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Korie,

Wow you summarized a lot of late nights, BIG discussions, critical decisions, zany moments, true determination, a few conflicts, and many hours of hard work in one blog! Yes, this does capture the many projects of your Sophomore Year well with your sense of humor. You were fortunate to have many moments to truly celebrate the elbow grease that is needed and often underestimated to finish projects that you personally took pride in producing no matter what the outcome would be! Keep up the good work and I really do love your goals for Junior Year!

Love,

Mom :)

Journal #3: Impact

My passion is in communicating with many different people; this program brings a new definition to communication. Our whole purpose of interaction to anyone is our effort to convey a message. This is something that I understand is important, Project Icarus really reenforced this interest by challenging me to interact with people not of my culture. From this project I have gained skills in being an effective communicator (GLO #5!). The research portion requires me to showing my message through writing, where as the impact activity challenges me to push my message across by video media and interviews. Recently, when we had a Japanese exchange student stay over at our house this year, I had to apply my limited knowledge of Japanese in order to talk to him. The point of school is to train us to use our voice to express an idea. My curriculum this past school year included three classes that taught me how to relay messages: Language Arts, Japanese, and TV Production. I have learned a lot from each of these three classes, and have, in my opinion, become a better, and more fluent speaker because of it.

Project Icarus: Journal #2

Journal #2: Data and Information Gathering

The Japan-American Society of Hawaii (JASH) participates in the annual Asian-Pacific Children’s Convention, one of the many ways Hawaii’s community is given the opportunity to interact and learn a different country’s culture. Through this program I am able to concentrate on something I enjoy doing, as well as practice effective communication skills.

The Asian-Pacific Children’s Convention (APCC) is an annual event held in Fukuoka, Japan. It was formed in 1989 as a part of Fukuoka City’s 100th anniversary convention. The Japanese government created this program to foster global peace, to create content relationships among people from different regions of the world. However, the APCC is focused mainly on children and youth to create long-lasting

“omaiyari” (considerate and peaceful) friendships. Eleven year old Junior Ambassadors (JA) are encouraged to fully participate in these activities to learn to be ‘color-blind,’ to not judge one another by race or cultural aspects. APCC believes bonds such as these will influence the lives of these individuals, influence their friends, and influence the future, for the better. Their vision embraces the modern cultural interaction, of young people, first-hand. Delegates are expected to not only get along, but more importantly, to honor each others’ similarities and differences. The mutual understanding created between them is free of political, economic, religious, and cultural restrictions. About 43 different countries are represented at this event, approximately 220 Junior Ambassadors in all.

The 10th annual APCC marked a milestone for the convention when former JAs were invited back to Fukuoka as Peace Ambassadors. Peace Ambassadors (PA) meet under a mission to create a world wide network, to communicate ideas more effectively and creating real global citizens, the Bridge Club International Organization (BCIO). Peace Ambassador Serena Li, from Hawaii, said, “You really hold more responsibilities, you have an agenda that you go through in the conference and its kind of like a model UN kind of discussion, where we talk about local issues around the world and decide.” PAs then returned home where many started local Bridge Clubs, integrating their community. Currently there are 25 Bridge Clubs, including Bridge Club Hawaii. One of the main topics of the PAs is the Common Activity. This implements every PA to contribute to BCIO within their own community. The Common Activity this past year was called “Visions of Harmony.” A traveling picture gallery was publicly displayed in 26 different countries, promoting the APCC and a global community.

The APCC also sponsors a program for the students in Fukuoka called “The Mission Project.” Every year selected Japanese students travel together, as ambassadors to many destination countries, and stay with host families. For three years Hawaii has been fortunate to be one of the destinations. Hawaii’s APCC director, Liz Stanton-Berrera, comments about the Mission Project saying, “...it extends what the APCC is all about, as far as developing young children with that sense of global awareness and helping to foster their desire their sense for world peace.”