A reply from Okinawa High School

Dear Sue.
Thank you for your e-mail.
I am sorry late reply.
My students and I are at Sam-Ming (Home Economics & Commerce
Vocational )High School.^^

That is a good to have Teddy Bear exchange.
Our school year start at April.

See you.

Ask for Teddy Bear Exchange

Dear Ueno San,

Do you remember you once visited our school a few years ago? It was the first time we worked together to start our Teddy Bear Project and VC.
We would like to exchange little ambassador (Teddy Bear) with you this year. What do you think? I know you will come to Taiwan this Friday. Students would be very happy if this works.

Sue

Hello, Kiyoko

Hi, Kiyoko, How are you? My name is Ivy. I am a student of San Min. I like my school very much because the environment is good. I love to eat cookies and candies. And you? Can you speak Chinese? I want to be a doctor. What do you want to be?
Nice to meet you.
Ivy, Class 816-28

Hello, Kiyoko

Hello, Kiyoko,
It's so nice to receive your email. This is Cindy Chiu. Istudy in San Min and I am in 8 grade. I also like to watch sports, such as NBA and MBL. My favorite baseball player is Mr. Wang, who comes from Taiwan, and he is in New York Yankee. I hope we'll have agreat time when we meet each other in Kaohsiung.
Sincerely
Cindy class 821-28

Hi, Kiyoko

Hi, my name is Jason, a 13 year-old student in San Min.
In our school, there are many handsome boys and pretty girls. I am a little cute and I study hard. My dream is to be a teacher.
I like to take a trip to many places because I like to see beautiful scenery. I also like to watch sport gameson TV, but I am not very good at it. I admire you play sports well. What sports do you play?
Jason, Class 813-19

Hello, Kiyoko

My name is Michelle, a 14 year-old student.
There are 4 people in my family. I like to eat vegetables and drink fresh juice. How about you? I hope you can come to Taiwan because there are many delicious foods here. In most of our night markets, a strange smell food "stinky tofoo" is quite popular here. Funny, right?
Michelle, class 802

Hello, Kiyoko

Hi, Kiyoko
I am Doris, a 8th grader.
I like sports, too. Sometimes, I play basketball with my brother. I also like rock music. Do you know"MAYDAY", famous band in Taiwan. Someday I wish I can have a band. What is your dream?
Doris, Class 808

hi, Kiyoko

Hi, I am E.D. Lee, and my friends like to call me "Taro". I like to play spots,too. My favorite sport is basketball though I like to watch baseball game.
My hobby is to play online games,especially Maplestory. Do you like to play computer games? And which one?
Sincerely yours,
Taro, Class 814

Hi, Martin

Hello, Martin
I am a student in the San Min Senior High School. I'm 14 years old. I live in Taipei. Where do you live? I want to be your friend.
Henry Lee, class 802

Hello, Masataka

Hi, my name is Kevin Chen. I'm forteen years old. My dream is to be a basketball player. We're all okay.
Kevin, class802

Hello, Masataka

Hi, I am Eric Chen and I'm 14 years old. I know you want to be a voce actor. And I wish I can be a famous man someday.
Eric, class 802

Hello, Masataka

Hi, my name is Amy. I am from Taiwan. I am thirteen years old. I want to be a teacher because I like to teach many people. When I have no classes, I like to listen to music. Do you like to listen to music? I am looking forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely yours,
Amy, class 807

Hello, Masataka

Hello, my name is Vicky.
I am a student of San Min shenior high school. I am 14 years old. Our school is located in Taipei city. My hobby is playing the guitar. My dream is to be a tourist guide.
Yours,
Vicky
class 805

Japanese teacher Yoshie San

Hi, Sue

Thank you for concerning about us. Yes, I agree.
Preparedness is what we need.
By preparing, we can decrease the damage
from disasters.

Last year, my school students made a disaster safety map against Typhoon.
We found that all the trees near school and along the street are protected
by iron bars.

All the shops have strong shatters against wind and rain.
The city has the good facility for sewage.
We learned a lot by making the safety map.

Warmly
Yoshie
Sept. 18

A hello mail from Argentina

Welcome to Taiwanese member,
It is my pleassure to meet you Willy, Kevin, Ms Chang & Ms Su and I whish my best for all of you.
I enjoyed reading what Kevin said about Taiwan, he is enthusiastic.

Warmly
Paz Sergio Daniel, Argentina


A reply mail:
Dear Paz Sergio Daniel, Thank you for your warm welcome.This is the first time we received a mail from Argentina.We expect a furture cooperation with you in discussing how to prevent natural disasters.
Sue SuSan-Min Taipei

A hello letter to Japanese friends

Dear kiyoko and Masataka, Japan,

It's so nice to receive your mails. This is Cindy Chiu. I study in San-Min Senior High School and I am in 8 grade. I also like to watch spots, such as NBA, and MBL. My favorite baseball player is Mr. Wang, who comes from Taiwan, and he is in New York Yankee.
I hope we'll have a great time when we meet each other in Kaohsiung.

Sincerely,
Cindy Chiu
class 821

Thank you Mr. Tai, Abe and Yoshie

Dear Mr. Tai, Abe and Yoshie,

Thank you for the cordial welcomes to us. It's my pleasure to meet you in Kaohsiung in 2006 NDYS gathering. We had a wonderful time there with all the teachers and students and can't wait for the coming cooperation with you.

Tomorrow will be our first NDYS class this school year. Some key words about natural disasters will be introduced to them.

In fact, a terrible typhoon followed by floods just hit us and caused 5 people dead and great damage. Terrible! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7618946.stm

Sue

Greetings from Yoshie, Japan i*earn

Dear Su, Kate and Kevin and other students of San-Min,
Greetings from Yoshie.
I am so happy to have you in our project again.
The Photo is so nice and both of you are handsome.
Keep in touch!

Warmly,

Yoshie Naya: ndys@jearn.jp
Natural Disaster Youth Summit
http://ndys.jearn.jp/

Greetings from Abe, Trinidad and Tobago

Hi Kevin, Willy and your teachers Su and Ms Chang,

Who I know are friendly as all the people we met in Taiwan during our visit in 2006,

you and Willy are indeed cute.

We have many wonderful memories of the food, mountains, greenery, temples, trains, many bicycles, schools and most of all the people, looking forward to networking with all of you

Abe

Trinidad and Tobago

Greetings from Taipei San-Min, Taiwan, to NDYS partners

Dear friends,
We are so happy to join NDYS2009. This year we have 15 students and 2 teachers, the other is Miss Kate Chang.

The following short introduction is written by one of the students, Kevin.

Hi, teachers and friends,
I am Kevin Chen, a student in class 802, Taiwan. We are the junior high school students and we are all fourteen years old. My teacher is Miss Su. She is friendly.

We joined NDYS2008 last year and we sent our bear to Pakistan.

Taiwan is a beautiful country. If you come here, you can see many people and trees. Taiwanese foods are delicious. I like beef noodles best because it tastes a little bit sour and spicy. But Taiwan has more than beef noodles, I will tell you more next time because I have to go to cram school tonight.

We are so glad to be friends with you. Keep in touch.
Kevin
p.s. I am the cute boy on the left, the other one is my classmate Willy, and the bear and other presents are for Pakistan.

NDYS 2008 theme: global warming

How do I save the earth? How do I “cool” the earth?
1. I don’t eat imported food.
2. I use handkerchief, not tissue paper.
3. I take shower. I don’t take bubble tube bath.
4. I use my own cups. I don’t use paper cups of plastic cups.
5. I walk or ride my bike to school. I take MRT or buses.
6. I use my own chopsticks and bowl. I don’t use plastic bags.
7. I use brooms to clean my room. I don’t use vacuum cleaner.
8. I turn off the light, fans and my computer when I don’t use them.
9. I open the windows or electric fans. I don’t use air conditioner.
10. I turn off the faucet when I brush my teeth.
11. I walk up the stairs. I don’t take the elevator or the escalator.
12. I shop with my own bag. I don’t use plastic bag.
13. I gather used paper, glass, cans and bottles and then take it to the recycle places.

TN US Natural Disaster Project

Cross-posting for your reference:

Greetings Yosie and all involved with the NDYS project.

We have a late start for our project but we are now working on our emergency kit items to purchase, safety maps, and the assembly of our emergency kits for each of our 32 classrooms at our school of 643 students.

This is our peak Tornado season so we want to be prepared. We also sit on a fault line but it is not active. We have determined two safe areas for our school in the event of an earthquake and have identified several areas within the building that would be safe in the event of a torando. Some tornados hit Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, and Georgia yesterday. I spent today purchasing supplies for the kits. We will be making a trail mix using cereal, marshmallows, and raisins for each kit. In addition we will have $300. worth of bottled water delivered to the school for inclusion in the kits. We will also be putting in flashlights with batteries and some hand sanitizer. Our project was funded by a small grant from the Junior League of Chattanooga.

I have been taking some pictures and will be adding more later this week. Here is the website for you all to take a peak and keep checking back. We will be assembling our kits on April 18th. I purchased clear plastic backpacks to use for the kits. In addition, we will be making posters for the safe areas within the school.
Chris
Here are links: PPT website

Hello, Pakistan, a student's letter to you by Sandy Chien

Dear teacher, Naila and friends,

This is Sandy Chien, a 7th grade student of San-Min High School . I joined the “Teddy Bear” Project this March. I am so happy to have this chance to know friends from your beautiful country, Pakistan and exchange Bears with you.

I like to introduce our country a little bit. We have night markets almost in every city, and they are the places I love to go. Many interesting things are sold there, like foods, clothes, shoes, purses, toys and games.

I love to eat there, especially oyster omelets, sticky tofu and wheel pies. Oyster Omelets are oyster, eggs, vegetable and some sticky flour mixed together and then cooked. Sticky tofu isn’t dirty at all, but it has a special smell. Wheel Pies are sweet and delicious.
There are many fashionable and beautiful clothes, shoes and bags. Most of them are cheap, so I love to buy some there.
As for games, shooting balloons, catching fish with a small paper net, marble game and many other interesting games.

If you have the chance to visit us someday, I will be very glad to be your guide there. Waiting for your introduction to your beautiful country.

Your new friend
Sandy Chien and class 702

Take a look at the works by Indonesia

http://ndyssma1pdg.sampasite.com/

Hello, we are back to school from winter vacation.

Hi, dear Naila,
This is Sue Su and class 702.
It's been amost a month since our last mail. How have you been these days?
Today is our first day to school after a three-week summer vacation and our Chinese New Year in between.

We'd like to know how is the teddy bear project going there? Did you finish your Safty map yet? As for us, I just introduced them the project and some intenet information since we only had 13 hours for it. And for the coming semester this year, I am still working on it.

Hope you have a better progress than us.
Best wishes to you all.
Sue Su

Pakistan received our Isabear on Dec 18

Hi...
i am sure you would all be anxious to know about IsaBear.
so wanted to confirm that we received her and all her gifts yesterday just in time as my students have gone for their winter break from today.
we were all excited see all the things that is a brought with her.
infact one of our student has taken it home with her espeacially as our eid festival is on 21st december.
and of cource a Happy Christmas to you and your class in taiwan

from your freidns here in pakistan
naila:)

Pakistan Bear will come next February!!

hi...
We are looking forward to have Isa Bear with us. I also wanted to inform you that we are also having our mid term exams, and imediately after that we will go for our december holidays from 15 december and come back on 14 january. so we will send our teddy by the end of January.
Good luck to your students for their tests.

regards
naila

Isabear sent today!!!

Dear Naila and students,

We are so glad to tell you that today our IsaBear has already sent to you via air. We also prepared a welcome pack to you, which includes: students' intoduction, photos and surprise gifts for you.
We send them with all our heart and we hope you will like them. Please let us know how you feel as soon as you receive them.

We had got your questionnaire and we will try to answer them. But it will take a while because right now we are having a monthly test. Please wait.

Hope everything goes very well to you.

Best regards,
Sue Su and class 702

Our Isabear will be sent tomorrow!!

Miss Naila Khan and students, Learning Alliance

Tomorrow we will send you our Isabear along with our welcom pack.

The welcome pack includes:
1. IsaBear, in a traditional Chin Dynasty Princess clothes
2. Student's introduction to each other.
3. Photos
4. Gifts: snacks, sweets and our famous eggs.
5. Toys for fun: Children's play, an artifact from our National Palace Museum and puppets for fun.
6. Miss Su’s hello letter.

We send the above gifts with all our heart and we hope you will like them.
From: Sue Su & Class 702

A hello letter to Pakistan

Dear Miss Naila Khan and students,

My name is Sue Su. I am the homeroom teacher of class 702. I am also their English teacher. This year, we are so happy to have this opportunity to have you as our partner school and exchange Teddy Bear with you.

My students are all age 13, the 7th graders. They come to school from 7.30 to 5 pm, and eat lunch at school. Some like to play basketball after school. However, most of them will go to cram schools for further studying because the competition for senior high school is intense.

As for our school, San-Min High School is located in Taipei, Taiwan. We are a big school with 2500 students in junior high school and around 1000 students in senior high school. Most of our junior high school students live nearby this area and it’s a must that they have to come to school at this period (age 7 to 15), but senior high school students have to attend a joint examination, and be one of them only if they pass the exam.

We had got your questionnaire and we will try to answer them as soon as possible. But it will take a while because right now we are having a monthly test.
Hope everything goes very well to you.

Best regards,
Sue Su and class 702

Pakistan: We are ok.

Hi dear friends:
thanks for showing concern for us. everybody here is safe, we would try and
send more pictures to you. we here are also facinated about new friends at
Taiwan.
waiting for your pictures and your next reply
anns tahir

Ready to send IsaBear to Pakistan

Dear Naila, and class,
We are glad you are all safe and sound.
We are almost ready to send you our IsaBear as well as some gifts. Could you tell us your mailing address?
Also, we haven't seen any of your pictures. I don't know why?
Waiting for your reply.
Sue Su and Class702

How are you? Pakistan

Dear Naila,

Recently I introduce your county to my students. We visit your school website and your Ministry of tourism . We are so fascinated with your beautiful scenery, buildings and clothing.

Also, we learned from the news that your country is under a state of emergency. Are your students, teachers and school all safe? We are concerned for your safety. May you are all safe.

Sue Su and class 702
Nov. 5

Miss Naila and her students are our partner school.

Dear Kevin,

So good to hear from you. i and my class are really looking forward to this partnership of our schools and making new friends. you mentioned that you were junior high student.... over here we use grades level to indicate which level a student is in. like my students are in grade VIII, so would junior high be equal to grade VII or VIII.

i am trying to get some digital pictures of our school and my class. we would love to see more pictures of you guys as well..... my class has prepared a questionnaire for you all... they would be sending to you by tomorrow i think. do give my love and regards to your teacher Su and to rest of your friends..

till next time
regards
Naila.

Kevin say hello to you, Pakistan

Hi, Miss Naila Khan and friends,

I am Kevin Chen, a student in class 702, Taiwan.
We are the junior high school students and we are all thirteen years old.
Our teacher is Ms.Su. She is friendly. She's tall and has longhair. We like her very much.
Taiwan is a beautiful country. If you come here,you can see many peopleand trees. And Taiwanese foods are delicious. I like beef noodles best because it tastes a little bit sour and spicy. But Taiwan has more than beef noodles. I will tell you next time. Because I have to go to cram school tonight.

We are so glad to be friends with you. Keep in touch.
Kevin and class702
p.s. I am the cute boy on the left, and the other one is my classmate Willy.

Let's learn something about global warming, NDYS2008

Hi, Students of NDYS :

Do you thind Global Warming effect on natural disasters? If you studied or find any effects of Global Warming on natural disasters, Please reply this mail.

** Yoshie Naya Coordinator of NDYS ****