9月9号上午，高三10班全体同学身着校服参加了庄严而隆重的APU预科班开班仪式。

夏谷鸣副校长、沈镛龙主任以及APU校方近藤教授莅临此次仪式。首先夏校长就“需要做什么”、“应该做什么”、“如何践行”，针对留学日本的种种挑战以及各种机遇，高层建瓴地分享了许多宝贵的经验，同学们也通过夏校长实际而深刻的演说对自己今后的目标有了更明确的认识。同学们全神贯注地倾听并思考着夏校长提出的一条条建议。

随后，近藤教授带给我们热情洋溢的演讲。简短的演讲却提炼出了APU留学生活的主要内容。“不一定总是快乐的，但是一定是令人兴奋的。”这是他对一年后我们留学生活的总结，也为同学们注入一剂强心剂，满怀憧憬地迎接未来生活。

仪式第三项是夏颖同学和郭垚同学的发言。流利的英语，自信的演讲，对未来合理的规划，都展现出了杭外学子的独有风采。

这次开班仪式无疑对每个APU学生都是一堂生动而意义非凡的人生课。相信每个同学从此都会对APU以及日本留学生活有了更清晰的认识，也会制定更详尽的计划并朝着自己心中的梦想不断向前。

（高三10班 吴家晖 报道）

开班仪式结束后，近藤教授为我们奉献了一场精彩的讲座。在讲座的过程中，他充分让我们大家体会到了APU的教学模式和教学理念。完全结合中西方的优势，上课和同学们生动有趣的互动比起传统的光说不练式讲座又多了一种感觉。教授从我们2025年的工作打算开始引出了APU的教学模式，自己思考构思，同学分组探讨，组员总结讨论结果，课堂交流。在我们讨论过程中，他始终微笑的看着我们，默默地聆听并给予许多有用的建议。这完全不是1+1大于2的学习，比起老师传授自己的知识更易于我们接受。接着，教授引入了一个全球化的大概念问题，当时我有一丝困惑，这个话题对于现在的我们来说不是太大了点吗？教授解释道，在当今全球化快速发展的今天，我们不拓宽自身的知识面就很难在如此高竞争的社会中生存。引入APU，它正是为我们提供了这样一个国际化的平台，接触世界各地的朋友，了解不同地方的文化，所以我们需好好利用这样一个平台，比国内的同学更早一步的迈开全球化的一步，比国内的同学更快地适应社会的节奏。

接近尾声，教授表达了他对APU同学的衷心祝愿和对我们的热烈欢迎。他脸上的微笑从始至终，让我们感到了对我们同学的亲切，让我们大家都感觉意犹未尽。

（侯越峰 报道）

● 学生代表讲话稿

Hello, everyone.

I am delighted to take this opportunity to express my great honor and pleasure to meet Pro. Kondo from Japan and gave us his speech today. After several days of adjustment, a new page of our life has already turned. Actually our life is always mingled with anxiety and confusion just like we are feeling now. We drag a second, a minute, an hour into the shallow shadow of a day, a month, a year and finally these seemingly instantaneous points become our long, long life. Though hard, our mind is still filled with ever-increasing faith and hope.

For this semester, as the students of APU, we will have fewer burdens of other subjects and focus mainly on Japanese and English learning. We have been given as much freedom as we ought to deserve and it is high time we should set up a plan about how hardworking we can be to realize our life goals, or what kind of abilities we are going to learn as qualified APU students, and start fulfilling it. Here are some my personal opinions about what kind of qualities are needed to lead our future studying.

The first is interest. You may know the famous Germany artist, Menzel, who was considered one of the two most prominent German artists of the 19th century. He had done a great many excellent works and exerted enormous influence on posterity. One day, people found him sitting near a filth gutter with countless annoying bugs flying all around and disagreeable odor that made everybody want to vomit. Not until they took a closer look did they realize that he was drawing a discarded dirty shoe with all his attention and total ignorance of the disgusting surroundings. People said he was caught in a “painting fever disease” but he was rather it didn’t be cured at all. There’s a joke. When I first learned the word “truth”, I often wondered whether it is a countable noun or an uncountable noun. But soon afterwards I was clearer than anyone else. Because Conan said “truth, only one”! You see, study can be really fun. So don’t take our study as a sort of responsibility but your own interest, through which we can learn the spiritual emancipation and also this individual joyful study can help us control the impact and privileges on the society after we work. A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

The second is determination. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. The widely spreaded story is the hard procedure of extracting radium by Marie curie. But what most of us do not know is that she was extremely industrious when she was at the college. Because at that time Poland was in hot water, she came to France to continue her education. The patriotism only allowed her to improve but never degrade. The professor’s humorous way of speaking French with lots of slang words was a pleasure to others but a hindrance to Marie curie. She spent all her time overcoming the language barrier and catching up with the classes. She was hit by innutrition, poverty and solitude but never gave up. It is her determination that won her the Nobel Prize, made her success. Remember the words from the Shawshank redemption? Get busy living, or get busy dying. So simply be straight forward and keep on purchasing your destinations.

The third is an open mind. With today’s accelerating globalization and the rapid development of technology, we also suffer the by-products of modern era. Our take-home money is getting less while the inflation and economic stagnation are going into a vicious cycle. The world’s matter is our matter; the world’s responsibility is our responsibility. To coordinate with people from other countries and districts, we need an open mind and tolerance while we are in trouble or misunderstood by people. Entering APU will provide a broad platform of interaction with different voices. Because we are the creatures of highly connected society, we have the duties to devote ourselves to make it more harmonious. This is how we need the cooperation.

The weakness of attitude will become the weakness of characters. And character is the thing that defines our destiny. Interest, determination and an open mind are the three things I consider to be the most important in the future studying. I hope, more or less, it will give you some extra advice to help you reach your success to some extent. And trust me, whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Thank you all!

（夏颖）

Good morning everyone. I really appreciate having the chance to give you a speech today.

Today I’m going to talk about something that we should do in the last year here.

As we know the upcoming school year is really important to those students who are going to participate in the national college entrance examination. It’s also important to us for there’re a lot of works and challenges ahead.

We are already accepted by APU, to some extent we’re lucky, because we don’t have to be under such great pressure. So some people may consider that we can relax, and just have fun in the next two semesters. (Of course I'd rather believe no one has this idea in our class.) This kind of idea is horrible I think, it will make us lazy, and constantly we will regard it as a matter of course, just like the old saying goes habit is a terrible thing.

So today I want to give you, of course, including myself some suggestions to stay true to ourselves.

First, learning Japanese is our primary task, it is one of the major requirements for us to live and study in Japan later time. Next, since we've been enrolled in APU, our curriculum seems slimmer, so my advice is that we could do some preview or read relevant books and other materials about the subjects you want to study in APU later. Fortune only favors the prepared minds, so I think the coming school year is the most appropriate time for us to do this work in advance. Meanwhile, I think we’d better get to know about the local culture, such as social etiquette and traditions. This plays a vital role in socializing with local people. It can also help you academically by keeping you free from cultural shock.

At last, I’d like to go back to the question of habit, as I've mentioned a bad habit can be a disaster. On the contrary a good habit will assist you to tackle the tasks with double efficiency. We’re good, so we want to be better. But everyone knows that nobody’s perfect. Indeed we have some shortcomings, so I hope everyone can develop good habit and manner to perfect ourselves in the coming school year.

Whatever you did, whoever you were, from now on, you’re and we’re all brand new, we have chosen APU, we have a clear direction. Why don’t we regard it as the end of past, and a beginning of future?

It’s the time to overcome your weakness; it’s the time to conquer the peak that you've never reached; it’s the time to start your first step; it’s the time to rebirth; it’s the time to fight for your dream seriously. Be tough, and we will be what we want to be.

Thank you!

（郭垚）