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Halloween Cookies

Wednesday, October 31st, 2012

This week is Halloween, and though I don’t really have Halloween parties in class, students bring snacks and Halloween things to class and we eat and play while we do activities that are related to the holiday.

This year was a good year for Halloween in my classes. Tuesday classes were one day before, and Wednesday class  was on Halloween. That helps since lots of students are pretty focused on the holiday for that day.

One of my students at Chukyo actually made the cookies she brought to class, and that was really nice. Very nice. She’s a good kid 😉 She brought 3 cookies for each student (I think there are 10 students in that class), and they were wrapped and placed in a small paper bag for each person.

The cookies were delicious, and they looked really cute.

Here are a couple of shots. Sorry they’re a little blurry. I ate them before I realized the photos I took weren’t very clear.

Thanks, Kumi!

See, we’re serious sometimes…

Monday, October 1st, 2012

Last week kicked off a new semester for me at both Aichi Shukutoku and at Chukyo University.

We of course jumped right in with the hard, serious work and didn’t mess around at all.

Since I know how hard that is to believe for everyone, I thought I should provide some proof of that.

Here it is:

What? Not enough proof for you!?! 😉

 

Back to School… again! ;-)

Thursday, September 27th, 2012

Hey everybody, it’s that time… again, to get back to class.

This semester is going to be a busy one for Web English with 3 sections for me and all of them completely full.

I’m very sorry to hear that several students from last semester were unable to register and get into the class for the second semester. I really wish that wasn’t the case, but it is not up to me at all when it comes to who gets into the class.

This semester will be very similar to last semester in the structure of class since we’ll be continuing to learn and use internet vocabulary and finding and using sites that are fun and useful for learning and using English to better your skills.

Anyway, I am looking forward to it, and I’m ready to get things going.

Let’s have a great semester!

My new Clark Kent look

Thursday, June 7th, 2012

Glasses as fashion are a fairly new thing, especially for them just being for the sake of fashion and not to help you see better – just look better?
You see NBA stars and others these days sporting big frames with either plain glass lenses or even no lenses at all.
Some of my students wear them, too.
I took a photo of me a while ago wearing some glasses that gave me sort of the Clark Kent look, but I had the chance to try some different ones a couple of days ago.
I’m not sure I’m really the super hero type, but I do believe my ‘secret identity’ self is a good cover 😉

Here’s a photo of me with the glasses:
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2012 Seminar Students group photo

Thursday, May 17th, 2012

Here are the pictures we took today of our 4th year Seminar Class. Almost everyone made it, but unfortunately Yu-chan couldn’t be there ;-(