Day 5 (11/11/16)
At 10:40 a.m. we had an audit lecture at Waseda University conducted by Professor Yoshiko Nozaki on the topic “Women, sports and education policy”. The class was divided into 6 groups of students with one or two Indian students per group.
Each group was supposed to discuss about the following topics:
1) What are the merits and demerits of taking up sports?
2) Do you think it is good for our society if more men and women take up sports and engage in athletic activities? Why do you think so?
3) If you were a policy maker, in order to encourage more women to participate in sports and athletic activities, what would you do first, second and third? Would you like to formulate our strategies to achieve your policy goals?
All the groups were given around 20 minutes to discuss the topics and make points to present in front of the class. After all the groups were done presenting, the class was dismissed.
At 2 pm we went to visit the writing centre, where we meet Professor Sadoshima and her colleagues who explained to us how their writing centre works. We were offered pocky’s since it was pocky day on November 11. Later on we had the opportunity to see where they conduct their sessions.
After this we went to experience the traditional Japanese tea ceremony. We had to wait quite a while since they were getting it ready for us. We were asked to sit down and were first served a sweet and then the green tea; we were shown the right way of drinking it after this we left from the university to the hostel.
After arriving at the hostel we rested and then had discussions about our plans for the next day. All of us had fun as we sat down for dinner together and then all of us took a nice long bath and went to sleep.
By Asmita Hegde
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