tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81568945238436986652024-03-19T05:03:05.575-07:00Shinjuku Heiwa Japanese Language SchoolSHJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12666029869725665144noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156894523843698665.post-37469662354649278552012-02-17T03:50:00.000-08:002012-02-17T03:50:47.078-08:00Ehoh-maki and FukuwaraiWe held an event on Feb 10th.<br />
We made 'Ehoh-maki'which is a special rolled sushi in dried laver seaweed we eat on Setsubun,Feb 3rd.<br />
We also played 'Fukuwarai'.<br />
It is one of traditional games we play in new year.<br />
We didn't have time to play it in the last-month event,so I decided to enjoy the game with our students this time instead.<br />
<a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/02/15/dscf0029.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Dscf0029" border="0" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/02/15/dscf0029.jpg" title="Dscf0029" width="200px" /></a> <a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/02/15/dscf0031.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Dscf0031" border="0" height="107px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/02/15/dscf0031.jpg" style="height: 107px; width: 145px;" title="Dscf0031" width="145px" /></a><br />
It was exciting and we all enjoyed it very much.<br />
<a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/02/15/dscf0038.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=600,height=800,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Dscf0038" border="0" height="241px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/02/15/dscf0038.jpg" style="height: 241px; width: 174px;" title="Dscf0038" width="174px" /></a> <a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/02/15/dscf0039_2.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=600,height=800,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Dscf0039_2" border="0" height="240px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/02/15/dscf0039_2.jpg" style="height: 240px; width: 167px;" title="Dscf0039_2" width="167px" /></a><br />
The students were separated into several teams.<br />
Fukuwarai is a game to make a face, putting face parts one by one, without looking.<br />
One person put a blindfold over the eyes and the others tell where he/she should put the face parts.<br />
We made a rule that the other teams can tell wrong directions to disturb the person.<br />
They were so loud that I guess the players couldn't hear thier teammate's voice...<br />
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<a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/02/15/dscf0041.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Dscf0041" border="0" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/02/15/dscf0041.jpg" title="Dscf0041" width="200px" /></a><br />
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I'm so sorry for using the famous TV entertainers' faces....<br />
Haruka Ayase, Keisuke Kuwata, Matsuko Delax, Takuya Kimura....<br />
Their face can't be recognized anymore..<br />
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And we played S.H.J. Special Karuta after that.<br />
<a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/02/15/dscf0049.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Dscf0049" border="0" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/02/15/dscf0049.jpg" title="Dscf0049" width="200px" /></a> <a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/02/15/dscf0052.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=600,height=800,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Dscf0052" border="0" height="204px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/02/15/dscf0052.jpg" style="height: 204px; width: 150px;" title="Dscf0052" width="150px" /></a><br />
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And then, we ate Ehoh-maki!<br />
I tried to make A LOT of steamed rice for the students, and it turned into a fiasco.<br />
The rice wasn't cooked enough, though I used a rice cooker...<br />
I'm a bad.. bad cooker:-(<br />
Our students were smiling wryly...;<br />
I've never made such a lot of rice before.. that's why it didn't go well......<br />
But the other teachers tried to make the rice softer with a microwave and it got better.<br />
I'm so sorry,everyone!!<br />
<a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/02/15/dscf0068.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=600,height=800,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Dscf0068" border="0" height="216px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/02/15/dscf0068.jpg" style="height: 216px; width: 146px;" title="Dscf0068" width="146px" /></a> <a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/02/15/dscf0072.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Dscf0072" border="0" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/02/15/dscf0072.jpg" title="Dscf0072" width="200px" /></a> Ei-san is very clever with her hands.<br />
They were all good at rolling rice!<br />
<a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/02/15/dscf0071.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Dscf0071" border="0" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/02/15/dscf0071.jpg" title="Dscf0071" width="200px" /></a> They rolled things as they like.<br />
<a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/02/15/dscf0082.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=600,height=800,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Dscf0082" border="0" height="229px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/02/15/dscf0082.jpg" style="height: 229px; width: 160px;" title="Dscf0082" width="160px" /></a> Kyu-san's. I really want to see it cut, but Ehoh-maki isn't supposed to be cut...<br />
Ujjwal-san looks very serious. <a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/02/15/dscf0079.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Dscf0079" border="0" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/02/15/dscf0079.jpg" title="Dscf0079" width="200px" /></a><br />
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We were supposed to eat the rolled sushi looking in north-northwest and eat without a word.<br />
<a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/02/15/dscf0085.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Dscf0085" border="0" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/02/15/dscf0085.jpg" title="Dscf0085" width="200px" /></a> <a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/02/15/dscf0086.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Dscf0086" border="0" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/02/15/dscf0086.jpg" title="Dscf0086" width="200px" /></a><br />
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An acquaintance of ours saw it from the street in front of the school and told me<br />
' I saw you eating Ehoh-maki today!'<br />
The Fukuwarai made by students is put on the board just outside of the school<br />
and many passers-by seem to look at it with interests:-DSHJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12666029869725665144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156894523843698665.post-78281275867981266892012-02-01T20:40:00.000-08:002012-02-01T20:40:55.013-08:00New year party 2012We had a ricecake party on January 18th.<br />
<a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/01/31/img_4661.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=533,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Img_4661" border="0" height="212px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/01/31/img_4661.jpg" title="Img_4661" width="320px" /></a><br />
We talked about how Japanese people spend new year,and studied the Japanese names of the ingredients before cooking.<br />
<a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/01/31/dscf1661.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Dscf1661" border="0" height="139px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/01/31/dscf1661.jpg" style="height: 139px; width: 178px;" title="Dscf1661" width="178px" /></a><a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/01/31/dscf1655_2.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Dscf1655_2" border="0" height="139px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/01/31/dscf1655_2.jpg" style="height: 139px; width: 177px;" title="Dscf1655_2" width="177px" /></a><a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/01/31/dscf1658.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Dscf1658" border="0" height="139px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/01/31/dscf1658.jpg" style="height: 139px; width: 180px;" title="Dscf1658" width="180px" /></a><br />
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We shared the chores,cutting a small sitrus fruit,cutting some Japanese radish and carrots,<br />
baking ricecake and so on.<br />
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<a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/01/31/dscf1674.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Dscf1674" border="0" height="133px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/01/31/dscf1674.jpg" style="height: 133px; width: 176px;" title="Dscf1674" width="176px" /></a>Sua-san cutting a sitrus fruit behind people chatting.<br />
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<a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/01/31/dscf1672.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Dscf1672" border="0" height="140px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/01/31/dscf1672.jpg" style="height: 140px; width: 178px;" title="Dscf1672" width="178px" /></a>Sou-san making spicy cod roe with mayo.<br />
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Dung-san looks cool with a nife in his hand.<a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/01/31/dscf1684.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Dscf1684" border="0" height="139px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/01/31/dscf1684.jpg" style="height: 139px; width: 175px;" title="Dscf1684" width="175px" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/01/31/dscf1699.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Dscf1699" border="0" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/01/31/dscf1699.jpg" title="Dscf1699" width="200px" /></a>Jinsup-san prepareing soy source for ricecake.<br />
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And here we have Ozouni!<a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/01/31/img_4655.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=533,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Img_4655" border="0" height="118px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/01/31/img_4655.jpg" style="height: 118px; width: 175px;" title="Img_4655" width="175px" /></a><br />
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Some of them had heard of it,but never had a chance to eat before.<br />
I hope it was a good Japanese culture experience for them.<br />
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<a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/01/31/dscf1711.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Dscf1711" border="0" height="134px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/01/31/dscf1711.jpg" style="height: 134px; width: 177px;" title="Dscf1711" width="177px" /></a><a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/01/31/dscf1753.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=600,height=800,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Dscf1753" border="0" height="183px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/01/31/dscf1753.jpg" style="height: 183px; width: 128px;" title="Dscf1753" width="128px" /></a><a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/01/31/dscf1730.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Dscf1730" border="0" height="127px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/01/31/dscf1730.jpg" style="height: 127px; width: 171px;" title="Dscf1730" width="171px" /></a><br />
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We also had New year dishes from other countries.<br />
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Korean Ozouni<a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/01/31/dscf1783.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Dscf1783" border="0" height="122px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/01/31/dscf1783.jpg" style="height: 122px; width: 155px;" title="Dscf1783" width="155px" /></a> Taiwanese Ozouni<a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/01/31/dscf1714.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Dscf1714" border="0" height="122px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/01/31/dscf1714.jpg" style="height: 122px; width: 157px;" title="Dscf1714" width="157px" /></a><br />
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and Vietnamese sweets<a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/01/31/dscf1697.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Dscf1697" border="0" height="129px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/01/31/dscf1697.jpg" style="height: 129px; width: 174px;" title="Dscf1697" width="174px" /></a><br />
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They all tasted nice in different ways.<br />
<a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/01/31/dscf1777.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Dscf1777" border="0" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/01/31/dscf1777.jpg" title="Dscf1777" width="200px" /></a> <a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/01/31/dscf1778.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Dscf1778" border="0" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/01/31/dscf1778.jpg" title="Dscf1778" width="200px" /></a><br />
<a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/01/31/dscf1779.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Dscf1779" border="0" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/01/31/dscf1779.jpg" title="Dscf1779" width="200px" /></a> <a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/01/31/dscf1780.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Dscf1780" border="0" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/01/31/dscf1780.jpg" title="Dscf1780" width="200px" /></a><br />
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I tink, well...I hope I've lost the weight I gained during New year's holidays.<br />
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January 31st, 2012SHJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12666029869725665144noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156894523843698665.post-55399173284031620312012-02-01T20:30:00.000-08:002012-02-01T20:30:00.103-08:00Happy new year!It's first time to write something this year.<br />
I'm sorry for being away for a while.<br />
<a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/01/24/dscf0001.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=600,height=800,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Dscf0001" border="0" height="200px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/01/24/dscf0001.jpg" title="Dscf0001" width="150px" /></a><br />
Our shool's director and principal went to Meiji shrine the other day.<br />
They brought back a miniture of the shrine,god of study,and now we have it at the reception.<br />
Our students seem to be very interested in it.<br />
<a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/01/24/dscf0004.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="Dscf0004" border="0" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/01/24/dscf0004.jpg" title="Dscf0004" width="200px" /></a><br />
We had snow in Tokyo yesterday.<br />
Dung-san and Nam-san from Vietnam saw snow for the first time and got excited,saying <br />
'Sensei!Let's have a snowball fight!'<br />
I was actually a little scared by the thougt that they might throw it very hard to me,<br />
with the hates for the tests I give them:-0...<br />
<a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/01/24/2012_1.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"><img alt="2012_1" border="0" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/images/2012/01/24/2012_1.jpg" title="2012_1" width="200px" /></a><br />
We usually have more snow in February.<br />
We might have a lot of snow this year,since it snowed a few times already.<br />
The snow on the road got frozen and very slippery.<br />
We might be able to skate....<br />
Everyone,please mind your step.<br />
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<br />
January 24th,2012SHJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12666029869725665144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156894523843698665.post-17594343415762902032011-12-26T17:35:00.000-08:002011-12-26T17:35:42.937-08:00Christmas party 2011We had a christmas party at our school on Dec 15th.<br />
Every student was given each role like a receptionist,a host,a performance leader and a waiter.<br />
Their friends and Japanese university students were coming and they were excited practising their program,giving ideas about snacks and serving drinks as a bartender.<br />
We had a great time!<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="135px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/12/23/_n116670.jpg" width="200px" /> <img alt="Photo" height="200px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/12/23/img_4364.jpg" width="133px" /> <img alt="Photo" height="133px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/12/23/img_4426.jpg" width="200px" /><br />
<br />
Our students played 'Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer'with water-filled glasses.<br />
They were singing while plyaying it in rehearsal,but too nervous to sing in the<br />
performance.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Sgsi4SEAc&list=UUPPsvn33Xz-fzFkhDUMW7PA&index=3&feature=plcp">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Sgsi4SEAc&list=UUPPsvn33Xz-fzFkhDUMW7PA&index=3&feature=plcp</a><br />
<br />
The sound was sweet and beautiful.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="123px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/12/23/_n116528.jpg" width="200px" /> <img alt="Photo" height="132px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/12/23/_n116529.jpg" width="200px" /><br />
<br />
One of our teacher sang JAZZ christmas song accompanied by our principal,Mr.Honda and Mr.Idemoto on the guitar and Ms.Hosaka on the violin.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdv1RLSRY9A&list=UUPPsvn33Xz-fzFkhDUMW7PA&index=8&feature=plcp">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdv1RLSRY9A&list=UUPPsvn33Xz-fzFkhDUMW7PA&index=8&feature=plcp</a><br />
<br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/12/23/_n116505.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Photo" border="0" height="132px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/12/23/_n116505.jpg" width="200px" /></a><img alt="Photo" height="133px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/12/23/img_4380.jpg" width="200px" /> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">It made the atomosphere very CHRISTMAS!</div><br />
The winner of the photo contest in fall had been decided and awarded during the party.<br />
No.8 by Bogyeoung-san was in the first place <br />
<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="200px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/12/23/img_4386.jpg" width="133px" /> <img alt="Photo" height="200px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/12/23/entry8_bk.jpg" width="133px" /><br />
<br />
and No.1 by Haeseong-san was in the second.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="133px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/12/23/img_4388.jpg" width="200px" /> <img alt="Photo" height="149px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/12/23/entry1_heson.jpg" width="200px" /><br />
The prizes were rice 5kg and 1kg.<br />
It is very practical and nothing like Chritmas but they seemed happy to have it.<br />
Thank you very much for your cooporation to the contrst.<br />
We,teathers also entertained the guests by dancing Heavy rotation'by AKB48 and 'GEE' by Girls generation. We secretly practised it after class.<br />
The performance was better than any rehearsals.<br />
Teachers are used to doing something in public,I guess.<br />
The audience was very excited about men dancing like girls!<br />
<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="133px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/12/23/img_4474.jpg" width="200px" /> <img alt="Photo" height="125px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/12/23/_n116567.jpg" width="200px" /><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6HtPOI2lqw&list=UUPPsvn33Xz-fzFkhDUMW7PA&index=1&feature=plcp">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6HtPOI2lqw&list=UUPPsvn33Xz-fzFkhDUMW7PA&index=1&feature=plcp</a><br />
<br />
There are some people coming in front of the video to take pictures and video.<br />
I'll ask students to get the video and upload it.<br />
I hope you can feel the excitement by the sound.<br />
Actually teachers were the ones who enjoyed it the most.<br />
<br />
We sang 'Jingle bell world ver.' in the end of the party.<br />
Lyric was given to everyone and we sang together in the languages of our students.<br />
<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="133px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/12/23/img_4507.jpg" width="200px" /> <img alt="Photo" height="133px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/12/23/_n116602.jpg" width="200px" /> <img alt="Photo" height="133px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/12/23/img_4512.jpg" width="200px" /><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6K8P_hyLnQ&list=UUPPsvn33Xz-fzFkhDUMW7PA&index=20&feature=plcp">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6K8P_hyLnQ&list=UUPPsvn33Xz-fzFkhDUMW7PA&index=20&feature=plcp</a><br />
<br />
I want to introduce the part 'Jingle bell Jingle bell' in each language.<br />
<br />
Korean: Cheonsori Ulryora<br />
Chinese: DingDingdan Dingdingdan<br />
Vietnamese:Dangdingdon Dangdingdon<br />
<br />
Some people were reluctant to leave the party and kept enjoying drinking and singing.<br />
<br />
'Champs Elysees'by Mr.Idemoto,which we are considering as our new school song.<br />
<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="132px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/12/23/_n116682.jpg" width="200px" /> <img alt="Photo" height="142px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/12/23/_n116641.jpg" width="200px" /><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxjQcSbVOSw&feature=bf_next&list=UUPPsvn33Xz-fzFkhDUMW7PA&lf=plcp">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxjQcSbVOSw&feature=bf_next&list=UUPPsvn33Xz-fzFkhDUMW7PA&lf=plcp</a><br />
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I hope all the people there were having fun.<br />
Thank you for coming and cooporating.<br />
We will definitely have a christmas party next year,too!SHJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12666029869725665144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156894523843698665.post-25092460876706590432011-12-01T17:07:00.000-08:002011-12-01T17:07:10.083-08:00The Photo ContestFinaly all the entry pictures were decided!<br />
We went to Jingu-gaien to take the photos for this contest on Nov 15th.<br />
<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="452px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/11/28/11.jpg" width="640px" /><br />
<br />
Everyone has different taste of expression.<br />
I will show these pictures to people both inside and outside of school and <br />
ask them to choose which one is most AUTUMN-LIKE.<br />
Who will be the winner?SHJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12666029869725665144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156894523843698665.post-76013847151937962022011-11-18T05:01:00.000-08:002011-11-18T05:01:40.389-08:00Photo contest 2011 fall<img alt="Photo" height="213px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/11/18/img_4280.jpg" width="320px" /><br />
<br />
It's getting colder day by day.<br />
It seems to skip autumn and go straight to winter.<br />
It was like summer a little while ago, but now it's chilly and can't go out without a coat.<br />
I can't believe that I was saying 'It's too hot!!!!' till a few months ago.<br />
I guess I'll be saying that I can't believe I was saying ' It's too cold!!!' when summer comes.<br />
I love Japanese 4 seasons.<br />
<br />
We had an autumn photo contest on 15th Nov.<br />
We walked around 'Jingu Gaien' to find something to shoot.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="133px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/11/18/img_4295.jpg" width="200px" /><img alt="Photo" height="133px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/11/18/img_4295.jpg" width="200px" /><img alt="Photo" height="133px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/11/18/img_4292.jpg" width="200px" /><br />
<br />
It's cold AFTER 15th, but it wasn't that cold then and the leaves weren't really yellow.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="133px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/11/18/img_4293.jpg" width="200px" /><br />
<br />
Still, our students were trying to find something autumn-like......<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="133px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/11/18/img_4291.jpg" width="200px" /> <img alt="Photo" height="133px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/11/18/img_4294.jpg" width="200px" /> seriously:-D<br />
<br />
It's interesting to look one to the other. Everyone has each way to take photos with different angle and<br />
view point.<br />
Ginkoes weren't yellowish enough, so it didn't look the same with the scene which appears in dramas often.<br />
<br />
But they seemed to relax going out and talking to others and reflesh before JLPT.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="133px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/11/18/img_4303.jpg" width="200px" /> I wrote SHJ with leaves.<br />
<br />
We've gotta concentrate on the test from now!!<br />
We have a trial examination on monday.<br />
I hope the students can get enough scores to pass the level they're going to take.<br />
Oh, and I will put up the photos in the contest later.<br />
Some of them can't deside which one to place on display...SHJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12666029869725665144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156894523843698665.post-64933742190270740282011-11-07T04:14:00.000-08:002011-11-07T04:14:59.104-08:00JLS Student's Festival 2011There was a festival for students of Japanese language schools this month.<br />
3,500 people came to Ikebukuro to join the event!<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/10/26/dscf1559.jpg" width="200px" /><img alt="Photo" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/10/26/dscf1569.jpg" width="200px" /><img alt="Photo" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/10/26/dscf1562.jpg" width="200px" /><br />
<br />
The place was bigger than last year, but still it was hard to squeeze my way through the crowd.<br />
I heard that less students want to come to Japan to study after the earthquake,but it didn't seem so.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/10/26/dscf1605.jpg" width="200px" /> Our students appeared on the Kimono show!!<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/10/26/dscf1587.jpg" width="200px" /><br />
Ujjwal san and Ingul san:-D They both looked great!!!<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="200px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/10/26/dscf1568.jpg" width="150px" /><img alt="Photo" height="200px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/10/26/img_3553.jpg" width="150px" /><img alt="Photo" height="200px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/10/26/img_3560.jpg" width="150px" /><br />
<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="200px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/10/26/img_3542.jpg" width="150px" /><img alt="Photo" height="200px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/10/26/dscf1599.jpg" width="150px" /> Eunhyun san looked beautiful.<br />
It was a 'SHOW' ,so they walked on a runway and stroke a pose.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/10/26/dscf1597.jpg" width="200px" /><br />
<br />
I didn't know Sou san was such good at Origami.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="200px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/10/26/img_3497.jpg" width="150px" /><img alt="Photo" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/10/26/img_3498.jpg" width="200px" /><br />
Sua san learning how to make a heart from Sou san.<br />
I wonder why Sou san chose black to make hearts....<br />
<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="200px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/10/26/origami2.jpg" width="150px" /> Nam san could make a beautiful crane.<br />
They are all clever with their hands:-)<br />
<br />
They also tried Shamisen and Koto.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/10/26/img_3504.jpg" width="200px" /> <img alt="Photo" height="200px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/10/26/img_3505.jpg" width="150px" /><br />
<br />
Nam san and Sou san have a good musical sense!<br />
<br />
Ujjwal san having a counseling with Lakeland university,<a href="http://www.japan.lakeland.edu/"><span style="color: black;">http://www.japan.lakeland.edu/</span></a>.<br />
He's interested in studying in English at university in Japan.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/10/26/dscf1606.jpg" width="200px" /><br />
He also went to ask several other universities and vocational schools about Infant education, design and <br />
so on.<br />
I hope our students could be a little clear about their future and had a lot of fun there!SHJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12666029869725665144noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156894523843698665.post-60564960189753731392011-10-03T04:31:00.000-07:002011-10-03T04:31:51.165-07:00A party with Japanese university students<img alt="Photo" height="213px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/09/29/img_4145.jpg" width="320px" /><br />
<div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr">We had the monthly event the other day.</div><div dir="ltr">It was the last activity in this term.</div><div dir="ltr">I'm sorry for taking time to update the blog every time.</div><div dir="ltr">The event was awesome.</div><div dir="ltr">I myself really enjoyed it,though it's meant to entertain students,not teachers.</div><div dir="ltr">Teachers need to have fun,too!! I mean, to enjoy it with students.Don't you think so:-D?</div><div dir="ltr">There were some Japanese students introduced by a vocational school,Japan electronics college <a href="http://www.jec.ac.jp/">http://www.jec.ac.jp/</a> and others were people who directly contacted us to join the party.</div><div dir="ltr"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/09/29/img_4001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Photo" border="0" height="133px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/09/29/img_4001.jpg" width="200px" /></a><img alt="Photo" height="133px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/09/29/img_3803.jpg" width="200px" /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div dir="ltr">I don't have a chance to talk to Japanese university students nowadays,</div><div dir="ltr">so I got a little nervous to have a chat with them.</div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2011/09/29/img_4077.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=533,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false"></a></div><div dir="ltr">During the party, we introduced ourselves first.</div><div dir="ltr">We did it in a unique way to make it fun.</div><div dir="ltr">The students wrote down three things about themselves and we put the paper on a whiteboard</div><div dir="ltr">to ask them who wrote which one.</div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr">It was so easy to find our students' ones, but Japanese students made it very difficult and fun.</div><div dir="ltr">'I'm D.J.' ' I'm working for a convenient store called Seven-Eleven.'</div><div dir="ltr">'I'm muscular.' 'I was hungover yesterday.'I'm a pretty university student.'</div><div dir="ltr">I couldn't stop laughing.</div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/09/29/img_3827.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Photo" border="0" height="133px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/09/29/img_3827.jpg" width="200px" /></a><img alt="Photo" height="133px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/09/29/img_3829.jpg" width="200px" /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">↑Sawako-san and Shoji-san mimicing D.J.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">After introducing ourselves, we had games.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The gesture game was the funniest!</div><img alt="Photo" height="133px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/09/29/img_3895.jpg" width="200px" /> Marcel-san and Yuta-san were the best partners!<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="133px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/09/29/img_3914.jpg" width="200px" /> Listnening to an instruction about a game.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="133px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/09/29/img_3947.jpg" width="200px" /> It may be just a game, but it's still important!!!<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="133px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/09/29/img_4077.jpg" width="200px" /> Meri-san talking to our students<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="133px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/09/29/img_4104.jpg" width="200px" /> Hi-san's gesture<br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/09/29/img_4123.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Photo" border="0" height="133px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/09/29/img_4123.jpg" width="200px" /></a><img alt="Photo" height="133px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/09/29/img_4117.jpg" width="200px" /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Unhyung-san watching very closely</div><img alt="Photo" height="213px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/09/29/img_4142.jpg" width="320px" />Winners!!!!<br />
<br />
<div dir="ltr">Shoji-san,Bogyeong-san,Ujjwal-san,Maiko-san,Sawako-san and Hi-san,congraturations!</div><div dir="ltr">Thank you for coming!</div><div dir="ltr">Our students have never talked such a lot with Japanese university students.<br />
They seemed to have a lot of fun.</div><div dir="ltr">It was also good for them to keep talking in Japanese with someone apart from teachers.</div><div dir="ltr">I hope that we can have this kind of party regularly.</div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">September 29th,2011</div></div>SHJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12666029869725665144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156894523843698665.post-58531975390385120052011-09-20T05:12:00.000-07:002011-09-20T05:14:28.170-07:00After the end-of-term testThe breeze in the morning and evening is cool and I feel a little of autum.<br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">It was the day of the harvest moon yesterday.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">I could see the full moon clearly.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">In Japan and Korea, we see rabits pounding mochi in the full moon.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">I heard that people see a person walking in that in Western countries.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Each county has each way of view.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">It's very hot these days.The late summer heat is again severe this year.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">It was 34 degree centigrade today in Tokyo.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">When I was little, it was already cool in the middle of September, but it's getting hotter and hotter every year.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">We had an end-of-term exam on September 9th.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The results were.. well , I don't mention it now.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Our students are already thinking about the autum breaks.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The bulletin board in front of the school is full of autum, too.</div><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">I made it Shiritori, a word game, but some of them are not quite autum words.</div>I'm thinking very hard to make and decorate this bulletin board every time.<br />
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The other day, I used pictures to introduce the expression'~to omoimasu' in the class.<br />
Can you tell what they are?<br />
They are all something you daily use.<br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">September 13th,2011</div></div>SHJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12666029869725665144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156894523843698665.post-32464869752822719092011-09-20T04:50:00.000-07:002011-09-20T04:50:26.011-07:00Events最近、学校関係でいろいろな講演や講習に行っています<img alt="wink" class="emoticon wink" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/images/emoticon/wink.gif" /><br />
先日9月1日は、池上彰さんコーディネーターで<img alt="shine" class="emoticon shine" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/images/emoticon/shine.gif" /><br />
「<img alt="shine" class="emoticon shine" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/images/emoticon/shine.gif" />笑いと平和<img alt="shine" class="emoticon shine" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/images/emoticon/shine.gif" /> ~世界の小話(笑いのツボはこんなにちがう!?)」<br />
という講演を聞きました<img alt="karaoke" class="emoticon karaoke" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/images/emoticon/karaoke.gif" /><img alt="happy01" class="emoticon happy01" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/images/emoticon/happy01.gif" /><br />
I've attended several events recently.<br />
On September 1st, I went to a lecture ' Laugh and peace' by none other than Akira Ikegami.<br />
He is a very famous jarnalist in Japan.<br />
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It was very interesting to hear some stories about people from other countries.<br />
Some were social, had black humor and others were just simply fun.<br />
I personally liked the one about Chinggis Khan.<br />
It was like this.<br />
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There was a child who does nothing but play all the time.<br />
The father of the child said 'Why don't you stop playing and do something!?When Chinggis Khan was <br />
about your age, he was already ruling this country!' <br />
Then the child said 'Then when he was about your age, he was ruling about the half of the world!'<br />
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I was thrilled by the child's counterattack:-D<br />
All the stories were very fun.<br />
I was also surprised at them speaking Japanese fluently.<br />
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And on September 4th, I went to a Wadaiko, Japanese drum, lesson for Japanese teachers.<br />
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</div>I enjoyed it very much since I love festivals and had been interested in playing Japanese drums.<br />
When the instructor played it, I could feel the vibration and rhythm through my body.<br />
I wanted to shout 'Seiya!!!' like Japanese drummer usually say, but all I could do was just following <br />
the rhythm.<br />
My whole body is aching today:-(<br />
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September 5th, 2011SHJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12666029869725665144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156894523843698665.post-5982678937362392882011-08-31T21:28:00.000-07:002011-08-31T21:30:04.889-07:00New teachersWe are recruting new teachers now.<br />
The new term is starting from October and more fresh students are coming.<br />
There will be more classes,too:-)<br />
I can't wait to see our new students:-D<br />
Their dream of coming to Japan has come true!<br />
I want to welcome them warmly, but be also strict for them.<br />
We, teachers are so excited to see new students,<br />
and our current students are looking forward to seeing new teachers and students!<br />
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<img alt="Photo" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/08/26/dscf1159.jpg" width="200px" /> A plant in the lounge<br />
I hope the school and people grow like new buds flourish:-)SHJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12666029869725665144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156894523843698665.post-78859090747255592152011-08-25T22:51:00.000-07:002011-08-25T22:51:51.338-07:00RedecorationWe redecorated our school a little.<br />
There was nothing in the lounge before and the library looked a bit too serious.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/08/24/dscf1152.jpg" width="200px" /> Now it looks more cozy, I hope.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/08/24/dscf1153.jpg" width="200px" /> And in the library, you can feel the warmth of wood!!<br />
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Shu-san is relaxing in the new lounge. Behind him are the brochures of schools.<br />
We are going to change the decoration little by little.<br />
I get along better with my work when the environment changes.<br />
I'll try not to be a teacher who's always redecorating somewhere;;<br />
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We have end-of-term examination soon, on Sep 9th, so I need to make our students<br />
to concentrate on their study more!SHJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12666029869725665144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156894523843698665.post-36924316279318799922011-08-25T20:54:00.000-07:002011-08-25T20:54:45.835-07:00How to spend the summerEveryone has each way to enjoy the summer.<br />
It's not that hot this year and much more comfortable than usual.<br />
Students are thinking about what they will do during vacation.<br />
Some of them already went to some festivals.<br />
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Our Korean students joined a festival in Koenji the other day.<br />
They were surprised at the Japanese people begin dancing in the same way when the music started.<br />
Most of Japanese people know how to dance' Bon-odori'.<br />
I don't know exactly why I know it. I think it's similar to 'folk dance' for Eastern people.<br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">And I went to watch a baseball game!</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">It was a cool night and I was outside watching baseball with beer and Edamame in my hands...</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/08/04/dscf1100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Photo" border="0" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/08/04/dscf1100.jpg" width="200px" /></a><img alt="Photo" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/08/04/dscf1094.jpg" width="200px" /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><img alt="Photo" height="200px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/08/04/dscf1097.jpg" width="150px" /> They set off fireworks.<br />
I had a great time and I hope I can have more nice memory for this summer.<br />
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August 4th, 2011<br />
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SHJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12666029869725665144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156894523843698665.post-44642348489463547472011-08-25T20:41:00.000-07:002011-08-25T20:41:05.715-07:00Summer Program 2011<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/08/03/dscf1110_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>It's been a while since I last wrote somethhing here.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The summer program has started!</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">I expected the weather to be very hot and thought I would have a hard time taking students around.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/08/03/dscf1110_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>But.. I didn't know it can be such cool in summer here. Well, 'cool' might be too exaggerated, but</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">still it's much better than last year.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><img alt="Photo" height="200px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/08/03/dscf1005_2.jpg" width="150px" /> Our students asking a police officer for directions</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><img alt="Photo" height="200px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/08/03/dscf1006_3.jpg" width="150px" /> In front of a crepe shop</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/08/03/269400_2191900632334_1091684368_3_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Photo" border="0" height="200px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/08/03/269400_2191900632334_1091684368_3_2.jpg" width="149px" /></a><img alt="Photo" height="149px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/08/03/268113_2191932553132_1091684368_3_2.jpg" width="200px" /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> Disney Sea!!</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">She's holding a ticket case.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">They bought a lot of things which can be purchased only in Disney.</div>To see the parade of this summer, you definitely needed a towel.<br />
They threw water on spectators A LOT.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/08/03/dscf1017.jpg" width="200px" /> They are going to ride on something scarylol<br />
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<img alt="Photo" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/08/03/dscf1041_2.jpg" width="200px" /> Ujjwal-san from Nepal. He's saying 'My right hand hurts.'<br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/08/03/dscf1092_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Photo" border="0" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/08/03/dscf1092_2.jpg" width="200px" /></a><img alt="Photo" height="132px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/08/03/img_3411_2.jpg" width="200px" /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">and Yukata.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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They have sweet smile on their faces, but actually they were saying some complaints, too:-)<br />
' It's difficult to walk.' ' Too tight to eat something..'<br />
I hope they still liked Yukata:-D<br />
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</div><img alt="Photo" height="200px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/08/03/dscf1107.jpg" width="150px" /> We also went to Fujikyu-Highland.<br />
They were telling me they were not scared, but I doubt so.<br />
They were shouting 'NOOOOOOO' , ' I'M SOOOORRYYY' or something like that.<br />
I had a cold at that time and my voice was hoarse, but I still made some shouts while riding.<br />
I guess now I know why my voice doesn't get better.<br />
Our students for summer program seem to be having a good time.<br />
That's all that matters to me:-)<br />
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August 2nd,2011<br />
SHJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12666029869725665144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156894523843698665.post-21384025165454813402011-07-18T17:12:00.000-07:002011-07-18T17:15:47.170-07:00Star festival<div id="beta"><div class="pkg" id="beta-inner"><h2 class="date-header"><h3 class="entry-header"><a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/2011/07/post_2a7e.html"></a></h3><em>ささのはさらさら のきばにゆれる<img alt="notes" class="emoticon notes" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/images/emoticon/notes.gif" /><br />
おほしさまきらきら きんぎんすなご<img alt="notes" class="emoticon notes" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/images/emoticon/notes.gif" /><br />
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ごしきのたんざく わたしがかいた<img alt="notes" class="emoticon notes" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/images/emoticon/notes.gif" /><br />
おほしさまきらきら そらからみてる<img alt="notes" class="emoticon notes" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/.shared/images/emoticon/notes.gif" /></em></h2><div class="entry" id="entry-37830251"><div class="entry-content"><div class="entry-body">July 7th was a day called 'the star festival' in Japan.<br />
I heard that the story was introduced into Japan from China.<br />
There are a woman called 'Orihime' and a man called 'Hikoboshi' across the river and they can see<br />
each other only once a year.<br />
Let me skip the details....<br />
Our students wrote down their wish and decorated on the bamboo leaves which we borrowed from<br />
Japan Electronics college.<br />
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<div id="beta"><div class="pkg" id="beta-inner"><div class="entry" id="entry-37830251"><div class="entry-content"><div class="entry-body">They were supposed to write only one wish,but didn't listened to me...:-(<br />
I glanced at the paper amd found so many kinds of wishes.<br />
' I want my family to keep their health.'<br />
' I want a pretty Japanese girl friend.'<br />
' I want to be successful.'<br />
' I want to join Gekidan Shiki.'<br />
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' I want to enjoy taking a walk in Japan.'<br />
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I wrote a wish for myself,too.<br />
' I want to meet great students and teachers.'<br />
And ofcourse I also wished the rivival of Japan.<br />
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but it's like summer already. Not only because it's July now, but also because<br />
it's been so hot these days.<br />
Last year, it was unbelievably hot. I hope it will be cooler and less humid this year...<br />
It's kind of a serious problem since we need to economize on electricity this summer.<br />
I've never seen Tokyo people trying to save electricity such seriously before.<br />
When I went to buy an electric fan, there were so many people gathering to buy one.<br />
I heard that some of electorical stores are out of them now.<br />
I think it's a very good thing to try to save electrocity^^<br />
It's been years since Japanese government started 'Cool Biz' , trying to let people wear something more<br />
casual and cool on business in summer. It's been fruitless, but this year.<br />
It seems many companies are now introducing it to reduce their electricity use.<br />
I myself am trying to use an electric fan as often as possible to cut it down.<br />
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The sad thing is some fireworks festivals have been called off because of the disaster that <br />
happend on March,11th. I think they shouldn't cancel that kind of things especially in times like this.<br />
I heard firework makers are having really hard time by that.<br />
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Beautiful, isn't it? Tokyo bay fireworks festival isn't going to be held this year, but Sumida river fireworks festival is. I'm looking forward to watching Tokyo bay's one every year, so I'm very dissapointed.<br />
If you want to know where and when fireworks displays are held, you can find out from the page below.<br />
<a href="http://hanabi.walkerplus.com/">http://hanabi.walkerplus.com/</a><br />
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Summer comes only once a year. We should fully enjoy it!!SHJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12666029869725665144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156894523843698665.post-19695177329764039172011-06-20T17:52:00.000-07:002011-06-20T17:55:00.460-07:00Rainy seasonThe rainy season has come in Japan. It's been raining a lot and it makes me a little down.<br />
But the season is also necessary and precious for Japan, so I can't just blame it.<br />
What do you think of when you hear the word 'Rainy season' in Japanese, 'Tsuyu'?<br />
Hydrangea, snails, frogs....My friend gave me some hydrangea and I put it in a vase.<br />
Looks nice,isn't it? I don't really like rainy season, but I like the flower^^<br />
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Come to think of it, it was raining everyday when I went to Ishigaki and Miyako islands, which are parts<br />
of Okinawa. It wasn't rainy or typhoon season..The sun is always shining wherever I go, but maybe <br />
the sky wasn't in a good mood^^;;<br />
Still it was so beautiful and I will definitely go there again.<br />
The picture below is the beach on Ishigaki island. The weather wasn't good, but look at the color of the water!! It should've been even more beautiful if it was sunny.<br />
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And this one is ...bla bla Cape..;; There was too many capes. I don't remember which one^^;<br />
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The color is amazing, isn't it?<br />
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And the picture below is a board that I found at a ramen shop in Miyako.<br />
Can you read the letters written on it?<br />
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Is it easy?? <br />
ありがとうArigato<br />
In English, thank you.<br />
It looks cool and creative! I hope I can write these kind of things,too.<br />
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If you ever have a chance to go to Okinawa, you should check out Ishigaki and Miyako islands ,too^^SHJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12666029869725665144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156894523843698665.post-26453524048592610572011-05-10T23:27:00.000-07:002011-05-10T23:27:01.535-07:00Strawberries!I went to Kasumigaura in Ibaragi prefecture to pick some strawberries.<br />
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We often use '~gari', which means 'hunting' in English, when we pick fruits and see something beautiful.<br />
Sakuranbo 'cherry'-gari, momo 'peach' -gari, nashi 'pear'-gari, budo 'grape'-gari, momiji ' red leaves' -gari,<br />
taka 'hawk'-gari, and so on.<br />
Oh!and oyaji 'middle-aged man' -gari!<br />
A little while ago, there were a lot of incidents that young people threaten middle-aged men to get some<br />
money. You know, middle-aged men supposedly have money.<br />
I don't hear such things happen these days, though.<br />
Well, let's get back to what I was talking about.<br />
Japanese language is very interesting, isn't it?<br />
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It was 1,000 yen for 30minutes to eat as much as I can.<br />
The strawberries were delicious!!<br />
My friend was busy looking around to find big ones.<br />
I like small and sweet strawberries, so just sat and kept eating the ones around me.<br />
When nothing left to eat, I moved a little and again, started eating.<br />
Strawberries can make you full^^!<br />
I finally did something spring-ish!<br />
How about you^^?SHJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12666029869725665144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156894523843698665.post-82412057467977290352011-05-10T22:46:00.000-07:002011-05-10T22:50:10.441-07:00Spring in JapanSpring has come.Cherry blossoms bloomed and fell.<br />
It's supposed to be warm by now.....but....why is it such cold here?<br />
It's about 17 centigrade in Tokyo.<br />
If you only looked at the number, you would say ' It's warm enough!'..<br />
But actually it's still a litte chilly.<br />
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</div>It's been a while to update this blog;;;<br />
During my absent from here,our president went to China.<br />
Mr.Honda went to South Korea, Vietnam and Russia.<br />
I went to Taiwan and Nepal.<br />
Our principal told me that there was still some snow left in Russia.<br />
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<img alt="Photo" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/04/22/img_2195.jpg" width="200px" /> An airport in Russia. Looks nice.<br />
I heard that they had sleet while he was there.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="200px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/04/22/img_2265.jpg" width="150px" /> A BIG building.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/04/22/img_2237.jpg" width="200px" /> and a BIG square!!!!<br />
Everything is largh-scale. Japan is a very small country, and especially in Tokyo, we don't have <br />
enough room for that.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/04/22/dscf0766.jpg" width="200px" /> In Nepal, it seems this year is 'Tourism Year'.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/04/22/dscf0682.jpg" width="200px" /> The city was very lively.<br />
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<img alt="Photo" height="150px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/04/22/dscf0669.jpg" width="200px" /> It was a stimulating business trip.<br />
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I'm going to Taiwan and join an orientation and after that, I'm going to Thailand.<br />
I'm so excited to see Ms.Pop, our school's student, in her country.<br />
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April 22ndSHJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12666029869725665144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156894523843698665.post-41211006259466408062011-05-10T04:15:00.000-07:002011-05-10T04:16:53.828-07:00Met students graduated from our school!! Mr.Honda, our principal, went to Sounth Korea and I went to Taiwan for the first time after the earthquake.<br />
It seems different what they tell in the news in each country.<br />
I noticed that people are taking the news about Japan differently, some think they are exaggerated, <br />
others take it seriously and think Japan is in a crucial phase. There are also people who think <br />
Japan is just as same as before.<br />
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After the business, Mr. Honda met Mr.Park,our school's student.<br />
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</div>Our principal gave him a certificate and assignments for the lessons which couldn't be done<br />
after the shake.<br />
Noone can run away from homework...<br />
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And I met Ms.Lin, Koan,Shokin,and Keimin.<br />
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I rode in the back seat of a mortorcycle! It was first time for me to experience that.<br />
It was a little scary but fun!<br />
Koan san drove very carefully seeing me scared.<br />
I really enjoyed Taiwanese dishes.<br />
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We ate stir-fried vegetables and dumplings.<br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">I went to a night market with Lin san and this was for about 600yen.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">You might not be able to tell from the picture, but it's actually very big.</div><img alt="Photo" height="240px" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/04/05/110330_203916.jpg" width="320px" /><br />
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I was going to write about our school, but couldn't help telling about the dishes in Taiwan.<br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">It is very nice to eat foreign food with students who I haven't met for a while.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">It makes the meal even more delicious.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
April 5th</div>SHJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12666029869725665144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156894523843698665.post-54936356632997132242011-04-04T00:30:00.000-07:002011-04-04T00:31:21.137-07:00After the earthquake<div class="entry-body">It's been a week from the earthquake.<br />
I'm getting used to the unusual things like saving erectrocity and other stuff.<br />
How to shop is also different from the days before.<br />
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Now I know how many things we need to live conveniently like before.<br />
My father used to turn on the TV and the lights all day,but as soon as he heard <br />
we needed to save electrocity, he began to turn off the electrical appliances.<br />
<br />
Though we were under the same roof ,We used to spend time in different rooms,<br />
my father working in his study,my mother reading a book in the next room,<br />
my sister playing with her child in the other room, my brother working with a computer there,<br />
and me, again working in a different room.<br />
We stay in the same room now because of the regular black-out.<br />
Of course we are worried about each other, but it makes us to save the electrocity.<br />
Now we talk more because of the shortage of the electrocity.<br />
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I just thank everything now I have.<br />
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I heard the overseas news about the disaster is too exaggerated. <br />
Some say ' Japan is now in the red zone area.' and others say ' Japan is going to sink,or South Korea<br />
will be infected by the radiation.'<br />
But actually it's not true. We have quite ordinary life in Tokyo.<br />
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Our principal and I took a video around Shin-Okubo the other day.<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=161939750526604"><span style="color: #ff3300;">http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=161939750526604</span></a><br />
He also shooted a supermarket on weekend in Kiba, Tokyo.<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=162364773817435"><span style="color: #ff3300;">http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=162364773817435</span></a><br />
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We still have some inconvenience things,but live normaly.<br />
I want people to tell that.<br />
Personally I wanted to take a video around my house, but it's suburban and there's few people<br />
even before the shake.<br />
I could see even less people now..;<br />
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I'll write more next time, so please check it up^^<br />
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March 21st,2011</div>SHJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12666029869725665144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156894523843698665.post-36342528332000915302011-03-16T18:09:00.000-07:002011-03-16T18:09:15.720-07:00Tohoku Earthquake,March 11th,20114 days have past since the massive earthquake hit Japan.<br />
When it happend, our principal and I were on our way to a bookstore in Takadanobaba.<br />
We were outside and barely able to stand still.<br />
It was first time in my life to experience such a big shake.<br />
We had water and bread at school and the building was fortunately unharmed.<br />
It seems they have got big damages in Tohoku area.<br />
As for the people in Kanto, we are trying to save electrocity and being through regular blackouts.<br />
Chiba, the city I live in, is no exception.<br />
But TV proglams and internet telk us when it happens, so I'm ready for it.<br />
I've taken out some aroma candles that I used to like, also the normal ones from someone's barthday<br />
and even the ones from Buddhist altar.<br />
At supermarkets, there are long lines of the people to buy some emargency food.<br />
Most people just get within the minimum nessesary, and don't buy too much,<br />
thinking of the other people who need them,too.<br />
The ATMs were out of order after the shake, but we can use them now.<br />
The gas stations are full of cars.I've never seen such a lot of cars are making lines to get gas.<br />
I heard that bikes and sneakers were sold out everywhere in Tokyo on the day this disaster happened.<br />
We are still not sure what happens next, but time just goes by without asking us.<br />
The plum trees in Yushima-tenjin were in full bloom when I went there early this month.<br />
<img alt="Photo" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/03/15/getattachment.jpg" /><br />
The cherry blossoms will start blooming soon.<br />
I hope our life will be stable when they flower and<br />
always wish the people who are suffering from the worst clamity ever <br />
to feel the warmness of the spring.SHJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12666029869725665144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156894523843698665.post-69095252838097057852011-02-28T21:11:00.000-08:002011-02-28T21:11:22.604-08:00Takoyaki partyThe monthly event for February was 'Takoyaki party'.<br />
Takoyaki is a kind of dumplings with octopus in it.<br />
We only prepared some special flour for Takoyaki, octopus and cabage,<br />
and each student brought something they wanted to put in it.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="150" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/28/dscf0008.jpg" width="200" /> We competed which one tasted the best.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="150" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/28/dscf0013.jpg" width="200" /> Only Jonathan is looking at the camera.<br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><img alt="Photo" height="200" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/28/dscf0039.jpg" width="150" /> She brought Kimuchi, and this one,she's making Tuna cone takoyaki.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/28/dscf0017.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><img alt="Photo" height="200" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/28/dscf0028.jpg" width="150" /> Someone brought pork, sausage and cheese.<br />
A girl from Thailand tried adding Tomyamgoon powder and sauce made by her.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="150" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/28/dscf0047.jpg" width="200" /> Pop's work^^<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="200" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/28/dscf0038.jpg" width="150" /> Yuria brought some cheese and sweets from Russia.<br />
The cheese was very rich and the cherry sweets made us happy.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="150" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/28/dscf0560.jpg" width="200" /> Takoyaki with kimuchi.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="150" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/28/dscf0561.jpg" width="200" /> They thought over to make it round^^;<br />
They shouldn't be used to making Takoyaki,but they were like professionals <br />
with bamboo skewer in their hands twirling it.<br />
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<img alt="Photo" height="200" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/28/dscf0046.jpg" width="150" /> He looks like Japanese from Osaka. * Takoyaki is Osaka's specialty.<br />
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Inseon from South Korea and Pop from Thailand got the same points for their Takoyaki and <br />
did rock paper scissors.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="200" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/28/dscf0049.jpg" width="150" /> The winner was Inseon^^<br />
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I almost burnt my tongue with sausage, but it was nice after all.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="150" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/28/dscf0051.jpg" width="200" /> After that, we played a game' S.H.J Karuta'.<br />
S.H.J staff made it.<br />
It was about our teachers and students or some questions from a textbook 'Genki'.<br />
I guess they didn't really have difficulty in finding answers.<br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/28/dscf0056.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Photo" border="0" height="200" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/28/dscf0056.jpg" width="150" /></a><img alt="Photo" height="200" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/28/dscf0055.jpg" width="150" /> I was the one who slapped it first! </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> ,saying Inseon.</div><br />
They were so excited.<br />
We made some rules to make it difficult and fair, turning around to take it or putting their hands on the head.<br />
Pop was surprisingly quick to take the cards and won the game.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="150" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/28/dscf0059.jpg" width="200" /> She got 16 cards out of 46!<br />
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It was such a fun to cook Takoyaki together, but it would be difficult to do it at home;;;<br />
I hope we can have the party again^^<br />
The ones who lost should think hard about the ingredients to win next time.<br />
But please don't bring something which doesn't match with Takoyaki, like chocolate..</div><img alt="Photo" border="0" height="150" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/28/dscf0017.jpg" width="200" />SHJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12666029869725665144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156894523843698665.post-48852241510060949952011-02-27T23:22:00.000-08:002011-02-27T23:22:08.297-08:00Cultural experience-Tea ceremony and flower arrangement-It's getting warmer here, but still a little chilly in the morning and at night.<br />
Now, we have some students for 2 week winter proglam in Feb.<br />
It's smaller group than the one in Janurary,but multinational and seems they are having fun.<br />
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We tried flower arrangement and tea ceremony today.<br />
First, we studied flower arrangement from the basics.<br />
They all could arrange flowers very well.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="150" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/22/dscf0508.jpg" width="200" /><br />
Kazaru 'decorate' ⇒ Add(or do) something a little so that the flowers look beautiful.<br />
Ikeru 'arrange'⇒ Put the flowers and weeds in a vessel or something with water to <strong>enjoy</strong> them.<br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/22/dscf0511.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Photo" border="0" height="150" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/22/dscf0511.jpg" width="200" /></a><img alt="Photo" height="150" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/22/dscf0509.jpg" width="200" /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div>It seemed they were having difficulty with the arrangement,but still somehow they could manage to<br />
make them look nice.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="150" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/22/dscf0512.jpg" width="200" /><br />
<img alt="Photo" height="150" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/22/dscf0516.jpg" width="200" /> Songa's work^^<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="150" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/22/dscf0518.jpg" width="200" />Jonathan's work^^<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="150" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/22/dscf0520.jpg" width="200" />Yuria's work^^<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="150" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/22/dscf0521.jpg" width="200" />Cookie's work^^<br />
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We had tulips, sweet peas, carnations and russet willows to use.<br />
They made us feel the spring. <br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">I put them at the reception desk and feel even the enviroment of our office got better.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">They said thank you to us, but I'm the one who should say thank you^^</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/22/dscf0541.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Photo" border="0" height="150" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/22/dscf0541.jpg" width="200" /></a><img alt="Photo" height="150" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/22/dscf0540.jpg" width="200" /></div><br />
Next, we tried tea ceremony.<br />
We learned how to sit and use the items together.<br />
There are several ways to sit, and today we chose 'Seiza',sitting with one's legs bent beneath one.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="150" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/22/dscf0529.jpg" width="200" /> They drank the green tea and<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="150" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/22/dscf0528.jpg" width="200" /> ate some Japanese sweets and<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="150" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/22/dscf0527.jpg" width="200" /> tried making tea.<br />
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Ireru⇒Make tea, coffee and green tea.<br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div>Tateru⇒Make tea with green tea powder.<br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/22/dscf0538_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Photo" border="0" height="150" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/22/dscf0538_2.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/22/dscf0535.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Photo" border="0" height="150" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/22/dscf0535.jpg" width="200" /></a><img alt="Photo" height="150" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/22/dscf0532.jpg" width="200" /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">It seemed to be a little difficult for them to make it.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">They kept looking at the teacher as if they don't know when to stop.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">You need to stir until a lot of bubbles appear.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">I guess their hands will be stiff after making it.</div>SHJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12666029869725665144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156894523843698665.post-3764871957145654942011-02-23T21:10:00.000-08:002011-02-23T21:10:56.372-08:00A party with Japanese studentsThe winter proglam for January has finished and the students went back to their own country.<br />
We spent great time together for a month.<br />
I guess there were some little problems since they are away from their hometown and their parents,<br />
but hope there were a lot more fun things while staying in Japan.<br />
It was snowy on the last day of the proglam and so cold to go out for sight-seeing.<br />
We don't have much snow in Tokyo.They were lucky.. or unlucky. I don't know.<br />
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We had a party with Japanese students on 10th of Feb.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="213" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/14/img_3214.jpg" width="320" /><br />
First of all, of course we need to introduce ourselves.<br />
But they are shy , so we made it a little easy for them.<br />
It was like a game.<br />
They wrote their own specialty or feature on a sheet and <br />
later our teacher asked questions like.. ' Who do you think bla bla is?'<br />
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'Who do you think a good cook is?'<br />
'Who do you think watches baseball everyday?'<br />
'Who do you think has a big dog?'<br />
They just needed to guess just from their impression.<br />
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There was someone who could speak Chinese,<br />
so we asked all of the students to say 'Ni Hao'.<br />
We couldn't judge who it was from just a single simple word,though.<br />
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Who likes Miss Erika?<br />
Everyone likes the teacher ,but who loves her?<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="133" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/14/img_3145.jpg" width="200" />The answer is.....Miss Koan.<br />
All of the Japanese students who joined the party thought it would be a male student,<br />
but actually it was a girl. Girl students also can be in love with female teachers!<br />
I mean, as a teacher and a student^^<br />
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And after that, we had some time for asking questions which our students had prepared for this day.<br />
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They asked how they think of food,dramas and other things from their own countries.<br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><img alt="Photo" height="133" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/14/img_3151.jpg" width="200" />Not only about their countries, but also something about Japan, </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">like.. 'Do you like Akihabara?'</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/14/img_3167.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Photo" border="0" height="133" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/14/img_3167.jpg" style="cursor: move;" unselectable="on" width="200" /></a><img alt="Photo" border="0" height="133" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/14/img_3171.jpg" width="200" /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><br />
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<img alt="Photo" height="133" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/14/img_3172.jpg" width="200" /> After that, they could introduce the others very well.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="133" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/14/img_3179.jpg" width="200" /> We also played a game with Hiragana and Katakana.<br />
The Japanese students read the words and the foreign students listened to them.<br />
Only Jeesun from South Korea tried the reading part.<br />
It seemed very difficult since there were 2 teams speaking loud at the same time.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="133" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/14/img_3182.jpg" width="200" /> We could hear the students saying ' What did you say!?' from here and there.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="133" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/14/img_3181.jpg" width="200" /> Jiwoo looks fun seeing the others being confused.<br />
We also played Fruit Basket Turnover.<br />
They were very excited.<br />
It was such a relief that there was noone taking a class downstairs.<br />
The loser had to hug Miss. Suzuki. <br />
Well, you can't really call it 'a penalty',though^^;<br />
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Instead of fruit names, we played with the feature of the students, like ' someone who is~~'<br />
There was only one male studnet and one teacher,but girls called 'someone who is a guy!' or<br />
'Teacher!'...there was no choice for them.<br />
When someone say 'Fruit Basket!', all of them have to move around and take other seats,<br />
but everyone took the seat next to them..;; They should be sorry for the player in the center;;<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="133" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/14/img_3210.jpg" width="200" /> Fortunately noone got hurt, but there were a few accidents.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="133" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/14/img_3208.jpg" width="200" /> Some bumped into each other and others sat on their friend's lap.<br />
Shokin was in a hurry to find a seat,though it was only Japanese who had to move.<br />
We all had a good time.<br />
Jeesun and Teikun won the game.<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="133" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/14/img_3213.jpg" width="200" /> Congraturations!<br />
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And the one who lost the game was.......<br />
<img alt="Photo" height="133" src="http://shj.blog.ocn.ne.jp/photos/uncategorized/2011/02/14/img_3198.jpg" width="200" /> Shokin^^<br />
They seemed to have fun interviewing Japanese students and playing games with them.SHJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12666029869725665144noreply@blogger.com0