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Last Thursday students, teachers, parents and other community members gathered at RUHS to hear tales from Japan. It always amazes me how different other cultures are from our own, and the 12 RUHS students who traveled to Japan last summer definitely had some interesting experiences to share with everyone. The night began with Dakota Engberg describing their trip to an elementary school where they participated in cooking and calligraphy class. After their visit to the school they participated in a noodle eating competition and Enberg set a new record by eating 111 bowls of noodles. Samantha Merrill went on to talk about her experience with high-tech Japanese toilets, complete with several different buttons on the sides. "I pushed one of the bottons and water started shooting up my back. I didn’t know how to stop it, so I stood up and it got all over my clothes. Then I got out of the way and it started hitting the door until it finally stopped." I learned later that these unique toilets were also heated and played music. All of the students enjoyed shopping at the malls in Japan, which were as large as five stories; there was even a left handed arm wrestling match in the middle of one of the malls. While visiting one of many Buddhist temples, students learned how to meditate, play a stringed instrument called the Koto, and even arrange flowers, a very popular Japanese pasttime. \The best part of the entire trip for all of the students was staying with a host family in Shizukuishui for a week "The friendships we made in Japan will last forever," said Annie Hutchinson. The other students who went on the trip where Amanda Bowen, Danielle Gagnon, Tiffany Gast, Katie Giles, Ashley LaFreniere, Molly Poirier Sarah Roger, Hayley Smith and William Start. |
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