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Last week, sorry for the delay, I had my Common Room Activity for students at Chukyo University in the British and American Cultures Studies. It is pretty much always fun, but sometimes there aren’t a lot of students who come and participate.

This time that wasn’t an issue 😉 We had lots. Maybe 16 or so? Several of the international students also came and played along. The first semester is usually Boggle. It’s not a game for English learners. It’s a game English speakers play, but also good for learners.

I have some simple rules. I am the final judge on whether something is a word or not. The dictionary is full of ‘words’ that no one knows or uses or come from places other than native English speaking countries.

You get a lot of fun ones with these groups, too, hehheh.

Here are a couple of pix I promised to post. They’re not so great, but they’re all I have.

So yesterday was the graduation ceremony for my last class of seminar students. It is always one of those bittersweet days. I’m so very proud of all of them for sticking it out and doing there best. It has been a great 3 years (they start as 2nd year students).

We had a graduation party at the Nagoya Garden Palace last night with all of the students from our department – also the last year for this department as it’s been changed now and combined with several others so there are no more entering freshmen for this department.

Here’s a photo of the group. Almost everyone made it, so that was really nice to get to see everybody one last time.