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I liked making the video because I got

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to take pictures of everybody and

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sometimes I got to get out of class .

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The most enjoyable part was was

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filming and photo going outside just

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just to be out there and doing it

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what and interviewing kids in early

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december 2021 student members of the R .

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And media nights an after school club

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aren't elementary school began actively

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filming videos and taking photos to

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document a day in the life of an

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average american student . A few years

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ago we started a cultural exchange with

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curry hara elementary school , which is

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a local japanese school . And at that

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time we were able to visit their school

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and their students were able to come to

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ours due to covid restrictions . Last

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year we were not able to conduct the

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exchange this year , a plan was

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created to exchange videos between the

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two schools . They captured students

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morning routines at the school along

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with scenes in the classroom , the

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cafeteria and on the school bus . They

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even captured footage of what the

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restrooms in an american school look

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like in an effort to show every detail

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as part of a cultural exchange project

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with their friends at the japanese

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Kurihara elementary school . When I

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made the video , I was thinking I would

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do bathrooms and bus is the reason I

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did busses was because I was gonna

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because I go on the bus . So I know a

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little bit about it and when we came

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when we came out um I started taking

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pictures and videos of the busses . We

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went onto the bus and it was really fun

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but for the bathrooms it was , it was

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different because then the busses ,

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when we were doing the bathrooms , we

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had the kind of like coach down there ,

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good pictures and it was , it was

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confusing and hard to get the right

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picture . We had to take lots of videos

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of classrooms and we got to take

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pictures of like what all the

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classrooms look like or what all the

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critters look like for for the entire

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classes and it was kind of fun . There

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was definitely a learning curve for our

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students because we just started the

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club and about november and so this was

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our very first project but we all just

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dove in and they did wonderfully while

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the students at ARN were preparing

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their video , the students and one

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teacher at Kurihara were doing the same ,

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capturing various scenes of daily life

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at a Japanese school . This included

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footage inside the classrooms , the

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latest things that were popular with

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students and even a special dance they

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performed at their annual sports

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festival . In early january of this

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year . School officials including Armed

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Principal Dr Edwin Munoz and staff from

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the U . S . Army Garrison Japan public

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Affairs office visited Kurihara to give

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their video to the school and received

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from Kandahar to the video that

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Japanese students had created . I kind

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of liked how they were trying really

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hard to speak english and I really

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liked how all the classrooms

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taught us have played their classroom

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games . I kind of would like them to

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know how

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how different or how similar the

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schools could be . If you just compare

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them , it was really nice how they

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showed how their activities were and

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all their events , how they celebrated .

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It makes me feel really good about

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being part of this and helping the

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Japanese kids learn what we do because

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maybe someday in the future if they

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become like , if they know english and

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they want to go to like schools and

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english english America , then they can ,

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you know , sort of how we do things .

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This unique cultural exchange gave the

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students at both schools the

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opportunity to get an in depth look at

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student life from a different

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perspective . The R and media Knights

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also got to learn more about the

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technical aspects of photography and

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videography in creating their video . I

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think that the students have definitely

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learned um , exactly what a day is like

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in the japanese school , which is very

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interesting to them because we're

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fortunate to be able to live here in

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this wonderful country of japan .

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However , we don't always get to see

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the day to day activities that japanese

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Children and adults have . So I think

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that's been a wonderful opportunity for

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them . Um , to see similarities and

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differences and just to be able to have

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that opportunity to share out about our

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world to them and we hope going forward

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once the covid restrictions lift that

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will be able to continue this exchange

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in person . And so then they can

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potentially even build friendships

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going forward , reporting for US , Army

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Garrison Japan . This is Dustin Perry .