In my recent visit to Japan, I was especially astonished by the amount of field trips for preschoolers and the bravery of the teachers to round them up and control them in field trips to the City, and taking public transport. I certainly don’t see this much back home. We arrived at Narita Airport and took an hour long train into Tokyo. This is where we saw the kids (above), all with their standard hats, high pitch voices and only 2 teacher to hull the 30 odd kids together. I first notice the hats. All of them has the same hat, its like a school uniform, except on the head. Its purpose must be to ease the teacher to pick them up in the crowd. During our 2 weeks stay, we came across many different kind of hats. We initially though different hats for different grades, and later realize it was up to the school actually. Majority of the kids were well behave, and only one or two are a little rowdy. This explain why the teachers are at ease to bring them to the City as huge and busy as Tokyo. Another thing I notice in Japan is the design for practicality. If you look at the hats the kids are wearing, you will notice it has a locking string below it that goes around the neck. If the hat is blown off, it will still be caught by the string. Imagine, if the kids were crossing the road, and a strong gush of wind came and take the hats together with it. The child’s fist instinct would be to chase and pick up the hat, and would not regard about the cars zooming around him/her. This tiny string avoids that scenario and many others in similar nature, and thus reduces incidents regarding to hats flying off. It is interesting to see so many preschoolers crowding with commuters going into the City, I could imagine the teachers nightmare in doing this, and again, I could imagine the child’s enthusiasm and fun on such trips. Japan is truly an amazing country, you have to make a trip there this lifetime..
On this day..
- Sick Online and Offline - 2008
- 400 in, another 1000 to go - 2007
- Want to reduce fuel subsidy? Fix internal leakage first. - 2007
- Tell Someone about Cervical Cancer - 2006
- Get tipsy with Ko-Shu (matured sake) - 2006
