HELLO Village Week II Day5 Part 2

　HELLO Village Week II の最終日放課後はクリスカップスピーチコンテストが行われ、１年生９名、２年生９名，留学生３名が参加し、英語（留学生は日本語）のスピーチを披露しました。美しい発音やアクセントで話せるよう練習を重ね、話し方や身振り手振りにも表現が込められた素晴らしいスピーチに対して、集まった生徒たちから惜しみない拍手が送られていました。
　内容は自分の好きなこと、学校活動、幸福，自分の宝物など多岐に渡っています。どれも大変説得力があり、頷いたり、時には涙を誘われたり、ユーモアに笑わされたりと、どのスピーチにもそれぞれの良さがあり、個性が出ていて、心を動かされました。母語ではない英語（留学生は日本語）で文章を考え、練習し、そして人前で披露することは大変難しく，勇気がいることですが，一人一人が英語村の舞台でそれを立派にやり遂げたことを誇りに思います。
　今回のHELLO Village Week のテーマは『Identity: What Makes You Unique?』でした。この言葉にはHELLO Village Week中の様々なイベントに参加することで自分について理解を深め、自分をよりよく表現してほしいという思いが込められていました。思っていたよりもうまく表現できなかったなど残念な気持ちもあるかもしれませんが、それも含めて今日はそれぞれが果敢にもスピーチに挑戦してくれたことを嬉しく思います。

コンテスト結果
１年の部
１位　寺田　弥稜「My Treasure」
２位　澤田　祐芽「Welcome to Yume's World」
３位　若井　真青空「Is That True?」
特別賞　森田　琉心「My Experience In Tsunocho」
２年の部
１位　木原　琉翔「Marked For Death」
２位　番留　よしきこうじ「The Mandela Effect」
３位　渡邊　栞「Splendor of World Heritage Sites」
特別賞　野木　隼「The School Rule」

　On Nov. 22nd, as the final event of HELLO Village Week II, 8th KRIS CUP English Speech Contest was held at HELLO Village. We had 9 first-graders, 9 second-graders, and 3 exchange students as participants this time. We were amazed by their expressive speeches because we could tell how much efforts they made for their great speeches. The themes of the speeches were from what they like, school activities, happiness, to their treasures. All the speeches effectively expressed their ideas, thoughts, and feelings. The audience laughed by their humor and was moved by their stories. It is quite tough to think in non-native languages and make a speech in public, but we are proud of our students who did it well at the stage of HELLO Village.
　We have ‘Identity: What Makes You Unique?’ as the theme of HELLO Village Week II. We chose this word because we want students to get a better and deeper understanding about themselves and express what they are by interacting with other students and people with different backgrounds during this week. In their challenge, some students might think ‘I could have expressed myself better’, but that’s okay. We are really glad that they courageously challenged themselves by making a speech in KRIS CUP.

Results:
The First-Grade
Gold Prize: Mikado Terada ‘My Treasure’
Silver Prize: Yume Sawada ‘Welcome To Yume's World’
Bronze Prize: Mark Wakai ‘Is That True?’
Special Prize: Riko Morita ‘My Experience In Tsunocho’

The Second-Grade
Gold Prize: Ryuto Kihara ‘Marked For Death’
Silver Prize: Yoshikikoji Bantome ‘The Mandela Effect’
Bronze Prize: Shiori Watanabe ‘Splendor of World Heritage Sites’
Special Prize: Hayato Nogi ‘The School Rule’