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Originally Posted by Columbine

久しぶり！

yyttさんのアイデアは面白そうと思います。

columbineさん　ありがとう～！
私も　面白そうだ　と　思うの！
　応援してね！

I think if I were a tourist in Nagano, you could ask me where I was from, where I had ~been~ in Nagano during my stay, what I thought of it. On the train 5 mins is actually quite long for filming, but you could point out things out the window, perhaps talk about Nagano and it's history, or what YOU like best about it. But pointing things out with the japanese words would be interesting too! Or you could maybe talk to other people on the train, if they don't mind.

OK, so when the kids see the tourists (or anyone)
they could ask them like...
1)Where are you from?
2)Where have you visited in Nagano already?
3)Where else are you going to visit during your stay?
4)What did you think of XXX?

on the train...
1)Look at the XXX. That's xxx.
2)Here is called XXX and there was a big battle called XXX in xxxx.
(actually 30 second walk from our school there is a place like that)
3)Can you see the building over there? That's my favourite sweet shop.
like these?

Oh yes, we will try to talk to the people on the train.
(Maybe I should go and talk to the manager of the railway company first to get a permission and also I will tell all the people who kindly talking to us about the video thing to make sure if it's ok to have their faces in it or just their voices...)

I love to have local people as many as possible to help us,
but I don't want to do it in an ordinary way... like puting up some paper saying "Join us if you are interested in making a video in English!" , because then we will have people who ARE already interested in English and oversas... and for sure they will be very helpful but this time, I really want more people who don't really care about English or overseas to join us,
in order to make tiny bit of a change for this "too conservative" town!

People say Japanese are basically shy (maybe not in Osaka!) but I don't think they are really really shy...
I think that they are just too afraid of being "disliked" or making "a scean" in public, in spite of the fact that they'd love to be helpful and friendly and I think they are secretly waiting for being asked for help!
So I'm going to go out there with the kids and try to see if my method works , asking questions about this city and whatever
and tell them what we are doing and ask them to join us if they are interested.

Well Im going to talk about all this with the kids before hand, and make them understand being polite + friendly is very very important when we want to talk to the strangers.

If you like, you could just do a demo of how to use the machine. "Put the money in here" (put the coins/note in) "push this button" (pushes the button) "And the ticket comes out!"

Thank you, how about this?

Let's take a train to go to the city!
(my "city" means around the main staion, is "the city" OK to use here?)

walking to the staion...

This is the vending machine for the train tickets.
(I was so stupid to say "bending" ! I was drunk too, but I realized that Im a real Japanese to make that mistake!)

You can put the coins in here... and the note in here...
and push this button....
then the ticket comes out!

Nagano is a City, even if it's small, you still use 市 right?

I meant that "Nagano" as a 県 (prefecture you call?)
Nagano city is in it as well as our city Ueda.
Nagano city looks big enough to me to call it a city, but
Ueda isn't really... it is 市 but it's very quiet and small...


thanks Columbine さん
have a happy day!