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　７月４日（火）に青島日本人学校の近辺にある『青島第六十五中学』との交流会を行いました。長年交流を続けてきた学校同士ではありましたが、最近は感染症予防のため実施することができませんでした。昨年は来校してもらう予定で、できないまま終わっていた交流会でしたが、青島第六十五中学のありがたい申し出もあり、約３年ぶりとなる交流を行うことができました。英語を使っての交流は難しく、思うように発音できなかったり、言いたいことがあっても伝えることができなかったりもしたのではないでしょうか。全て英語で行われましたので、生徒が使った英語を交えて、様子をお伝えしようと思います。

We had looked forward to having today's exchange event. We invited the 65th Junior High School students to our school. We were glad to be able to exchange with them today.

　　　

At first, we introduced our school and our school life, such as school events, lessons, club activities and so on. We also introduced Japanese popular cultures like musicians, sports, comic books, food and so on. After that, we played Japanese drums for welcoming.

 After our performance, the 65th students gave us their presentation. They present us the sports which they usually play in their daily life. Their English is very great! Their pronunciation of English is wonderful. They can speak English fluently. It may be difficult for us to understand it, but we can see the sentences of their speech. We have a great experience to hear the excellent presentation.

Next, we had some sports events. First we played ‘Centipede (Worm) relay’. We used ropes with 5 people. We put our both feet in each hole. And we 5 students ran together to the big cone and returned to the place where we started. The winner was team AB. They have no time to practice, but they have a great cooperation. They ran and turned very fast. Their feet were gotten together perfectly. Team CD members also enjoyed the game and talked with each other.

　　　　

Second we played ‘Long Jumping Ropes’. We jumped together with all members in each team. All entered the rope and jumped together as many times as we can in 2 minutes. We played this game twice. In the third round, we have to stop jumping when someone stops the rope. The total score of team AC was 59 times. So the winner was team AC!!! They jumped for a long time. The more they practiced it, the better they got to jump. It was wonderful! They had a very great work. It may be the first time to play it. Is it also difficult for Japanese students to play this sport?

　　　　

In the last game, we used Paper Plane. Behind the line, we threw our own plane made of paper. Only the farthest one was left on the floor. We threw our own plane in order of each team. At last, the most times of the farthest one was the team C. So the winner was the team C. It was a simple plane which he made and could fly to the far place for a long time. We found that it was more important to think how to throw it, not how to make. We needed to throw it softly and in the shoulder height and in parallel with the floor without strong power. Some of them returned back to the place where they threw.

　　　　

We had a good exchange event by sports and communication today. We are shy and have little time to talk about ourselves with each other. However we could learn a little each other in English. We hope to exchange and know more each other. We had a great time today!