Earthquake

Just a quick note to let everyone know that we're doing okay. There's just no way to know from day to day what part of our lives will be effected by the damage from the quake and speculating would be irresponsible. So we'd just ask everyone to keep Japan in your thoughts, especially those people in the north directly effected by the quake and tsunami.

The Red Cross always needs blood. Now would be a good time to give.

Visitors from Poland!

This past Tuesday we were lucky to host a dance group from Poland. They're here for a competition in Edogawa but they came by in the afternoon and joined us for some Japanese crafts and cooking. They tried their hand at origami and they cooked shiratama, a traditional Japanese sweet made from rice flower.

Everything turned out great and the students had a wonderful time meeting each other. The wonderful thing about a second language is that it doesn't limit you only to communicating with native speakers of that language, but also allows you to interact with anyone who's studied the same language. We were happy that our students had a chance to speak English with our guests from Poland and hopefully their world view has expanded that much more.

Big thanks to the cooking club for taking the time to teach us how to make such delicious food!!

Student Movie Presentation

Some of our students were asked to create short summaries of their favorite movies. The results were really creative and fun. Here's one:

Cinderella

Once upon a time there was a girl, Cinderella.















She lived with step-mother and three sisters.
They were bullies.

One night, good witch appeared and put magic on her.

Witch cast a spell. “Chi-chin-pui-pui-no-pui!”

Cinderella became a princess.

At last, she was taken to the ball and met the prince.











She was dancing with the prince merrily. But it was time that the magic would not work.

When she was running one of her slippers fell off.

The prince picked it up.

One day, the prince visited the village where Cinderella lived.

Checking all the ladies. No one could put on the slipper.

At last, he went to Cinderella’s house and he found the slipper fit Cinderella!!

The prince said, “You are my destiny!” They lived happily ever after.