(436) The 23rd WSJ [英作文]
(436) The 23rd WSJ
1. Do you know what’s WSJ?
These letters stand for the World Scout Jamboree. The 23rd World Scout Jamboree was hosted in Japan from Tuesday, 28th July to Saturday, 8th August 2015. Its participants are male and female Scouts aged 14 to 17 years old.
2. Where was the Jamboree site?
The 23rd World Scout Jamboree was held in Kirara-hama, Yamaguchi, Japan.Kirara-hama is a reclaimed land in Yamaguchi City, which s located in the western part of Honsu, extending about 1km from north to south and 3 km from east to west (286 ha), and is equipped with developed facilities and parks. Kirara-hama was the site for Japan Expo Yamaguchi in 2001.
3. What did the scouts do there?
About 34 thousand scouts gathered from 155 countries all over the world actively discuss and think about global issues such as peace and international understanding. Participants developed physically, intellectually, emotionally, socially and spiritually through large-scale camping experience in an international environment supported by adults.
4. How many people in Ehime joined the Jamboree?
60 scouts and 34 adult leaders participated the Jamboree.
5. What did I do for the Jamboree?
Home hospitality was one of the programs of the Jamboree. In Ehime a home hospitality program was offered after the Jamboree. Thirty scouts for the UK and 199 scouts from Australia were going to visit cities in Ehime prefecture. I helped Matsuyama’s staffs to communicate to Australian staffs when 7 buses carried those scouts. On the last day of the Jamboree I saw a closing ceremony.
6. Home hospitality
Scouts from abroad stayed with Scout families for 2-3 day. Through this home hospitality program scouts from overseas deepened their understanding of Japanese culture, customs and way of
life, and cultivated mutual understanding.
7. Useful Phrases to start conversation
Hello. What’s your name? Where are you from? Thank you.
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