"The Others" is the student group of the organizations which I'm involved. The Others is in El Salvador, Honduras, Italy, France, and Japan. During my staying there, I was working with the members. We do many things; for example, we organize a lecture about peace, cultures, wars, etc, visit a hospital, hold a bazaar for funds for the children in the slum, have a conversation with university students about world topics, and go to the school for the children in the slum. One of the main purposes to go to El Salvador was going the school, and I did it in weekdays. I will talk more about this activity later.
One day, I did a lecture about Japanese culture in an university. I taught origami to the students. When I got the university, no one was there; however, more than ten people came to the lecture about 30 minutes later, and it was very fun! I think that lecture was successful. At the same time, I found many people in El Salvador are interested in Japan; in fact, I met some Salvadorians who spoke Japanese fluently and students who study Japanese. I was surprised because I didn't expect that people were interested in Japanese.
This is interesting, Momoko. I would like to encourage you to consider writing a much longer piece on your travel there, something that would tie together the different aspects of your experience there. These short posts are good, though, as they can be the building blocks to that larger project. I would love to read it.
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