Photographer's Note
Un petit souvenir amusant d’une visite dans un collège-lycée privé de Miyazaki. Grâce à un concours de circonstances, un enseignant a pu me faire une visite privée des locaux. Étant du métier, cela avait évidemment son lot d’intérêt.
Sinon, je me souviens qu’il n’était pas facile de circuler discrètement dans les couloirs (immaculés les couloirs). Les murs des classes ayant de larges fenêtres pour voir ce qu’il s’y passe, les élèves sont évidemment tentés d’y jeter un coup d’œil au moindre passage. Et lorsque c’est un « gaijin » habillé façon touriste, avec femme, bébé et Nikon à la main, évidemment cela déconcentre un peu plus que de coutume (surtout lorsque l’on est à quelques jours des vacances d’été).
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A little funny memory during a visit in a private secondary school of Miyazaki. Thanks to a combination of circumstances, a teacher could make for me a private visit of the building. As I am myself a teacher, it was of course interesting for me.
I remember that it wasn’t easy to walk discreetly in the corridors (very clean the corridors). The walls of the classrooms have indeed large windows so that the students have the tentation to look at the corridors each time someone is passing by. And when it’s a “gaijin”, dressed in a touristic way, with wife, baby and of course Nikon in the hand, it’s obviously difficult to keep the concentration.
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Furachan
(0) 2007-02-09 23:58
Salut Olivier!
Pas mal ca, surtouut avec ton cadrage c'est bien vu, bien gere. remaerque, c7est une situation qui m'est tres familere alors tout de suite je sympathise.
Alors ca va, toi (ca fait longtemps...)
Amicalement,
Francis
Brendon
(289) 2007-02-10 1:15
Hello Olivier
It appears to be a very sterile environment, the clean white pressed shirts, the lack of minute graffiti/names and who loves who on the walls (as per my high school) to the shimmer of the desks. I must say that the education system here is vastly different to that of western society.
As I have been in several large JH/HS's, the prospect of a "gaijin" in the halls often does wreaks havoc.
B/W appears to be a good choice for this caption, indeed very humorous.
TFS
Brendon
startacked
(1395) 2007-02-13 15:45
Hi Olivier,
Lucky you! The inside of a school is something little foreigners will ever see. I would be interested for sure. Just walking around, wondering how your childhood would be like being a student there. My last trip was to the Middle-East and were driving by the university of Bahrain. We drove back, just walked in and had a look. It was so interesting and inspiring. School is an important part of your life and you just want to see how that time is spent around the world. TFS, Gilbert
Photo Information
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Copyright: Oliver Ca (Olrik)
(1645)
- Genre: People
- Medium: Black & White
- Date Taken: 2006-07-20
- Categories: Daily Life, Humorous
- Camera: Nikon D70, Nikkor AF-S 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5G ED-IF
- Exposure: f/3.5, 1/250 seconds
- More Photo Info: view
- Photo Version: Original Version
- Theme(s): Jeunesse Japonaise / Japanese Youth, Smiles from Japan - Sourires du Japon [view contributor(s)]
- Date Submitted: 2007-02-09 18:19
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