Myanmar Study tour reportMar. 27, 28 2018
Mitsuyo Tamai,

6:30 a.m.
Moved from the hotel in Yangon to the airport.
9:00 a.m.
Arrived at Heho airport in Shan State.
Moved to Satthay village by a chartered bus with Ms.Phyu who is a guide and interpreter. For a while after the airport the road is paved and we could see
brick houses on both sides and people on motorbikes here and there but
only wasteland after two hours. Because of the wild road, it took us three hours to arrive at the village, which was one hour behind the schedule.
0:00 p.m.
The people of the village welcomed us very much by taking pictures of us
with their mobile phones and waving their hands.
Inside the school, they had kindly prepared cut fruits,scones and salad. But our guide advised us not to eat
ﬂesh food because they are dangerous for Japanese.
We ate only scones and they were good for Japanese taste.
A female teacher who had arrived at her post in the school and a male teacher
teaching English at a private school in the next village sat at the same tablewith us. I guess they did so in order to explain things to us because both ofthem could speak English. Many of the village people have mobile phones
but there is not internet system or electricity. They explained that only limited
places are charged with electricity generated by dynamos. Mobile phones aremainly charged by solar dynamos and used for taking pictures and listening music.
The hygiene condition of the school toilet rooms is considerably bad.
The shape of the lavatory is like a Japanese traditional one. After they use thelavatory, they ﬂow down water using a ladle to clean inside of the lavatory.
The water is kept aside in a ditch, but muddy.

Ms. Phyu explained that when an educational institution was built, the Social
Welfare Agency and Educational Department designated by the government
had to attend its opening ceremony.
And Paoh's Nation has been ﬁghting against Myanmar government until
about 20 years ago, but now they have abandoned their weapons andendeavor after the development of multiple race country, Myanmar. It was
especially interesting story for me. Even in such a present-day that we canget any information about troubles in the world through TV, books or internet,
we seldom have an opportunity to listen directly to the opinions of the people
concerned. I became aware that this time.
We took a big abacus for teachers and 25 abacuses with 23 reeds, butthey were not enough to distribute to everyone. The teachers were very
anxious to learn, and they have mastered how to do addition and subtractionof numbers up to 10 in a short time, even though it was the ﬁrst time forthem to see abacuses and did not know what they were.
We presented all abacuses and text books. They made a promise with Tamai
in smile that they would learn the text book until Tamai would visit themnext time.
I want to continuously think about not only what kind of institution topresent, but also how to support their education for their independence.
Returning from Heho airport to Yangon airport. We had a surprisingexperience that the airplane had free seats. We walked from a smallbuilding to the airplane in Heho airport to make a line for a seat.
Attended the opening ceremony of a nursery in Satthay village Shan StateMar. 27, 28 2018Mitsuyo Tamai,

2:30 p.m.
We walked to the nursery through the people standing at our both sides andplaying music to welcome us. We visited the nursery to see inside. A
picture of the donator, Mrs. Mitsuyo Tamai was placed to show. There weresome desks and chairs not in the same set but they wanted to collect more.
They explained that they could establish the cleanest toilet rooms in theirvillage.

2:50 p.m.
Opening ceremony started.
Ceremony place had been already prepared where a tent was pitched next
the nursery building, and chairs were arranged. Village people werealready seated.
Kondo President of JAMAHA and Mrs. Mitsuyo Tamai made speeches.
Also
Social Welfare Agency , Educational Department , representative of Paoh'sNation and the village chief made speeches.