My Friday’s experience

In August 28, I and Koutarou went to
Otago polytechnic building

Because David suggested us go there.
 Why did we have to go There? I have to do
the survey of “junk food is unhealthy
and should be made illegal.”

We got only disagree with this opinion.
We tried to talk With 12 people, but we wasn’t able to get agreement.

We talked about this matter.
I thought next person is last  One to cooperate with our survey.
The last person is a woman Eating chips.
I asked her whether you agree or disagree this opinion.

She said “yes, I agree!” with eating a chips.
We finally found the Proponent. 

I had a chances to talk to many people.

This is a good experience. 

My experience from interviewing

Last week on friday, I and my friend called Ryoko did interview which is "the marriage can't last forever". Therefore, it was quite exciting thing for us because we had never done any interviews before. We had to ask people around the University of Otago that "Do you agree or disagree about that statement" so we've got 2 agree people and 6 disagree people. Once we've done, we've got lots of experiences for example how to talk to stranger or how to listen to native speakers that talk very fast.

An artist who has a firm belief

"Do you think that art is expensive waste of money?" Although we say art, it includes a lot of fields, such as music, paintings, buildings, even antiques. Every people whom we asked a question answered "Disagree.". But actually, it was easy to anticipate that people answer "Disagree" with ordinary reasons before we interview, but I was surprised that they had various ideas for arts. Above all, I was very impressed by the man who was entering a building. He told us "Art is the way to express ourself and even human beings. If you meet a person who agrees with your question, Bring here!". Suddenly I caught a sight of the signboard "Music Building", and I realized why he told us about art with fever. There is something about his belief that makes him different from other people.

I interviewed Kiwi people

 

 

It was a valuable experience for me to interview Kiwi people. Our topic was “Politician should be younger” and I interviewed 5 people with Rose. It was also quite hard for me because I’m shy, so Rose supported me. Thank you Rose. We just sat on a border in front of the Plaza café, and interviewed people who was going to go gym. At first we were going to go café to ask the topic, but people enjoyed their conversation or their ranch. We hesitated to talk to them because they looked busy. I found that was difficult to talk to a new people even if they talked in a friendly way. In Japan, there is a pert time job which pass out packets of tissues. If I do this job, I couldn’t do well. People is busy and sometimes people don’t take tissues, and I would feel sad. It is hard to talk to people who look busy, but this time, they talked with us willingly although the question was hard to answer. The result of question is that; 3 people agreed to the topic because young people have new ideas and 2 people disagree because they have less experiences than adults.

Cadbury

I went to Cadbury with my friend and enjoyed watching the.chocolate waterfall.
After we made a tour of the factory, we drank hot chocolate. I don't want chocolate now because I've eaten enough chocolate!

     

How I felt

 It was interesting for me about Friday's class activity.
I don't like sitting the chair and can't listen the story of people for long time,so it was good for me.
Sometimes , I confused that how should I say when I asked a question to people . However, I could learn about various things. I couldn't speak English and listening well, but I was really enjoyed.

 Dunedin is really similar to Hokkaido, so Dunedin life is comfortable.
Sometimes, I want to eat lamb.

Class Activity

 I interviewed many people of the downtown by the first class activity. I and Ken asked eight persons about 『 Art is an expensive waste of money. 』 We thought that we wanted to hear by half of the opinions of an adult and the youth. However, we could not meet young people because the time was noon, and a school was'nt yet over.

After interviewing it, all the members in eight had an opposite opinions for this question. Furthermore, I asked them to their reason. They had the deep thought, and an art has very valuable thing for them. 

Sometime, I said ‘ Excuse me! ’ to people in there. We were ignored by them, and my heart was almost broken, but we could get their ideas.

In addition, we were able to know some feeling of people who do the news related work. It is hard work for me to do it, but to interview many persons is very good activity!!

What I obtained through an interview

We interviewed people about each topics on class.  My topic was ''Modern technology isn't good for our life.'' In my opinion, modern technology is useful for us.

After interviewing five people, I knew good points and bad points of this topic.

Good points are easy to search, can use GPS and very convenient.
Bad points are dependence on technology such us internet. People don't write character and forget kanji.

Through these opinion, I learn modern technology are very good, but also bad. And, to hear opinion of people, I understood more than before. This is very good experience for me.


Sayako

My impressions of Friday’s class

Long time no upload to this blog. haha

First of all, thanks for letting me participate in this class yesterday. I have to say thank you to you.

I felt that was so fan for me. My pair was Kazuki but when we started to ask for other people, the report had almost been finished!! So, I thought he had a great work by himself before we became pair. 

By the way, we asked students who were from different countries, Kiwi, Soudi Arabia, china and so on. However, almost of them said nearly same answers. It was interesting!! I was so surprised because I thought they would say different opinions by each countries so actually I wanted to look up more.

Thank you.