What we Learned While we Were Teaching - submitted by Yoshika Kitahara

 The first day we went to YALLA for volunteering, many children thought we are  Chinese. They can’t distinguish between Chinese, Korean or Japanese. Of course, because they haven’t seen Asians before.  If they feel someone looks like Asian , they just think about Chinese. Because China is the biggest country in Asia . Also population is bigger than Japan and Korea. However China, Japan and Korea is totally different country, so we decided to make some material for them and introduce our country.

We thought about what should we write in material. And we wrote something that we think children might be interested in. For example, country flag, famous companies, culture, food and so on.

Last day we brought that material to YALLA, and did presentation. Children were very interested in our presentation. They have many questions about our country and listen carefully. I think the most excited part for children is how to say hello in Japanese and Korean. They followed us and practiced again and again. We are so glad they enjoyed our presentation. One of the adviser want ask to other  volunteer to do same thing. Because it was very educational and helpful to get some information about country. Also we are glad we gave a good tips to them.