International Leadership Course: Australian Home-stay Program

In the second term of their second year in the ILC, the ILC students will spend six weeks in Australia . The purpose of this is to improve their English speaking and listening skills, get them accustomed to living in a foreign culture, and to give them practical experience using the thinking and communication skills they have already learned. The program starts with a four-day camping trip in the wild near Mount Warning in New South Wales. For most of the students, this is quite an adventure because they have never been camping before.

The next phase of the program is a six-week home-stay with an Australian family, accompanied by attending intensive English classes at Trinity Lutheran College, our sister high school. The families the students stay with usually have children who also attend Trinity and are about the same age as our students. This allows our students to begin their home-stay program with an easily made friend, companion, and guide.

The educational program in Australia , while speaking oriented, is still aimed at accomplishing specific goals and completing specific tasks. Many of the activities are also designed to require close cooperation between the student and the host-family. Included in this six-week program are various short trips to scenic/educational locations in the vicinity, and a pre-school/elementary school cultural exchange program in which our students teach classes of young Australians a little bit about Japan. The entire six-week program is an invaluable educational experience and an unforgettable adventure for our students. It becomes one of their best memories and a prime motivation to continue striving to achieve the goals of the International Course.

At the top of Gully Hill	Camping

4G at the Bay of Islands National Park

Kashiwa Dance in Australia

A student with her host-mother

Making a presentation in Australia

BeachO	Camp