This trip will mark the fifth time students have embarked on this study tour. The students have been busily planning and saving for this trip for over a year. We depart Australia on the Thursday, the last day of school and will be in Japan for 16 days.
This study tour is a perfect opportunity for students to practise and use the Japanese they have learnt in the classroom. The students will be travelling around Japan for the two weeks exploring the old and new Japan and its unique culture.
In our first week in Tokyo, the girls will be going to the Imperial Palace Gardens. They will explore Akihabara (electronic city) and Shinjuku to see and touch all the latest emerging technology that is coming out. They will go to Harajuku which has become the mecca for teenage fashion and pop culture. They will go to Tokyo Disney Sea and experience the world of Disney in Japanese. They will spend a day in a Japanese primary school and travel to our sister school, Shonan Shirayuri Gakuen and spend three days and nights in a homestay with a student family from Shonan Shirayuri.
They will then travel from Tokyo to Kyoto, the old Capital of Japan, on the bullet train travelling at speeds of 300 kilometres an hour. We will go to places including Nara, the heart of Buddhism and visit temples and shrines that are 1500 years old. Students will have the opportunity to dress up in traditional Japanese kimono and shop in the old traditional markets. We will travel to Hiroshima and visit the Peace Park and Atomic Bomb museum which is a very moving experience as they will see the history behind the dropping of the atomic bomb at the end of WW2.
It is a very busy trip and the students will have an experience of a lifetime. You will be able to follow our trip on Facebook and details of this will be emailed out to the College community in the next few days.
These students will not only be ambassadors of Australia, but will also represent the College and be leaders for each other while on our trip.

Julian Nash - Languages Coordinator