Work as a design intern in Japan

Saori Latvala from Omnia practiced her skills in audio-visual media design in Tokyo. She shared her experiences in the presentation: Presentation for Erasmus+

Turism in Japan – experiences in Mito

Venla Moisio spent two months in Mito hotel. 2 months for a learning period at a hotel is pretty short term and I wanted to be able to learn as much as possible. So instead of sticking to bellhop and front reception I asked the GM if there was anything else I could do or at least try to do. …

GOOGLE PLAY PROJECT

Four Finnish students from HANAKO Network, Aura Koponen, Emmi Mikkilä, Lauri Ståhlberg ja Teemu Heinonen, stayed for two months internship in Japan, Tokyo, at Worker Bee Inc. (https://www.wkb.jp/en/) and created a new game in Google Play. Here you can find link to the game: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.wkb.gurugurudoubutsu.gp These students are from different colleges and from different towns. They met first time during …

How we made a game in Tokyo

I arrived in Japan 11th of February, on a Sunday morning, with 3 other interns. The 10hr flight went surprisingly fast, I watched a few movies on board and tried to sleep, without much success on the latter though. We were picked up from the airport by our employers, and we drove to the Sakura House office to sign tons …

How children play in Finland

Tomomi Ashikawa, the kindergarten teacher from Suzuki Gakuen Shirayuri Kindergarten, had her intership in Finland, Vuorenmäen kindergarten in May 2017. Please read her experiences here: AshikawaReport

Sakura and wagashi in the land of rising sun

Tarja Airaksinen from Omnia Adult Education Centre was in Yamanashi in 2016. Who would have thought that it would take me almost ten years to get to the land that I have always dreamed about. The knowledge that I was really going hit me while I was sitting wating for them to start bording the plane on Thursday the 8th …

First dance students in Osaka

Santasport is a sports institute offering Vocational Education in Dance in Rovaniemi, close to the Arctic Circle, located at the fell Ounasvaara in the middle of the picturesque northern nature of Finland. First students travelled to Osaka October 2015. We will have very soon more information about their exciting time in Osaka. Santasport Institut

My experiences in Jinpuu

When I came to Chiba to work in JINPUU, I thought that two months is a very long time. I also thought that I would feel lonely, miss my home and my husband, that I would be exhausted from the physical work, and basically felt worried about lot of things.’  wrote Carita Österberg in her blog. I can’t thank Jinpuu’s …

Vuorenmäki daycare

Media Play Could Work also in the Yume-Chuo Day-Care Centre Media play and playground impressed Mr. Yutaka Komoto, vice-director of the Yume-Chuo day-care centre, who paid a one-week visit to the Vuorenmäki day-care centre in Kirkkonummi in November 2012. Inspiring Play Mr. Komoto hoped that media play could be introduced also to Yume-Chuo. “It was interesting to see how the …