Changhua County Students Set Off for Japan Exchange to Broaden Their Horizons

(Taiwan Business News) Changhua County is holding its seventh city cultural exchange, and will visit Ehime Prefecture, Japan, from May 20 to May 24. At yesterday's (19th) pre-departure press conference, Changhua County Magistrate Cho Po-yuan attended in person to cheer on this group of young diplomatic vanguards, hoping that through educational and cultural exchange activities, the students would have a rich and fulfilling learning journey and broaden their horizons even further.

At the event, students from the cultural exchange delegation gave wonderful performances, including martial arts, dance, recorder, and ocarina, among many other acts, showing the many talents of Changhua's students; Magistrate Cho also presented a letter of appreciation to Japan's Yuyuan Co., Ltd., thanking it for its great assistance with this activity, which allowed the event to proceed smoothly.

This year, 80 Sunshine Star students stood out in competitions such as swimming, ocarina, lion dance, ten-drum performance, science exhibitions, mother-tongue storytelling, countywide English singing, and the national Hakka speech contest. Each Sunshine Star student could be said to be accomplished in both academic and practical skills. For example, student You from Ludong Elementary School is the child of a foreign spouse, serves as vice class leader in her class, is eager to help others, is skilled in recorder, dance, singing, and other talents, and once won third place in Group A of an English singing competition. She is quite excited and nervous about being selected as a Sunshine Star representative to Japan, and it is also her first time going abroad. She said she was grateful that the county government had such a good program that gave her the chance to go abroad and broaden her horizons.

This year, the county government continues to hold the seventh city cultural exchange, and will visit Ehime Prefecture, Japan, from May 20 to May 24, 2014 (ROC year 103), led by Changhua County Deputy Magistrate Lin Tien-fu and Education Department Director Chang Chi-yu, leading 80 Sunshine Star sixth-grade elementary school students on a cultural visit. Through educational and cultural exchange visits, the students' international horizons will be expanded and the strengths of Japanese education learned from.