Three guides from the Wakayama Local Guide Association guided Naga High School students for an exchange workshop.
This was the first time for our association to guide the students, and it was very easy to do so because the students were very friendly.
Five foreign students studying at a university in Kyoto joined this time, and for the first time in a long time, we were able to have a lively conversation.
I regret that I could not explain enough due to the time schedule, but I am relieved that they still enjoyed the tour and, most importantly, that everyone was able to walk safely.
Perhaps it is a characteristic of Japanese people, but I was not able to speak much English with the students, perhaps because they were hesitant to speak their own English.
I thought it would have been better if they had spoken English more and more without fear, even if they made mistakes.
At the end of the tour, each group leader gave a thank-you speech in English to the guide.
It was very good because it was in beautiful English and was put together in an easy-to-understand manner.
It was a moment that made me think, “I am glad to have been a guide”.
There are many things I would like to say about the travel agency that arranged this trip, but since I enjoyed myself today, I won’t.
