♪Philippine♪

In this summer, I enjoyed visiting many places which are Philippine, Shiga, Nagano, Gifu and USJ.
Everything were interesting for me.
But, I will introduce one event.

I belong to a volunteer circle named Habitat.
This picture was taken in Philippine.
In August, I and members stayed there for twelve days.
We teached Japanese culture, kanji, the four seasons etc... to Philippine children.
In adition, we did activities which are Japanese festival, aizome, making map and sports festival.

Philippine children have shining eyes and big smiles.
They made me happy☆

The boy's name is Justine who is four years old and she is his grandmother in this picture.
She is a domestic helper of house which is for us staying.
She treated me like a her grandchild and she was very kind.
Becouse he was shy in front of strangers at first, I spoke to him but he completely ignored me.
But he got to come up to me after I held him in my arms.
Then we played everyday...
He can't speak English of course Japanese so we don't have ways of communication.
However, I thought that we are congenial.
The final day, I didn't want to go back Japan.
When I said good-bye to grandmother, she cried and told me "Don't forget me and Justine.Please come back here next year. I miss you!!"
Becouse I was also sad, I cried with grondmother.

I think that I had a valuable experience in Philippine so I want to remember this encounter with them.
Then I decided to go to Philippine next year!!