“夏期休暇中に英国で行われたUCL-Japan Youth Challenge 2023に本校からも４名の生徒が参加しました。参加生徒の研修報告書を日本語と英語でご紹介します。

I took part in the UCL Japan Youth Challenge 2023 this summer. In this programme, selected high school students from schools in Japan and the UK take part in a variety of activities around an annual theme “Resilience”, with the aim of finding their own answers.

I participated in this program because I wanted to test myself to see what and how I could present myself in the company of high-achieving students. As it turned out, the answer to this motive was unsatisfactory. Looking back, I have more regrets than achievements. However, I am sure that what I gained during these ten days was an irreplaceable memory for me and a major turning point in my life from now on.

 

The first two days were held at our school. Therefore the Rikkyo students played the role of hosts to the participants and other people involved. I was a little anxious about fulfilling the dual roles of host and participant during these two days, which were a period of getting to know each other and the people we would be working with over the next ten days. However, I think I was able to deepen my friendship with my fellow students through the team games of dodgeball and football held in the gymnasium and the conversations we had during meals.

After finishing my stay at Rikkyo, I stayed at Cambridge and UCL in that order. I felt privileged to have had the opportunity to live and study at two of the greatest universities the world has ever heard of, which has become such nice memories in my life.

At Cambridge, the table tennis we all played together after dinner was memorable. When the programme had only started a few days earlier, I was casually playing table tennis in a communal area with some good Japanese friends. Gradually, more and more people gathered and I realised that I had become friends with friends I had never spoken to before. I had been worried that I could only talk to certain friends for a few days, but through this opportunity I was able to make British as well as Japanese friends. The casual moments outside of lectures are some of my favourite memories.　https://www.rikkyo.co.uk/new/latestnews/ucl-japan-youth-challenge-3-2023/