Diana Kim, Multicultural Club FounderWhen I first started the WAHS Multicultural Club, the primary goal was to make WAHS more culturally aware. We’ve been going through ideas for events and activities, to keep the club more active. In school, we’re given technology to use, and I think we should use it to our full advantage. I began to research how to use technology at school to learn about culture and one thing that popped up was videochat. Then I looked into how to connect with international classrooms. I talked to Claire Aminuddin, our club VP.. During the summer she had gone to High School Diplomats, a cultural exchange program at Princeton, where she met Japanese students. We decided to connect to the group chat they had.
We picked a date to meet, Feb. 1st, and we skyped with five Japanese students, three on the screen in one room, and two in the other. The best way to adapt to the time difference was to get to school early. 8am for us is 10pm at night for them. Claire developed conversation starters as a plan B in case we didn’t know what to ask. I thought the conversations flowed really well. We had a lot of things to compare. The Japanese students all speak English really well. English is part of their curriculum. I think they start learning English at a young age. There wasn’t much of a language barrier, and we were grateful for their ability to speak English. Topics included:
Diana Kim is a WAHS sophomore. She is active in band,and interested in politics and international relations. In addition to founding the Multicultural Club, Diana is a part of Model U.N., We the People, is an officer of the Crozet Library Teen Advisory Board, and is an intern with the Downtown Crozet Initiative. Read Diana's post about Over The Moon Bookstore for the DCI here.
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