Jul 07 2013
By the way, for those who weren’t at the Ping Pong finals, SILP Japanese won the 2nd prize!!!! いえーい！Good job Kento for the first round, and Takeuchi-sensei and Noguchi-sensei for the finals! 
We also had a great time on Wednesday. Thanks for coming guys 🙂 Hope you had a chance to practice Japanese!
Jul 07 2013
みなさん、おひさしぶりです。
I hope you all enjoyed the four day weekend and had enough time to study for tomorrow’s test…!
I wanted to announce to you next week’s events:
Wednesday: Movie Night! (6pm~ MG100)
Image courtesy of Wikipedia
“Kikujiro tells the story of a young boy searching for his mother during his summer vacation. The film is mostly divided into smaller chapters, listed as entries in the boy’s summer vacation diary. Kitano’s inspiration for the character (not the film) was his own father, Kikujiro Kitano, a gambler who struggled to feed his family and pay the rent.” (Wikipedia)
I haven’t watched this before, but according to Rie, the music is very nice. The story takes place in Japan so you will probably see some of the real Japanese lifestyle, what Japan looks like etc.
Here’s the trailer (sorry they didn’t have one in English…)
Sunday: Obon Festival! (12~7pm in Seaside/ meeting time TBD)
Okay, guys, you do not want to miss this one. This is one of the biggest events we’ve planned for this program. Obon is….here’s a great description by Wiki!
“Obon (お盆) or just Bon (盆) is a Japanese Buddhist custom to honor the spirits of one’s ancestors. This Buddhist-Confucian custom has evolved into a family reunion holiday during which people return to ancestral family places and visit and clean their ancestors’ graves, and when the spirits of ancestors are supposed to revisit the household altars. It has been celebrated in Japan for more than 500 years and traditionally includes a dance, known as Bon-Odori.” (Wikipedia)
So, Obon is very important to Japanese and a big summer time event. Boys and girls dress in Yukata (a casual version of Kimono. The one Rie and I were wearing for the orientation) and dance Bon-odori or oftentimes just end up eating and drinking…:D Anyway, it is very cultural and you definitely should participate in this one to understand some of our Japanese spirit.
To get an idea of it, here’s a youtube video of a random obon festival in Japan:
This is in Seaside so we will need volunteers for driving their cars again. I will email you all again on this.
I hope you all can make it to both!
よろしくおねがいします。
Aiko
Jul 02 2013
みなさん、こんばんは！
日曜日（にちようび）のサンノゼトリップの写真（しゃしん）をのっけます。
どうぞもらってください！
Jun 27 2013
こんにちは。あいこです。
We are starting our Ping Poing Tournament with the whole SILP and ESL playing against languages!
Who is good at playing ping pong?
Japanese is playing against English team next Tuesday, July 2nd at 12:00 pm in the Holland Center! If we win the tournament, we get a nice prize! woohoo!
Sign up for the tournament now by clicking the link below!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1uET-2J9l4T30rxQWEIe8w_Fp5A9YYafzSzzGb0TrwL4/viewform
どうぞよろしくー！
Jun 26 2013
金曜日(きんようび)、一緒(いっしょ)に昼(ひる)ごはんを食(た)べませんか？
I wanted to do this last week, but we will start this week.
I don’t know where you’ve been eating your lunch / spending your lunch break, but how about we eat together and chat in Japanese for a little every Friday?
We will meet at Samson, or maybe sit outside on the grass (City Hall Lawn), 12:15~12:45.
For this week, I think it will be sunny, so let’s meet outside McCone (outside the building of where my tutoring cubicle is) and we will head to the lawn in front of the City Hall, right across the street.
じゃ、また！
Jun 25 2013
みなさん、こんにちは〜！
おげんきですか？
So this weekend on Sunday, I am planning a little trip to San Jose and visit below places:
-Japanese Market, Mitsuwa
-Kinokuniya (Japanese bookstore)
-Daiso (Japanese all $1.5 shop)
(-Karaoke..? up to you!)
-and most importantly…eat delicious ramen for lunch!!
And for now, I would like to know…
-how many of you can join this trip?
and
-how many can offer rides to get there?
Please respond to these questions by commenting to this post! よろしくお願いします:)
Aiko
Jun 20 2013
みなさん、何がみたいですか？ (What do you guys want to watch?)
Do you have any specific movies/drama that you’d like to watch? According to the survey, Japanese drama was more popular than movies. So I’m trying to choose which drama is of more interest to you all right now. But if we’re doing dramas, considering that we only have 7 movie nights in the program, it might be hard to finish watching all the episodes. But still I’d like your opinions.
So please give me ideas and comment on:
let me knooooooow! 🙂 (asap so that I can prepare them on time!)
愛子(Aiko)
Jun 20 2013
みなさんこんにちは！明日のアクティビティの連絡です。
Hello everyone! I wanted to remind you again about tomorrow’s activity.
ピザパーティです！SILP全体でより交流を深めましょう。
It’s a pizza party! Get to know each other more with the whole SILP members!
I might come a little bit late but please enjoy the event and make more friends across different languages. また明日！
Jun 18 2013
みなさん、こんにちは！Hello everyone!
今日はファーマーズマーケットに参加ありがとうございました。Thanks for coming to Farmers Market today!
今回は、これから８週間のアクティビティの仮のスケジュールを連絡します。Here is a tentative activity schedule for the next 8 weeks.
何か質問があれば連絡してくださいね。Please contact me if you have any questions.
Jun 17 2013
Hi everyone. So here goes our very first activity! Every Tuesday from 4pm to 8pm, there is a farmers market on Alverado Street in Downtown Monterey. Here’s the link: http://www.oldmonterey.org/farmers.html
There is a Japanese food stand where you can buy different kinds of Donburi or Sushi run by Japanese. Why not take a walk down there all together try or buy some of the food, say hi to them in Japanese?
Please meet me in front of the library at 6pm. It’ll probably take about less than an hour. See you all then! 🙂
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