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This was the first time for HiGA to participate in a track and field competition. The members of the team had many school assignments, but they managed their time, planned their own practice sessions, and challenged themselves to compete in the event. They were able to show the results of their practice to the best of their ability, including one who was selected to participate in the prefectural competition.

The language and literature students were engaged in an activity to compare/contrast two books they have read while answering past Paper 2 questions.

Hello. We would like to introduce our CAS experience. CAS stands for Creativity/Activity/Service, where students engage in experiential learning such as arts and other activities that involve creative thinking, physical activities, and/or volunteer work. The CAS experience we recently worked on was the creation of a piece of artwork that was made out of rubbish we collected during our beach cleaning activities. Recently, we exhibited our artwork at school to educate people about the environmental issues surrounding marine pollution. In the future, we would like to further explore the issues surrounding ocean pollution to develop new ways to educate people about this issue.

Today was the last day to stay in the U.S. In the morning. We visited Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. The area were divided by the sections such as dinosaur or animals of the ocean, and they introduced history of animals by using stuffing etc. They were very interesting because we saw some models of animals that have already died out and we can’t see them anymore. After that, we ate the last meal in the U.S. at the Silver Diner, which was the first restaurant we went when we arrived in the U.S.. During this trip, we went to many restaurants from different countries, and experienced different cultures. …

We did a lot today, so the post will be in two parts! In the morning, we had a workshop at the hotel’s meeting room. We shared what we learned through KAKEHASHI Project and thought about our action plan after returning to Japan. We will do a presentation on our action plan tomorrow at the Japanese embassy and Hayfield Secondary School. After returning to Japan, we will continue to post on SNS and work hard to achieve the action plan. In the afternoon, we had lunch with Globalize DC students and then went to church. We viewed paintings sent by elementary school students in Hiroshima after the war. The paintings …