September 27, Saturday

1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Looking back

Maple Room, Indiana Memorial Union (IMU)

This is the time to reminisce and share photos. If you have slides or video excerpts you’d like to show the group, please let Mary know. Refreshments will be served.

2:30 – 3:15 p.m. One image

Present to the group one photo, slide or video clip that for you encapsulates how the trip influenced you professionally or personally.

3:30 – 4:30 p.m. Bringing us up to date: discussion lead by Mike Robinson

Mike’s assignment for you: “Hopefully, our intense tour of Japan jogged your perceptions of Japanese society and its place in the contemporary world. Please be thinking about how your perceptions of Japan and East Asia as a whole have been affected by your experience this summer. Do you see Japan and Japanese historical and cultural experience in a new light? For example, how does Japanese memorialization of its World War II experience, its embracing of pacifism, or its renewed interest in self-defense figure in your awareness of the significance of Japan's historical experience on contemporary affairs? Please come prepared to share your insights on this issue."

4:30 – 5:00 p.m. Overview of Lotus World Music Festival – lead by Anne Prescott

5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Free time to prepare and walk to dinner. Those who want to walk to dinner together will leave the IMU at 5:30.

6:00 - ? Group dinner at Samira’s Restaurant, downtown Bloomington (100 West 6^th Street.) We’ll distribute maps at orientation.

rest of the evening… Independent Study Time!

You’ll receive a wristband/ticket that will get you into all the evening’s Lotus Festival events. We will have detailed schedules at the meeting. Twenty-three groups will be performing at various venues in downtown Bloomington from 7 pm until midnight. They are all walkable distances from Samira’s and campus. (And you won’t be carrying any luggage! Yea!) Highlights of the evening include a parade at 8:15 and a performance by Music from China.

Oyasuminasai!

September 28, Sunday

7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast

Maple Room, IMU

8:30 a.m. – noon Putting it all together: the curriculum and community project

John Frank writes, “Sunday morning's session of our reunion is devoted to the curriculum and instructional component of our study tour. In addition to submitting our "Classroom Curriculum Project" plan, please be prepared to discuss, for five or ten minutes, the impact of the trip upon your classroom and community. Also, would it be possible for each participant to present a brief (five to fifteen minute) demonstration of materials or strategies that you use to teach about East Asia? It would be great fun, and of great benefit, for all of us to see the variety of methods and materials that such accomplished educators use to teach about East Asia.”

noon – 1:00 p.m. Working lunch

Wrap up, final questions, etc.

*For those interested in looking at resources in the EASC library, I will open the library and be around to help from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. on Sunday.