇Japanese randcell is very strong and useful.
We only use from grades 1-6, it can still be used.
We felt that doing this thing is very important.
◇They do not have school bags. They don’t have any
money to buy them.

School for LifeWe went to School for Life on the third day. We had a wonderful time there.
First, we will describe what kind of school, Schoolfor Life students have variety of reasons, forexample, some students’ house is far from school,
cannot pay any money and so students leave
their homes and live at the school.
Second, we will tell you about what we did.
We did a lot of things.
First, we watch the Thai traditional dance,
we are very surprised, because we do notknow Thai dance.

Second we looked at traditional clothes,
they were cute and cool. They made theseby one’s self. We thought is very difficultand it takes much time to make it.

5Third, we looked at School for Life’s house; it was fashionable but had no air conditioner
and fan, so it was not comfortable.
Forth, we ate lunch, it was so delicious. Wewere most surprised that they wash dishes
by themselves. And they helped mewithout hesitation.

Fifth, we presented about Japan, like
Sumo and Kendo. Thai children weresurprised about the differences between
Japan and Thailand. But, Thai children
were very interested and we were very
happy. We had a lot of activities.

We spoke a little bit of English with School
for Life children because even with no language, we could communicate with emotion ormatter. Most important thing is to communicate from heart to heart.
We thought about happiness, we were thinking happiness is playing games and watchingTV, but in School for Life, Happiness are studying with friends and playing outside withfriends. We prefer happiness of School for Life, to mine. We think this is a good programthat the children who cannot go to school can go, however we think they feel happiness intheir lives and they feel happiness as an organization.

Hmong Village
On day 4, we went to Hmong Village, Hmong
Village have little electricity but there are many
clever ideas, we met Hmong people and learned
how they live. We learned that Hmong people havewisdom very much, they make their life tools by
their hands.
6For example they make traditional skirt,
wooden iron, small wooden car and so on,
by their hands.

They are made only from natural materials like wood,
grass and also rubber.
We were surprised very much. Hmong village is far
from school for children so children stay in the school
every day.
They make money by sellingtraditional
hand-madecostumes and flower.
We think Hmong Village is full of clever ideas. We hope that
their smiles will continue forever.

KUMON DayOn Day 5, we went to Chiang Mai University andmet children studying Kumon. We teach origami toThai children, we teach crane, frog and airplane.
There was a Thai child who folds origami very well.
We were surprised that they folded JapaneseTraditional Origami very well even we didn’t teach how to make it.
We compared Japanese and Thai KUMON
materials, Thai children always use CD when
they listen English at Kumon. We showed theE-Pencil, they were interested in it. We
remembered when we used E-Pencil forthe first time.
And we got Thai bag from Thai children; we’d like to use these bags importantly. InKumon Day, we felt connected by KUMON materials even if the countries were different.
7Interview
We interviewed some children in Thailand. This is the result of the interview and wewould like to share our impressions.

Daigo’s Impression (M, 14):
I felt School for Life Children
were livelier than JapaneseChildren. Also they aggressively
try to communicate with us.
Most Japanese children is shy
with strangers so I was surprise.
According to their answers theytreasure their friends very much.
These were all memorable for me.
We should follow them.

Madoka’s Impression (F, 11):After asking questions toHmong Village kids, I
thought they feel very
happy when they spend
time with their family andwhen they are playing. I am
happy that they feel thesame as we do.
Kaho’s Impression (F, 9): I asked some questions to Hmong Village kids, and some ofthem answered they feel happy when they are together with their family. And I thought
Hmong Village kids are kind and thinking about each other.

8Haruyo’s Impression (F,12): I interviewed Thaikids and I was surprised when I asked them,when did you feel happy, because Thai Children
answered that they feel happy when they study
KUMON, after that I felt I want to be like them.
Kaho’s Impression (F,10): The most surprising
thing is Thai Kids have great dreams, forexample, two out of three kids want to be a doctor
and one wants to be a scientist.
Nao’s Impression (F,14): I think Thai kids are happier than Japanese kids, because Thaikids are happy when they spend their time with family or friends. If I ask same questions
to Japanese kids they will answer, playing games, using smartphones and so on. I think
we should spend more time with our family or friends, after I went to Thailand.

UNESCO and Chulalongkorn University

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
We visited UNESCO office in Bangkok on Day6.
There are 2000 people from 170 countries
are working in UNESCO and 10 Japanesepeople in Bangkok office.
UNESCO contributes to building of peace,education,povertyanddevelopment
through education, science and culture.
UNESCO focuses on Africa, on genderequality.

9Is there a mascot character of UNESCO? → No there isn’t.
So, Kei (M, 12) made for UNESCO! Please look at this beautiful drawing of the mascot.

Next, we went to Chulalongkorn University and met two Japanese University students
studying abroad and one Japanese Professor who teaches a Chulalongkorn University.
After listening totheir stories, wethought English
is very nice andimportant.

Also, we think we can make friends in the world.

That since wars begin in the minds of men,
it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed.
(from UNESCO Constitution)

10SummeryAfter we went to Thailand, we learned that Thai children study harder than us. It is moredifficult to get education than us. And they have dreams, they study hard to make dreams
come true, so we should follow them.
Then, we knew Thai customs, food, and language.
At last, we should think more about appreciation for being able to study hard in school.

Thank you very much for your kind attention.

-The End-11

Khob Khun Ka/Krup12