The Photo Contest

Finaly all the entry pictures were decided!
We went to Jingu-gaien to take the photos for this contest on Nov 15th.



Everyone has different taste of expression.
I will show these pictures to people both inside and outside of school and
ask them to choose which one is most AUTUMN-LIKE.
Who will be the winner?

Photo contest 2011 fall

It's getting colder day by day.
It seems to skip autumn and go straight to winter.
It was like summer a little while ago, but now it's chilly and can't go out without a coat.
I can't believe that I was saying 'It's too hot!!!!' till a few months ago.
I guess I'll be saying that I can't believe I was saying ' It's too cold!!!' when summer comes.
I love Japanese 4 seasons.

We had an autumn photo contest on 15th Nov.
We walked around 'Jingu Gaien' to find something to shoot.


It's cold AFTER 15th, but it wasn't that cold then and the leaves weren't really yellow.


Still, our students were trying to find something autumn-like......
    seriously:-D

It's interesting to look one to the other. Everyone has each way to take photos with different angle and
view point.
Ginkoes weren't yellowish enough, so it didn't look the same with the scene which appears in dramas often.

But they seemed to relax going out and talking to others and reflesh before JLPT.
  I wrote SHJ with leaves.

We've gotta concentrate on the test from now!!
We have a trial examination on monday.
I hope the students can get enough scores to pass the level they're going to take.
Oh, and I will put up the photos in the contest later.
Some of them can't deside which one to place on display...

JLS Student's Festival 2011

There was a festival for students of Japanese language schools this month.
3,500 people came to Ikebukuro to join the event!
 

The place was bigger than last year, but still it was hard to squeeze my way through the crowd.
I heard that less students want to come to Japan to study after the earthquake,but it didn't seem so.
 Our students appeared on the Kimono show!!

Ujjwal san and Ingul san:-D They both looked great!!!


 Eunhyun san looked beautiful.
It was a 'SHOW' ,so they walked on a runway and stroke a pose.


I didn't know Sou san was such good at Origami.

Sua san learning how to make a heart from Sou san.
I wonder why Sou san chose black to make hearts....

 Nam san could make a beautiful crane.
They are all clever with their hands:-)

They also tried Shamisen and Koto.
 

Nam san and Sou san have a good musical sense!

Ujjwal san having a counseling with Lakeland university,http://www.japan.lakeland.edu/.
He's interested in studying in English at university in Japan.

He also went to ask several other universities and vocational schools about Infant education, design and
so on.
I hope our students could be a little clear about their future and had a lot of fun there!

A party with Japanese university students

 

We had the monthly event the other day.

It was the last activity in this term.

I'm sorry for taking time to update the blog every time.

The event was awesome.

I myself really enjoyed it,though it's meant to entertain students,not teachers.

Teachers need to have fun,too!! I mean, to enjoy it with students.Don't you think so:-D?

There were some Japanese students introduced by a vocational school,Japan electronics college http://www.jec.ac.jp/ and others were people who directly contacted us to join  the party.

I don't have a chance to talk to Japanese university students nowadays,

so I got a little nervous to have a chat with them.

During the party, we introduced ourselves first.

We did it in a unique way to make it fun.

The students wrote down three things about themselves and we put the paper on a whiteboard

to ask them who wrote which one.

 

It was so easy to find our students' ones, but Japanese students made it very difficult and fun.

'I'm D.J.' ' I'm working for a convenient store called Seven-Eleven.'

'I'm muscular.' 'I was hungover yesterday.'I'm a pretty university student.'

I couldn't stop laughing.

 

↑Sawako-san and Shoji-san mimicing D.J.

After introducing ourselves, we had games.

The gesture game was the funniest!

  Marcel-san and Yuta-san were the best partners!
 Listnening to an instruction about a game.
 It may be just a game, but it's still important!!!
 Meri-san talking to our students
 Hi-san's gesture

Unhyung-san watching very closely

Winners!!!!

Shoji-san,Bogyeong-san,Ujjwal-san,Maiko-san,Sawako-san and Hi-san,congraturations!

Thank you for coming!

Our students have never talked such a lot with Japanese university students.
They seemed to have a lot of fun.

It was also good for them to keep talking in Japanese with someone apart from teachers.

I hope that we can have this kind of party regularly.

 

September 29th,2011

After the end-of-term test

The breeze in the morning and evening is cool and I feel a little of autum.

It was the day of the harvest moon yesterday.

I could see the full moon clearly.

In Japan and Korea, we see rabits pounding mochi in the full moon.

I heard that people see a person walking in that in Western countries.

Each county has each way of view.

It's very hot these days.The late summer heat is again severe this year.

It was 34 degree centigrade today in Tokyo.

When I was little, it was already cool in the middle of September, but it's getting hotter and hotter every year.

We had an end-of-term exam on September 9th.

The results were.. well , I don't mention it now.

Our students are already thinking about the autum breaks.

The bulletin board in front of the school is full of autum, too.

I made it Shiritori, a word game, but some of them are not quite autum words.

I'm thinking very hard to make and decorate this bulletin board every time.

The other day, I used pictures to introduce the expression'~to omoimasu' in the class.
Can you tell what they are?
They are all something you daily use.

1.    2.

3.    4.

5.   6.

I'll tell you the answers next time^^

September 13th,2011

Events

最近、学校関係でいろいろな講演や講習に行っています
先日9月1日は、池上彰さんコーディネーターで
「笑いと平和　~世界の小話（笑いのツボはこんなにちがう！？）」
という講演を聞きました
I've attended several events recently.
On September 1st, I went to a lecture ' Laugh and peace' by none other than Akira Ikegami.
He is a very famous jarnalist in Japan.

It was very interesting to hear some stories about people from other countries.
Some were social, had black humor and others were just simply fun.
I personally liked the one about Chinggis Khan.
It was like this.
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There was a child who does nothing but play all the time.
The father of the child said 'Why don't you stop playing and do something!?When Chinggis Khan was
about your age, he was already ruling this country!'
Then the child said 'Then when he was about your age, he was ruling about the half of the world!'

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I was thrilled by the child's counterattack:-D
All the stories were very fun.
I was also surprised at them speaking Japanese fluently.

And on September 4th, I went to a Wadaiko, Japanese drum, lesson for Japanese teachers.

I enjoyed it very much since I love festivals and had been interested in playing Japanese drums.
When the instructor played it, I could feel the vibration and rhythm through my body.
I wanted to shout 'Seiya!!!' like Japanese drummer usually say, but all I could do was just following
the rhythm.
My whole body is aching today:-(

September 5th, 2011