BIR Summer Program about the 2016 Olympics

Do you like the Olympics? How much do you know about it?
Every time the Olympics take place around the world, I enjoy watching the Olympics and I am excited and impressed by athletes’ incredibly high physical abilities and a number of impressive unforgettable events achieved by gifted athletes. But I didn’t know about how the host city is chosen and didn’t even think about it before starting to attend BIR Summer Program about the 2016 Olympics. Luckily, I live in Chicago currently and had a great opportunity to visit some of prospective venues of the 2016 Olympics in the event that Chicago was chosen as a host city of the 2016 Olympics on our field trip. In our class room, I discussed various pros and cons on four candidate cities, Chicago, Tokyo, Madrid, and Rio de Janeiro, including the infrastructure, the financial matter, and the environmental conditions with my group partner, Endi and Ravi. Also, by exchanging opinions with them, I learned more about many standout Olympic moments achieved by athletes from other countries except Japan. That was a wonderful experience to me.

It was a shame that I had to leave Chicago for work in the midst of the BIR Summer Program, but with my teacher Lori’s help I could be a member of BIR TITANS to keep posting from Japan every week and I am grateful to her for what she did for me. I have been busy with work since I went back to Japan for work, and frankly speaking, it was tough to make time to post a blog by the deadline every week. But, on the other hand, it was challenging to write my opinions about the 2016 Olympics to keep up my English writing skill and posing a blog and reading my group partners’ blogs on BIR TITANS made me feel as if I were still learning in my classroom in Chicago. Also, I was motivated by reading my partners’ opinions and how wonderful their blog work was. In my situation, I couldn’t join the group discussion and the group work, but instead of them, I took advantage of the media in Japan. I always tried to find news and articles about the 2016 Olympics from the newspaper and on TV, which were good sources to give me new information and help me put together my thoughts. This is how I could do my blog work from Japan.

To me, the Summer program about the 2016 Olympics was intriguing and challenging. Although I am originally from Tokyo, Japan, but I hope Chicago will be chosen as a host city of the 2016 Olympics finally and I can be one of the witnesses of the 2016 Chicago Olympics because I am very attracted by the Windy City and I love this city.

Lastly, I would like to thank my teacher Lori and the BIR administration to give me such a wonderful opportunity to join the Summer program after I left Chicago.