The SGH Study Trip to Kyoto University is now in its second day. At 7am the students woke up and had breakfast. Some male students ate many helpings of rice. Everyone was looking forward to the group work which will start from today. The student who was absent yesterday finally joined us, so all of 55 students were together.
First, Professor Kobayashi, who is the Head of the Department of Business Administration at Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Management, Kyoto, gave a lecture. He taught the students how to make a business plan, which is the main goal of this trip, and some business terms. The Business Model Canvas that they used seemed to be difficult to use at first glance. 
Professor Kobayasi also introduced TA who were not present yesterday, so the students introduced their themes again. After meeting the new TAs, the students split into their groups and went into different rooms to start their projects at last.
After the lunch break, Mr. Murakami, who is a Himeji Nishi High School alumni visited us after hearing about our SGH activities. He gave them detailed advice on how to study in high school and so on.
In their groups, the students began working on making a Business Model Canvas. Some groups easily began to make the plan they imagined, but others struggled to start. Today, many groups were able to complete one-third of their canvas.
The students ate both lunch and dinner in the cafeteria. We want to try a well-balanced diet. Incidentally, a meal set was \461. The meals in university are very reasonably priced.
At the end of the day each group announced how much progress they had made to each other. However, all groups’ explanations were abstract, so the other groups’ members regrettably 
couldn’t understand them well. The students were advised “to make their reports more concrete” tomorrow.
The students have now finished one-third of the study trip. They have only just begun, but all groups are doing their best on their projects. They have until this Saturday to make their business model canvases more concrete.
