Tamagawa University and Dreamgirls

Today we visitede Tamagawa University which is a school that goes from Kindergarten all the way through college. Being a private school the atmosphere was a little different than that of Yaei highschool which we visited on the second day. When we first got there we had to walk up a huge hill. Tamagawa was a huge campus and the walk to the main building was super long and tiring, but the walk was worth it because the inside of the highschool building was amazing. It was really nice and surrounded a super huge field with a track surrounding it where kids were practicing softball or baseball. The first class we visited was a dance class for 12th graders where Trish did a demonstration and Ms. O, Trish, Maya, and Dionne taught us a dance to Rude Boy by Rihanna. It was so much fun and some of the girls in the class were better than us bullis studendts in the back who were also trying to learn the dance. The second class we visited was a global studies class where we talked with students about everyday life at school and found out that they barely get homework while some of us at bullis, like myself, stay up until all hours of the night trying to finish homework. They are so lucky. After the global studies class we went to lunch and ate some delicious chicken sandwiches with a group of students. When lunch was over we went to visit some elementary school children in their english classes. First we went to a classroom of children singing a welcome song to us and then we did this game to a song where we paired up with a child. After the music class we went to fourth grade and second grade classes. In the fourth grade class, they were so excited to see us and came up to us talking about their dream houses and their favorite things in english. For some reason the popular color seemed to be light blue, the popular sport was golf and the popular foods were American. After the fourth grade class we went to the second grade class which was extremely excited to see us. They were bouncing off the walls in there while asking us simple questions like "what is your name" and "how old are you". One little boy who was called on to answer a question started talking like a cat and then yelled "i like cats" in japanese which was random and hilarious. After the fun second graders we were supposed to go to the 12th grade english class but there was some sort of miscommunication so it didn't happen and I was a little disappointed. But that disappointment was replaced with excitement as we got to see university students do japanese traditional dance. It was very cool and interesting to see and I wish they would have taught us something. After the dance class we left Tamagawa and went back to the hotel where we got ready for dinner and ate at Torigen, the same place we were at the night before. When dinner was over we rushed back to the hotel because apparently DREAMGIRLS!!! with jennifer hudson and beyonce was onTV in the room in ENGLISH!! with japanese subtitles so we all stayed up and watched it. Then we went to sleep.

-Diona Smith