UISG MYP Special Features Personal Project Showcase 2015 | Page 6

Haruka Iwagaki
My name is Haruka Iwagaki. I was born in Japan and I also spent my childhood there. Back then, I was a part of the Japanese drums club when I was
in junior high school. I love the sound of the Japanese drums. The sound is
very powerful. I wanted to know more about them, so that I can tell the people how good it is and also to gather information about their traditions in Japan. So for my Personal Project, I decided to research about it and to put
my product into a suitable context. I made a picture book where one can
find information about Japanese drums on the first and second pages.
Then I added information about Hachijo daiko, Miyake daiko, Chichibuyataibayashi and Oshimagojinka daiko.

Woo Seok Choi
My name is Wooseok and I am from Korea. For my Personal project I have
made a kind of school official song. I haven’t created the song itself, I made
their musical sheets. The reason why I made the song is because I always
wondered why our school doesn’t one. All of my previous schools had their
own song representing their diversities and identities. There are several
things that I would like to recommend to year 9 students. Firstly, based on
my experience, it is best option to select the topic that you are actually interested in. That makes you keep active, interested and passionate for entire personal project procedures. Second, It is better to keep working with
process journals during holidays. As there are lots of homework and assignments, it is kind of hard to handle all of them sometimes.

Jihwan Min
Hello, my name is Jihwan Min. I am from Korea and I live in China,
Dongguan for one year and a half now with my family. My hobbies are playing the guitar, listening music, and watching football on TV. But playing guitar is the best hobby in my life. I played for three years three different types
of guitar (acoustic, electric, bass). I had very good experience ́