"CAP"

Critical
Academic
Preparation


Indeed it was a CAP day!
Today, my fellow Global teaching fellows and I lead nine 30 minute sessions. Each of us taught a specific topic the whole day. My session was "Class Preparedness." We defined prepare, listened to a cloze activity, ran a relay for school materials, identified the first class tomorrow, and made a checklist of materials needed for each class. It was a fun and exhausting day. I met 121 students today from Tokyo International University who embarked on their 11 month journey abroad to Salem, Oregon. Majority of the students are Japanese and there are students representing China, Korea, and one with a dual citizenship.

It is brave of these students to go somewhere outside their culture and home bubble.

Tomorrow is the first day of spring classes! Let the adventure continue.