Finally on Monday of September fifth, the day to broadcast our program came. We got up early and went to the radio station with our hearts excitedly beating. While in the taxi going to the station, we went over notes, about what we would talk about in the first few minutes before our program many times. Although the room we used was much smaller than I expected, I felt rather comfortable with it. We heard familiar voices from the studio soon after we arrived. To our surprise, it was the commercial which we made to advertise our own program. That was the first moment when we realized that we were in a radio station that would send our own voices to the world. However, we experienced a difficulty in airing as well as in the process of making the program in Japan. For us, Nanzan students, the most difficult thing was not only speaking in English, but also speaking while being conscious of the listeners of the radio. We couldn’t understand speaking with thinking about listeners until the radio personality told us that she had got the phone call from one of the listeners who graduated from the Nanzan University years ago told her he was really looking forward to listening to our program. Therefore, thanks to that story, we could actually feel the existence of listeners, and rethink why we created this radio program. All in all, we enjoyed broadcasting our message through this radio program.

by Mari K.