Camping and Aussie foods the highlights

This week we reluctantly farewell three Year 10 Japanese students who have completed a one term exchange program at the Pakenham Campus.

Naoto, Hiroumi and Shunta, who are from Japan’s Meiho High School, talk about the highlights of their stay at Beaconhills:

Naoto:
Naoto has enjoyed studying at Beaconhills College so much that he is reluctant to go home when his exchange finishes at the end of the term.

Naoto

“I would like to have longer here,” he says. He says he has found his Homestay family very friendly and welcoming.

And he says Australian food, while different to Japanese, is delicious: “I like Australian meat pies”.

Hiroumi:

Hiroumi enjoyed trying the classic Australian dessert, pavlova.

Hiroumi

He was excited about the chance to go camping with fellow students as part of Beaconhills’ Outdoor Education Program and had already practiced sleeping in a tent at the house of his Homestay family – although he says the cockatoos woke him up too early.

Hiroumi has made lots of friends in classes at school: “Aussie girls are very friendly..and beautiful.”

Shunta:

Shunta has a special interest in art and has enjoyed the variety of the class and being able to work in different materials and styles.

Shunta

“I have made many different things in Art,” he says.

One of the highlights of Shunta’s stay has been visiting his host family’s holiday house in Loch Sport, in the Gippsland Lakes area of Victoria.

• This week also marked the end of a four week visit to the Berwick Campus by a Thai study group. We wish them all the best for their return home.

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