SWY 19 - Daily Schedule
The schedule on board is pretty demanding, describe one thing you loved and one thing you wish could be improved on. On any given day, our schedule would be jam-packed full of club activities, free discussion, sports and recreation, course discussions, seminars, workshops and everything in between. As such, one of the things I came to appreciate was the “grand bath.” The grand bath is a custom in Japanese culture whereby people, separated by genders of course, bathe together communally. This offered a prime opportunity each day to relax and decompress, while partaking in meaningful conversations with other PY’s who were also enjoying the grand bath. Amidst the demands and the structure of the scheduled SWY19 program, I often wished that more free-time was available to participants. In and of itself “free-time” is a deceiving term because rarely would we be “free” to do absolutely nothing. In fact, free-time was filled with a number of different voluntary activities including such things as wadaiko drumming, Japanese calligraphy, Fijian basket weaving, capoeira, seminars on traveling, the United Nations and human rights, and of course, a whole host of movies playing in the Theatre. - Monica Yeung, SWY19 |
