College's Most Meritorious Worker
One day, a friend of mine said this to me, “Being a shidouin is an honour thing to do.” W-wait a minute What is shidouin , Shane? What does a shidouin do, Shane? Why being a shidouin is an honour thing to do, Shane? Okay, I will tell you everything I know, my dear readers. Based on jisho.org , 指導員 (read: shidouin ) means instructor; advisor; adviser. Like a teacher or a lecturer, a shidouin also teaches a certain subject, but he/she also gives a certain training/seminar to his/her students. In my place, Japanese Literature major, Padjadjaran University, shidouin s teach how to write hiragana and katakana beautifully–since the lecturers in my place are really hate when seeing bad hand-writings–how to do aisatsu in front of senpai s, and more to the freshmen. They also introduce them to some popular Japan cultures and sing a Japanese children song together. Fun fact, these shidouin s are the 2 nd and 3 rd year senpai s. I remembered when I was a...