{"id":4056,"date":"2016-04-21T19:04:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T10:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/?p=4056"},"modified":"2016-04-21T19:04:06","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T10:04:06","slug":"kodo-apprentice-centre-welcomes-the-35th-intake-class-by-michiko-chida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/staff\/20160421_4056.html","title":{"rendered":"“Kodo Apprentice Centre Welcomes the 35th Intake Class” by Michiko Chida"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Apr. 9, 2016<\/p>\n

Kodo Apprentice Centre Welcomes the 35th Intake Class<\/h2>\n

On Apr. 4, the new first-year apprentices arrived on Sado Island. This year we welcomed ten\u00a0new apprentices from Japan (Niigata, Nagano, Tokyo, Kagawa, Okinawa), the USA, and Norway.<\/p>\n

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The 35th Intake class meets at the bus stop in Kakinoura<\/p><\/div>\n

On their first day on Sado, each year our new apprentices meet\u00a0at the bus stop in Kakinoura and walk the 1.2 km up the mountain road to the Apprentice Centre. As they climb the hill, step by step, they have time to think about their family and friends back home who sent them off with messages of support, and to think about their own reasons for coming here. From the next day, this route will be a slope that they run up on their daily training for the next two years.<\/p>\n

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Welcome performance by the second-year apprentices<\/p><\/div>\n

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The new apprentices greet the members of Kodo, Kodo Cultural Foundation, president of Kitamaesen Co., Ltd., and their instructors at the Entrance Ceremony.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\nTwo days later, the new apprentices all nervously introduced themselves to all the Kodo members and staff at Kodo Village. Then everyone got straight into a forest working bee together and the new apprentices\u00a0all received warm words of welcome and encouragement from the whole Kodo group.<\/p>\n

Today is their fifth day at the Centre and as\u00a0they encounter new things everyday, I can already see they are off to a good start working as a team. I hope that each one of them keeps in mind all the people who are cheering them on as they strive towards their goals, and that they remember how happy they were to be selected to come here. I hope they will tackle their apprentice lifestyle with all their might and that each and every one of the new apprentices broadens their horizons and possibilities during the course of the year ahead.<\/p>\n

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Apr. 9, 2016 Kodo Apprentice Centre Welcomes the 35th Intake Class On Apr. 4, the new first-year apprentices arrived on Sado Island. This year we welcomed ten\u00a0new apprentices from Japan (Niigata, Nagano, Tokyo, Kagawa, Okinawa), the USA, and Norway. On their first day on Sado, each year our new apprentices meet\u00a0at the bus stop in Kakinoura and walk the 1.2 km up the mountain road to the Apprentice Centre. As they climb the hill, step by step, they have time to think about their family and friends back home who sent them off with messages of support, and to think about their own reasons for coming here. From the next … \u25b6\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[48,95,23,53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4056"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4065,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056\/revisions\/4065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}