{"id":13750,"date":"2024-04-11T16:08:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T07:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/?p=13750"},"modified":"2024-06-07T10:55:46","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T01:55:46","slug":"lyla-normand-volunteering-at-mitsuba-kindergarten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/2024\/04\/11\/lyla-normand-volunteering-at-mitsuba-kindergarten","title":{"rendered":"Lyla Normand: Volunteering at Mitsuba Kindergarten"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"For my CIP I commuted to Mitsuba Kindergarten once a week to help out at the kindergarten for about 2 hours (from 2-4). The kindergarten is a 10 minute walk away from Doshisha\u2019s Imadegawa campus so it was really convenient location wise. The kindergarten is not very structured and my job was basically to facilitate the kids\u2019 play time for 2 hours. I usually spent my time doing puzzles with them, or drawing with them\u2014essentially anything the kids wanted to do.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a really tiring job but it\u2019s plenty of fun if you like kids. The 3 year olds were more shy so I was mostly approached by the 5 year olds to play. I\u2019d recommend this CIP if you enjoy spending time with kids! It\u2019s definitely rewarding but a very draining experience. I don\u2019t think I learned much Japanese from this CIP but I made a few enduring memories with some of the kids that I\u2019ll treasure. They\u2019re very friendly children and I was expecting to have to try very hard to connect with them but they actually approach you! It was gratifying watching some kids open themselves up to me over the course of my visits.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My advice would be to think carefully about what you want to get out of your CIP before you make a decision! I did enjoy spending time at the kindergarten but I wouldn\u2019t recommend it for everyone. I didn\u2019t learn a whole lot about Japanese culture or language from the CIP but I learned how kids minds\u2019 work and how best to mediate their conflicts. I think you could transfer these skills to work at any kindergarten or institution with younger children. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For my CIP I commuted to Mitsuba Kindergarten once a week to help out at the kindergarten for about 2 hours (f … \u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080 →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":652,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_locale":"ja","_original_post":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/?p=13750"},"categories":[177,6,56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13752,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13750\/revisions\/13752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}