The world is our friend! Italian fair 2011

"ICHIMIN” - one of the characters made out of sweets.

Exchange between Italy and Ichinomiya Elementary schoolchilden.

Coordinator of International Relations: Guido. Let's make art dogs!

Distribution of cooked food at the charity booth for the northeast recovery.

~A wish for the northeastern reconstruction~

In the friendship programme between Ichinomiya-city and Treviso-city in Italy the schoolchildren have been exchanging picture letters and college students from Italy have held fashion shows using the textiles made in Bishu. And so the "bonds" and "ties" between the two cities have been deepened. Wishing the relation of both cities would deepen further, with the key theme of "Italy", a fair was held where participants enjoyed some music, sweets and experienced different types of events together. And in addition, this charity event was held with the theme of hope towards the successful reconstruction of the northeastern area of Japan.

Ichinomiya International Association News No. 60 March 2012

~ Italian fair Special Edition ~

来吧世界的朋友! 参加意大利展览! 复兴东北!

一宫与意大利“投雷比(Treviso)”两市的小学生们通过绘彩年信卡相互交流,大学生们通过时尚时装展会来加深

两市之间的“絆”“縁”,加深了两市间的友谊。为两市间的友谊继续加深,就此一宫市举办了大型交流活动。在活

动中还举办了祝愿早日复兴东北义演活动,市民们纷纷积极参加。

用水果糕点做的车和“いちみん”

展示漫画狗狗

和意大利小学生的交流

复兴东北发送热汤汁 国际交流员贵抖(Guido)桑

iia ichinomiya international association

We walked a lot! We ate a lot! With families and foreign guests

One warm fall day, we walked 5.2 km around the Ichinomiya City Office, Kisogawa branch with foreign guests. We divided into 7 groups and walked the course.

In general, about 50 members including elementary school students and mothers with babies joined. This time Guido and Jackleen, Ichinomiya Coordinators of International Relations and their friends joined

the program. Also, students studying abroad at Nagoya University, and an exchange student of Kisogawa high school

joined. In total, foreign guests from 7 different countries got together for this project which was started 4 years ago for local people to enjoy walking and eating foreign dishes.

We walked past a monument of the birth of a Japanese painter and the site of Kuroda castle where Yamauchi Kazutoyo lived and volunteer members asked guests some quiz questions at each place of interest.

The children seemed to be looking forward to eat barbeque and foreign dishes after walking. They kept on powerfully walking ahead. It was a slightly humid day, but everyone reached the end and happily drank the bottle of tea which was prepared for each of them.

After that, barbequed Brazilian beef and big sausages were cooked for the participants. One male Uzbek exchange student of Nagoya University made a dish called “Plov” which is seasoned rice with mutton. According to him, it is very popular in Uzbekistan and they always eat it when they celebrate something.

A host family who he stayed with a few years ago came to this event and they looked happy to meet up with him again and eat his Plov. Everyone ate a lot and their physical fatigue seemed to drain away.

I can understand why this program is always popular. If we join once, you are definitely inspired to join again!

Fureai Walking November 3rd

We made handmade cakes and Soba together! In the cooking room of the Youth Center

(Seinen no Ie) on December 3, 2011

“Dish out the sweets on to plates!” were cue words for all participants to start. Most of the children were

usually quiet, but they looked excited that day. The Christmas party started around ten o’clock. The cooking room was filled with fifteen children from three countries and volunteers.

First, the party began with a popular bingo game. Then, Soba Making started on another table. The table was crowded with the participants who first saw Soba making. Soba was skillfully made using buckwheat flour.

The volunteers baked sponge cakes and cut them into pieces for everyone. The children decorated them. It was interesting to see that such decoration reflected each child’s personality. It seemed as if a variety of colors, such as that of strawberries and melons, let them forget their daily troubles. With a big smile and posing in front of these decorated cakes, some of the children got their pictures taken.

Everything was ready. Everyone enjoyed eating cakes and other sweets set on the tables. Each child said, “Yummy! “. “It’s delicious!” or “Sabroso (delicious in Spanish)”, said the adult volunteers, when they were eating the boiled soba.

All of them enjoyed this heartwarming party with delicious food.

The three Nihongo Hiroba classes each held exchange parties for guest volunteers in December of 2011.

Nihongo Hiroba (Ichinomiya)

本部青年之家

Potluck party

Date : December 11 Place: Ichinomiya Youth Center

(Seinen no Ie)

Nihongo Hiroba Bisai

尾西三条教室

Fun party

Date : December 18 Place: Sanjo Tudoi no Sato

大家动手一同来做蛋糕、荞麦面条吧！

2011.12.3,在青年之家料理室,举办了圣诞会,招待了３个国家 15 位小朋友。

志愿者们首先为孩子们安排了,大家都非常喜欢的排五点游戏,然后展开了做荞麦面条的阵势,孩子们纷纷指手划脚

围了个满员,目不转睛地盯着,面粉是如何在施有魔法般的双手中变成了面条,同时做蛋糕的小组也烧好了大蛋糕。

“快来分蛋糕阿！”大家召唤着孩子们,孩子们更是兴高采烈,拿着切好的水果块儿装饰着蛋糕,个个聚精会神忘记

了平日的苦,满意地欣赏自己的“作品” ,并举起双手做着各种姿势,摄下喜悦。

所有的工作整理完毕,合掌:“いただきます！”“哇！真好吃！”“It’s delicious！”“Sabroso！”

欢声四起,志愿者们在料理室和孩子们共度了一个甜美、愉快温馨的圣诞节。

Nihongo Hiroba Jr.

日语广场少年组 & Cooking Group

Christmas Party

12 月一宫市三个日语广场教室分别举办了志愿者和学员的交流会

Sending our love from Ichinomiya to Treviso! October 29-30, 2011 送给投雷比(Treviso)市一宫市民的怀念!

Little Italy has arrived in Ichinomiya!

意 大 利 来 到 了 一 宫 市

Downtown Ichinomiya bustled with people who came to the first time event “We are friends all around the world! Italian Fair 2011: in hopes of supporting Tohoku’s reconstruction.” One of Ichinomiya’s current Coordinators of International Relations, Guido Scarabello, happens to be from Treviso in Italy. With his fluent Japanese and various Italian gestures, he introduced Italian traditions and culture. The audience also gave applause to the Italian musicians and the student wind band that performed on the special stage. In Hommachi shopping arcade, there were many interesting booths such as a fair-trade workshop, a knitting café, a cotton candy demonstration booth, sweets stalls and more.

The Republic of Italy is a partner country in the friendship program which began as a result of the 2005 World Expo Aichi. This friendship programme has been introduced many times in this newsletter previously; Imaise Nishi elementary school children exchange picture letters with elementary school kids in Treviso, and up-and-coming fashion design students from Treviso are selected through a contest to take part in an educational trip to Ichinomiya. We expect both cities to keep these programmes to deepen exchange, and attain the goal of a sister city relationship.

于 2011.10.29～30 日在一宫市中心街,第一次举办了“来吧世界朋友！参加意大利展览！早日复兴东北”大型

交流活动。

派遣到一宫市国际交流员,恰好是意大利投雷比市出身的小伙子贵抖桑,用流畅的日语向市民介绍意大利的文

化、民俗、生活,会场在热烈的气氛中沸腾起来。

在义演的舞台上,用意大利的乐器演奏着乐曲,会场回荡着意大利的旋律,市民及中学生的观众们都和着乐曲的

节奏拍着手气氛友好热烈。市中心大街,街道旁还布有展示各种有趣交流作品、还设有小型体验交流广角、编织、

折纸、按纪念印章交换小礼物、棉花糖、装饰水果糕点配送咖啡等,深受到大家的欢迎。

意大利共和国于〈2005 年〉举办“爱・地球博览会”,促进国际交流事业。在本纸也多次介绍过,至今市内今

伊势西小学和意大利小学生们彩绘年信卡的交流,利用日本尾州生产的面料设计为意大利时尚时装优秀新人赏,

大学生们保持着交流会,我们期待并祝愿姐妹两市今后友谊加深,携手并肩共同发展。

Sweets for stamp rally

participants.

Mayor Tani opens the Italian Fair.

一宫市长在开会仪式上发表讲话

Cotton candy demo by students.

Volunteers making sweets.

ICC reporter introducing Imaise Nishi elementary school’s letter exchange (Part of the friendship programme).

Guido (left) introducing Italy.

iia booth

JICA fair-trade booth.

Let’s do what we can,

for the future of the children! “Good Morning!” cry the children, filling the room

with their cheerful voices. This is a common scene at the Nihongo Hiroba Junior class, which is held every Saturday morning at the Youth Center (Seinen no Ie). This class is held for children whose mother tongue is not Japanese. The children are from different countries and they learn Japanese with the help of voluntary teachers. Every time, between 5 to 10 children enjoy learning in accordance with their own abilities.

“Excuse me, I can’t understand this”, to such a

question from a child, the teacher always explains with a smile.

In the very beginning, these children were very nervous and could not communicate with their teachers at all. But nowadays, they can do a Kanji dictation and even write a composition. One of the volunteer staff said: “I had difficulties sometimes with the children until I became more familiar with them. But I am happy when I can assist them in some way.” More recently, most of the children are getting used to the volunteer teachers and talk in a friendly way with them about their family, their future hopes and so on.

“Nihongo Hiroba Junior” was established three years

ago in 2009. And since last year its activities have begun expanding. Japanese language classes have opened in some elementary schools at which many children of foreign nationalities attend.

Presently, a little under 70-children who need support learning Japanese have registered at elementary and junior high-schools in Ichinomiya city. The Ichinomiya City Board of Education sends to each school a total of 9 Japanese Language Advisors. These advisors can speak both the mother tongue of the children and Japanese, and provide support for their learning of Japanese and offer advice to the children using their mother tongue. The number of children who need this support has been increasing yearly. And there are also children who cannot attend the Nihongo Hiroba Junior class for various reasons.

Three years have passed since the ‘Nihongo Hiroba Junior’ class was opened.

There are various reasons for children, who do not understand the Japanese language, to live in Japan. The problems which children experience here are not as simple as not understanding the language. But in saying that, wherever children live, education is the most essential and important part of life for them. The staff of the Nihongo Hiroba are eager to assist the children to help enable them to live with confidence wherever they are.

Ichinomiya International Association (iia) continues to promote the Nihongo Hiroba Junior project to further build the society in which both Japanese and foreign residents can help each other learn to live together with respect towards one another’s culture and customs.

Taking this in to consideration, Ichinomiya International Association (iia) this year held a series of seminars titled: “Teaching Children Japanese as a Second Language’’. The purpose of these seminars held over a two month period, was to give better support to the children. During this series of seminars, lessons detailing how to teach Japanese were given and possibilities of new activities and approaches to teaching were discussed.

For the latter half of these seminars, the following persons were requested to attend by iia; a person from the City Board of Education, volunteer staff, Japanese Language Advisors, and teachers on active service. Various problems facing the children were discussed and several opinions were exchanged amongst the participants. One of the attendees stated this; “For the first time we have recognized that there are children who are under very hard situations. We wish to give them assistance as much as possible”

NEW!!

‘Welcome Salon’

for Multicultural Exchange and Consultation

The Welcome Salon has moved to a new location!

Improve your international understanding and receive information about international exchange activities held in Ichinomiya City. This multicultural ‘Welcome Salon’ is a place where foreign residents, regardless of nationality can drop in at

their convenience to enjoy exchanging opinions with others, or consult with staff members about any problems they may be having. Stay as long as you like within the visiting hours, or just drop in for a quick visit.

WHEN: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Sunday* of every month. 13:30-16:00pm (Except: National holidays, the year-end and-beginning)

＊1st & 2nd: Coordinator of International Relations present. (English)

3rd: Japanese and International members of staff present. (English & Chinese)

WHERE: Com–Café (三八屋)；Ichinomiya city, Honmachi 4-chome1-9

＊No parking available.

But is conveniently located within 10-minutes walk from Ichinomiya station(see map) The Welcome Salon is recommended for people who:

*Wish to become friends or talk with Japanese and/or people from abroad. *Need/want information about living in Japan; in particular Ichinomiya. *Want to communicate with others involved in volunteer activities. *Would like information about volunteer activities & international exchange events. *Want to understand culture of foreigners who live in Ichinomiya City.

国际交流沙龙,邀请您! 国际交流沙龙,是一宫市国际交流协会为市民们提供的一个可以互相交流,

增强了解的场所。免费开放,任何人都可以自由参加,畅所欲言。

有时间,请到沙龙来做客!欢迎您!

时 间 每个月第一·二·三星期天

下午１∶３０到 ４∶００

地 点 com-cafe三 八 屋

さんぱちや

（没有停车场）

（ 一 宮 市

いちのみやし

本 町

ほんまち

４ 丁 目

ちょうめ

１－９ 请参照地图）

每月第三个星期天,有外籍咨询员

在场(英语和汉语)。即使不会日语,

也没有任何问题。敬请参加。

本

町

商

店

街

真清田神社

駅

com-café 三八屋

・想和日本人·外国人交朋友

・想获取在日本的生活信息

・想与其他的志愿者进行勾通

・想获悉志愿者及有关活动的消息

・想和外国人交流

・想多了解一些外国的文化和习俗

새로운 국제교류의 장이 오픈하였습니다!

국적의 관계없이 자유롭게 모이고 교류하면서 서로를 깊게 이해 할 수 있는 장소입니다.

첫째.둘째 일요일은 국제교류원,셋째일요일은 외국인 당담자가 있습니다.

지정시간내에는 출입이 자유이므로 편안하게 이용 할 수 있습니다.

일시：매월 제 1.2.3 일요일,13:30~16:00(축일,연말연시제외)

장소：com-café 三八屋（本町 4 丁目 1－9）

※一宮駅(이치노미야역)에서 10 분,

本町・アーケード南(혼마치・아-게-도미나미)신호를건너서 20 미터 우측.

Hi! Neighbor

我 们 的 邻 居

Ms. Afurong Jheroliza De Guzman, from Luzon in the Philippines, heard from a Japanese grandmother from Kumamoto prefecture as follows. "Japan is a very beautiful country and the Japanese are the most diligent people in the world".

When I came to Fukui Prefecture six years ago, I was surprised that the cold climate in Japan was completely different from the hot climate of the Philippine’s. Also, I saw snow for the first time since arriving here.

Then I moved to Ichinomiya-city and am working now at a factory in Hashima-city. In the office I’ve made many friends, and making conversation with my superiors has been good practice for my Japanese. The most pleasant thing in my life is "work". Since there is a lot of opportunity for work, I can buy various things and am still able to send some money home to my relatives. I am very much satisfied with my present life, and my impression that the Japanese people are diligent has still not changed.

I am the mother of two daughters in elementary school. In regards to the communications with the school there is no trouble for me thanks to the Philippino staff and the volunteers who are assigned to their school. But I do think it would be good if I could assist my daughters with their homework a little more.

I still have a lot of things I want to do and places I would like to go. But I would like to live in Japan for a long time and gradually be able to realize my dreams.

Because, I love JAPAN!

AFURONG JHEROLIZA DE GUZMAN 出身于菲律宾吕宋岛。

她曾经听在日本熊本县出生的奶奶说：“日本是个很美丽

的地方。日本人是世界上最勤奋的民族。”

六年前，她第一次来到福井县时，因为菲律宾的气候很

热，跟福井的气候截然不同，寒冷的气候让她十分惊讶。

她第一次看到下雪。

然后，她搬到一宫市，如今，在羽岛市的工厂工作。她

在单位交了很多朋友，对她来说，跟上司会话是一个学习

日语的好机会。她说，她在日本最开心的事就是“工作”。

因为有很多工作，买得到各种各样的东西，能够给家里寄

生活费，所以她对现在的生活感到很满足。而且她对日本

人工作很勤奋的印象并没有改变。

下班回到家，她是一双女儿妈妈。小姐妹俩都是小学生。

学校里有日语指导员或者志愿者，所以她跟学校方面的沟

通并没有大碍，但是她希望要是自己能辅导孩子们做作业

就好了。

现在，她有很多想做的事情和想去的地方。她希望以后

继续住在日本，靠自己的努力，一一地实现这些愿望。

因为她 “爱上日本了。”

翻訳・編集：一宮市国際交流協会親善ボランティア通訳・翻訳グループ

Translated/Edited by：iia Translation-Interpretation Volunteer Group

翻译编者：一宫市国际交流协会友好志愿者翻译小组

発行：一宮市国際交流協会

Published by：Ichinomiya International Association

发行：一宫市国际交流协会

TEL：0586-84-0014 FAX：0586-86-1809

mail：iia-138@owari.ne.jp

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