As one part of the Hawaii-Nanzan Short Exchange Program, we made a radio program for a Hawaiian radio station, KZOO, all in English. It was a great opportunity for us to do a radio program in Hawaii because one of our GP goals is to express ourselves in English effectively! When I heard that we could make a radio program, I was so excited! I thought an opportunity like this wouldn’t come again, so I really thought about the content of the program very seriously. We decided to talk about the Tohoku earthquake and the present trend in Nagoya, but the preparation for the program was harder than I had expected. We had to think about time schedule, the natural flow of each section, make scripts for each section, practice for the recordings and so on. The most interesting and unique attempt was to make original music for this radio program. One of our professors wrote original music for us, and all people who made this radio program played the songs. I really enjoyed recording these songs! The hardest thing was editing. We needed to finish our radio program in 30 minutes, so we edited many parts of it. It took a long time to complete our radio program. We were interviewed in Japanese by a DJ from the radio station before our radio program was put on the air. I was so nervous before the radio program started, but I really enjoyed it. I am satisfied with this radio program because we could express our thoughts from the point of view of Nanzan students in English. And I also think that I learned how difficult it was to organize my thinking and tell my thoughts in English plainly. Though it was hard to complete the radio show, my motivation for improving my English got stronger than before. I want to be a person who can tell my thoughts clearly.

by Shizuka K