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2010 Annual Seminar BBQ

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

Sorry to post these so late. There were a lot of photos and I just didn’t have the time to get to them.

These are photos from what has sort of become a tradition for my 2nd Year Seminar students: a visit to my house for a BBQ with my family, my wife and my sons Bynn and Ahn.

As you can see by the photos, there was a pretty good time going on there 🙂 :

2010 Year End photos

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

As usual as the year comes to and end (though we still have classes for this semester after the New Year begins) there are a few photos taken in my classes.

Here are a few taken during the last week of classes in December:

Fall is here! and classes are underway… yeah!!

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

Hi everybody!
It looks like another good semester is underway and week 2 is already almost finished. Time is flying by 🙂

I hope everyone enjoyed their summer vacation and is now ready to get back to school.

This semester is going to be a fun, and busy one.

Our Web English class feels almost like it’s starting over with about half of each group being new members. I hope we can still continue to move on with checking out some interesting sites for improving English skills, learning about the internet, and communicating with each other, our friends, and finding new friends.

I hope everyone has had a chance to update their Twitter usernames for the class lists and we can use Twitter for staying in touch throughout the week between classes. Keep an eye out for the updated class lists. I should have those posted soon. I’ll let you know and then you’re expected to check the list and follow all of the students from your class.

Solution to a hot day for class?

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Ice Cream!!! Yeah!!

Today was another (of several 🙁 ) hot, humid, and generally uncomfortable days late in the semester.

With World Cup winding down, and after the hard hit the class took when Japan bowed out last week, I was all set to go at it again today, but it seems that several students thought it was a holiday (sorry, Ayana, I know you had a good reason for being away today! Thanks for letting me know!) or it was just too hot to come to a 3rd Period class…

So, today, to cool things off a bit we took a little ice cream break. Not great for my diet, but was fun, and refreshing! Sorry, Natsuki was late, and I somehow missed getting Chisato into the photo 🙁

Here’s the photo I took along with an apology. It seems I missed someone when the photo was taken, so … Chisato, I’m sorry you’re not in the picture!

Ice Cream was the right thing for this hot day!

Ice Cream was the right thing for this hot day!

2010 4th Year Seminar students’ group photo

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

Today we had our group photo for the university album taken of the 4th year students’ seminar class.

I was really happy that almost everyone could make it and that the weather was clear and sunny (although that wind was  really, really cold!)

Too bad that Eri didn’t make it for the photo, and I haven’t heard from her yet. I hope she’s okay.

These photos were taken outside the Shi-bon at the Nagakute Campus.

If you click on the photos, you can view the image in full size (it’s pretty big though so it might take a little while to load.

Anyway, it’s a nice picture, and a good group of students.

4th Year Seminar Students and Professor Williams - 2010 (not shown - Eri Ueda)

4th Year Seminar Students and Professor Williams - 2010 (not shown - Eri Ueda)

4th Year Seminar Students and Professor Williams 2010 number 2 (not shown - Eri Ueda)

4th Year Seminar Students and Professor Williams 2010 number 2 (not shown - Eri Ueda)