Prossie high school student Tokyo bound
ONE high-performing Proserpine High School student is off to Tokyo for 12 days.
So what is Karrah-Lea Vinnicombe most excited about doing when she arrives in the Japanese capital?
The Year 10 student didn't have to think long before saying riding the Tokyo underground train system.
Karrah-Lea is one of 15 Queensland students selected to attend the Tokyo study tour, where she will experience Japanese school life and be given the opportunity to visit places of cultural and historical interest.
Karrah-Lea has been studying Japanese through a virtual classroom for five years and said she was looking forward to engaging in Japanese conversation.
She will be staying with two different home-stay families and was excited to be meeting with a well-known politician.
Rather than feeling apprehension at visiting one of the biggest cities in Asia, Karrah-Lea said: "Mostly it hasn't registered yet, I am more in the shock of, 'Oh my God, I am going.' I think next week the anxiousness is going to pop up”.
Nicole Jolley, on behalf of Proserpine High School, said it was a great opportunity.
"From a little place like Prossie and you get to be one of 15 in the state that is travelling to Tokyo, it's amazing,” she said.
