I have been quite busy these two days. The new Teikyo students finally arrived Durham last week so we started our well-planed ‘welcome campaign’.
Yesterday morning Andy and I went Teikyo to show give an informal presentation about AJS. Because it’s still in holiday and other execs were unable to attend, I made a video with welcome messages from other them. It took quite a lot of efforts to make it, but it was all worth when saw the students’ ‘wow’ faces after showing it. And then Megan, Andy, I and a few other AJS members joined their ‘walk around Durham’ section in the afternoon. They had a competition between groups of students. Basically they need to ask people on the street some questions like ‘How many Chinese restaurants in Durham’ and ‘What time does Waitrose close on Sunday’, and the team get the most right answer within a certain time could win a prize. It’s a good game for learning English and also got to know the city.
Today we went to Newcastle for a day trip. We had a good time walked around the city and get to know more about the new Teikyo students. They are very nice and friendly and very much wanted to improve their English. Although they know we can handle some conversational Japanese, some of them were trying hard to speak English to us. I would like to see them making this kind of efforts rather than group together and only speaking Japanese. We also had a very nice meal in that restaurant I wrote before. They said this is the first non-English meal they had since arrived England two weeks ago and it was extremely delicious, I totally understood how they felt even though I have been living here for almost three years.
So, that’s what I have been up to for the last two days. I am very happy to meet these new Teikyo students. We are going to have a good company this year! Megan also blogged her experiences of these two days, take a look:
Welcome Teikyo Students! & Trip to Newcastle