171120_多種多様な第2回！_Many kinds of great people enjoyed the 2nd "gardeN" !!

English below (英語版は下です！挑戦してみてください＾＾）

今回は、湯本公民館での第2回gardeNの様子をお届けします！

な、な、なんと！！！
雪で足元が悪い中12名もの方が参加してくれました！
初回は2名だったので、奇跡的な増え方ですねっ！感謝！

人が多けりゃいいってもんでもないですが、多様な人（小学生も高校生も様々なとこで働く大人もネイティブも！）が集まったことによっていろんな話題が出たし、カオスで賑やかだったので個人的にはめちゃくちゃ楽しかったです！

人数が多くレベルもそれぞれだったので、今回は以下の2チームに分かれて活動を行いました！

その名も、

「アナ」チームそして、「エルサ」チーム！！！

ええ、埼玉育ちの僕にはとんでもなく大雪だったので、この名前を選びました（笑）
ちょっと古い？（笑）
（西和賀民には、こんなの序の口だと笑われます。。。ツライ。。）

滅多にないからはしゃぎます。/Like a first penguin...
※活動には関係ありません（笑）

さて、気になる活動内容は？？？


まずはアナ！アナでは日本語を交えながら、、
「私のお気入りは、、」という活動をしました。

その名の通り、自分のお気に入りを英語で伝えてみる活動です＾＾

・お気に入りの果物はブドウ！美味しいから！
・お気に入りの季節は夏！花火を観られるからです！
・お気に入りの自然は西和賀！西和賀の自然はお洒落でしょ！？
・お気に入りの色は白！雪が好きなんです！

なんていう話が出ました！理由まで聞くといろんな答えが出て面白かったです！


お次はエルサっ！エルサチームはオールイングリッシュで、
「お題についてひたすらフリートーク」をやりました！

・西和賀と盛岡どっちが好き？
・修学旅行について教えて！
・学校について教えて！

などなどなどなど。上記のテーマをひとつずつ深堀りしながらもちろん英語でフリートーク。時間になっても話が続くくらい盛り上がってました＾＾

自分のレベルに合わせてどちらかを選んでの活動でしたが、どちらも自分の考えを伝えることを大切に時間を過ごしました。

せっかく多く人に来てもらったので、ここからは何人かの感想を載せたいと思います＾＾


★久しぶりに英語を使ったので全然話せなくて自分でもビックリしました笑。これからたくさん表現を増やしてコミュニケーションを取れるといいなーと思います！♥

★言葉は使わないとどんどん忘れてしまうものだなぁとつくづく実感しています。とはいえ、日常の中で脳と口の筋肉を英語モードにして誰かと話をする機会はなかなかなく。レベルはそれぞれでも「みんなが英語を使って話をしようとしている場所」ができたことがすごく嬉しいです(*´ω｀*)大人も子供も学生も社会人も同じ立場で居るから、どんなアイディアが出てくるかわからない楽しさもありました。

★めっちゃ楽しかったから来週も行きたい♪

★コンプレックスなくらい英語に苦手意識があったんですけど、後半はそれを意識しないくらいに楽しくできました。また次も楽しみにしています～！

★西和賀に住んでいる人ならではの会話が英語でできてとても新鮮で楽しかったです！

★皆と楽しく話すことができたし、このような機会は今までになかったのでとても新鮮でした！次回からもっとたくさんの人と話してみたい！


来週は27日（月）1830~2000、湯本公民館です！
人数や集まる人の様子によって、柔軟にやり方を変えていきたいと思いますので、少しでも興味ある方は、まずご連絡ください‼また、ご自身のお知り合いで興味ある方がいたら、是非シェアしてください！スーパー喜びますっ‼

では！雪にお気を付けてお過ごしください！←


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We are gonna tell about the 2nd "gardeN" at Yumoto community center!

Super surprisingly, we had as many as twelve people in "gardeN" though heavy snow made it difficult to come! There were only two members in the 1st "gardeN", so it was like a miracle!

It is not nessesary to have many people in "gardeN", but thanks to many kinds of people (an elementary school student, high school students, various workers, a native speaker)coming, we could have lots of points of view and it was lively, so I could spend pretty great time!!

As there were many people and their levels of speaking English were different, we had prepared two teams for 2nd "gardeN".

Names for the two teams were "Ana" aaaandd "Elsa"!!

Because I'd lived in Saitama since I was born and I came here in Nishiwaga just in this April, I felt this snow was so much heavy and I chose these names. Is it a little bit old?? Lol
(For people in Nishiwaga, this snow is like a baby... I'm really scared...)


Anyway, what we did in 2nd "gardeN" was...


Members of "Ana" did an activity named "my favorite ○○ is..." with using both English and Japanese.

Same as name, it is an activity in which they try to tell their favorite things with some reasons, like these↓

・My favorite fruit is a grape because it is delicious.
・My favorite season is summer because I can enjoy watching fireworks.
・My favorite nature is Nishiwaga because I think it is fashionable!
・My favorite color is white because I like snow.

Because there were various choices and reasons, it was interesting!

Next..
Elsa members did "freely talk about some topics picked up" in all English! 

・Which do you like better Nishiwaga or Morioka?
・Please tell us about your school trip!
・Please tell us about your school life!

and so on. They talked freely in all English about these topics. They enjoyed talking even after the time was up!

There were two types of team but the important thing was same. It was "to tell what you think/want to tell" and everyone could enjoy talking while keeping it in our mind.

That's all for report for 2nd "gardeN" and from here we will introduce some impressions of members. Please check them out!


★As I had not spoken English for a long time, I couldn't speak at all at first. I hope I can communicate with others in English with a lot of expressions!♥

★I often realize there is a large possibility to forget how to speak English if I don't use in daily life. However there is few chances here in Nishiwaga to talk with someone in English and no chance to switch my brain from Japanese mode to English one. So I'm very glad to have "gardeN" in which everyone tries hard to talk in English no matter how high or low their levels are. I think it is a good point of "gardeN" that we have various members from children to adults, from students to workers, men and women and all of them are in same position and tahnks to this, there were much more kinds of ideas and thoughts than I'd expected.

★I enjoyed so much today and I wanna join next week again♪

★I'd thought that I'd been totally bad at English but in the last half, I could enjoy without feeling nervous for English. I'm now really looking forward to next "gardeN"!

★It was a pretty new experience for me to talk in English with various people living in Nishiwaga. It was fun!

★I could enjoy talk with members! Such an experience was super fresh for me and I wanna talk with much more people next time!


Such lovely comments^^

The 3rd "gardeN" will be held on next Monday, 27th of November, from 1830 to 2000 at Yumoto community center!

We think we can change what and how we do depending on a number of people and their situation about English!

So please don't be nervous to contact with us if you have an interest no matter how small it is. And please share about "gardeN" to your friends who are interested in speaking English! We will become super happy:)

Please be careful with snow~~!

Thanks!

文責：早川大輝/Daiki Hayakawa