First Terena described the culture shock she experienced as a 25 year old EFL student living outside Tokyo but Terenas students were friendly, helping her to decorate her flat with strings of coloured Origami cubes.

She then told us Sadako's story which they had told her: The crane is a good luck symbol for the Japanese, so if you could make 1000 origami cranes you could make a wish.

When the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945 Sadako was only two years old and only a mile away. She survived but soon fell ill of leukaemia as a result of the radiation.

Remembering the old tale she started to make origami cranes, reaching 644 before she died. But her friends made the rest - all buried with her in the Hiroshima Peace Park.

Amid much laughter and with Terena's advice we copied the paper folds using the coloured squares she provided.

Everyone produced a crane!

Next we braved the production of a coloured origami cube by weaving the six inserts together. Success again!

The competition for the best Acrostic Poem using the word origami was won by Debbie.