I worked at 2 public high schools in Perth, Western Australia. One of them is located about 10 minutes by train from the city and the other is located about 45 minutes out of the city. Both high schools have over 1,000 students and about 250 students studying Japanese.Yr8 and Yr9 students have to learn a foreign language and can choose from Japanese, French and German. Yr10-12 students can elect Japanese if they want to continue to study it. Many students like Japanese animation, cartoons, movies, food, sports (Karate, Kendo, Judo), culture etc. The students are very friendly and lovely!! But it is also true, some students don’t want to learn a language. School starts from 8:50 and I participated in 4-5 lessons every day. A lesson is 50-60 minutes. My work is to assist the teacher and students in the classroom with tasks such as, practicing speaking with students, introducing Japanese culture and activities, model speech in class and interviewing for oral assessments. This aspect of the assessment process is very important for the students’ final examination preparation, as it is consistent with their final exam whereby students are interviewed by a native Japanese speaker and a second examiner makes notes. In this instance, the classroom teachers I worked with made notes about the student’s responses. I was also often responsible for checking grammar for quizzes, assessments and prints, marking quizzes and assessments, making questions and answers and communicating with students. From this experience, I now understand Japanese language education in school and the education system in Australia. It is different from Japanese language institutes where I’ve worked before. (e.g; curriculum, text and the teaching method of grammar) So this experience has been a really good opportunity for me to learn new methods of teaching Japanese to students. I could assist Australian Japanese teachers and students as a native Japanese speaker. I think that it has also been a good opportunity for me as a Young Japanese Teacher and students to interact, to share ideas, knowledge and language. I really enjoyed my school life in both schools, so I was really sad to say good-bye to students when I left. Also I’ve had the opportunity to participate in some seminars and workshops, which were really good for me to learn more.