December 17, 2015
Melissa's Museum expedition post
Melissa here!
On Wednesday December 9th the International department went on a trip to the National Museum of Nature and Science in Ueno.
As I am studying Japanese History and Geography the trip related nicely to those two subjects with sections of the museum regarding the history of the Japanese people and sections on earthquakes.
The trip had a really nice atmosphere with 4 teachers and 6 students so there were lots of new friendships and memories formed!
My favourite part of the trip was the show we went to see. Inside the museum there was a giant globe which you could go inside. Inside there was a thin floating platform in the middle of the globe which the people watching the show would stand on. A video was then projected on the walls of the dome making you feel like you were really a part of the movie. The first part of the movie was about dinosaurs and was really realistic so you can imagine that it was pretty scary!
After that we also had a talk about earthquakes and watched a screen showing where earthquakes were occurring at that moment it Japan. A few of us stayed even longer at the museum in order to see the dome projection show again because it was so good!
Then we took purikura and I did some Christmas shopping! Even though it was in the middle of test week it was a really fun trip and I am definitely going to visit some more museums in Tokyo now (especially as most of them are free if you are a high school student!)