Started in 1990, the Mitsubishi Asian Children’s Enikki Festa is a program that seeks to promote literacy education and to stimulate cultural exchange among children by allowing them to learn about each other through “enikki ”(illustrated diaries).
■ http://www.mitsubishi.com/mpac/e/activity/enikki/index.html
Ama Anuththara
Wickramaarachchi
Age: 12, Girl
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
The time for final exams at our school was approaching, but I didn’t feel like studying, and I started playing with my dolls. My mother got angry when she saw that and threw one of my dolls into a bush outside the window. That made me sad, and I started to cry. Mother then felt sorry for me.
Tsukasa Ebisawa
Age: 9, Boy
Japan
Saturday October 9
All of us at robot school demonstrated the robots that we had made. I made a crane robot. I programmed it with a computer. It goes from the start line to the target and lowers its load onto the point levels. Then, it comes back to the start line to finish. I made a programming mistake on the day of the demonstrations and set the time one second too short for coming back to the start line. So my robot stopped right in front of the line, and I didn’t get any points. I was really disgusted.
    *The Enikki entry above, when necessary, has been translated into English from the language they were originally written in.
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