Mikaela+Whiteman


 * Refelection from city excursion**

Question 1: What did you learn from completing the three tasks? Task 1: I learnt how many places such as shops and restaurants there are in Russel St and Ehibition St. There weren't alot of places in Exhibition St but there were heaps in Russell St. I didn't realise how much of teh shops in the city are Japanese and you can use Japanese skills in those places for jobs. Task 2: This helped with reading katakana because of the street names and also i learned about 'giving directions' sentences in japanese and improved on those. Task 3: I obviously learnt about a japanese business in Melbourne. I was really interested in what our interviewee had to say about the business in which he worked in.

Question 2: What challenges did you experience whilst completing each task?

Task 1: Getting to the actual streets took up alot of the time. Once we got there however, it was easy getting to the next street and then getting back to Melbourne central. Task 2: A few directions we got completely wrong, if Mr Lane wasn't trailing behind us and couldn't lead us in the right direction when we starting going in the opposite direction, it would've taken us a much longer time to complete the task. Task 3: Because of the language barrier, we could only get simple answers from the person we were interviewing and he couldn't ask us many things other than things he knew in Japanese. But understanding his responses to the questions when we were intereviewing him wasn't difficult at all.

Question 3: How has this experience changed your understanding of how Japanese can be used outside of school? I didn't realise how many successful businesses, restauraunts and shops were in the Melbourne city area. I have learnt there are alot more places Japanese can be used after school just in the city.