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| Mormon Missionaries visited our class. In the pictures we are playing a game which is popular among young people in Japan. The students knew the game quite well and were very good at it while I blew it all the time. Many thanks to Elder Bushman and Elder Sutcliffe. | |
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| We went to "Monja Restaurant". Monja is a Japanese food cooked on a hot plate to celebrate the graduation of the third-year-students. They ate and ate endlessly. It started at 5 o'clock and we came back to our school at about 9 in the evening | |
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| Christmas party is our annual event. We enjoyed playing games, eating and drinking. | |
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| Tamami, who is studying in New York, helped me in class while she was home for the holidays. |
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| In the right picture, we are making regular bodies in math class. Making patterns, cutting them and gluing them together. | |
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| Paul visited us again this year. He stayed at my place for a few days and met my students. In the evening, adult students had dinner a drinking party with him. Many thanks to Paul!! | |
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| We had a Christmas party this year too. Two Mormon missionaries came as Santa Clause. Thank you for your cooperation!! | |
| July 2002 | |
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| I told them not to do peace sign. But they did anyway. Somehow Japanese people like to show a peace sign when they take pictures. | |
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"WHAT'S
SPECIAL ABOUT THIS CLASS ??"
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YOU CAN ASK AS MANY QUESTIONS AS YOU LIKE, WITHOUT FEELING
EMBARRASSED, BECAUSE OF THE SMALL CLASS SIZE . This is especially important for junior-high students who can ask such questions when they may hesitate to do at school or at some big cram school. Although this is an English class, they can study math here, too. |
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I UNDERSTAND WHEN A STUDENT SAYS, "I DON'T UNDERSTAND". When I was a student in elementary school, I had trouble understanding fractions and had to depend upon my parents for extra help. I was not good at mathematics and I used to secretly count on all my fingers and toes under Kotatsu [Japanese foot warmer with a quilt over it ] so as not to be seen by my parents. I was a slow learner and I always had difficulty understanding new subjects from the beginning. That's why I understand the reason when a student doesn't understand. And that's why students find my classes easy to understand. |
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I HELP THE STUDENTS WHO MAKE AN EFFORT TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY. As I have had to try harder than other people to keep up, I have a habit to support the people who are trying hard, as well. |
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I SHOW HOW TO MASTER ENGLISH IN JAPAN I never lived abroad. It's not easy to master English while living in Japan, but I can teach how I did it. |