SILP Japanese 2013

I am making this post specifically for you because I’ve lost your email address…I’m so sorry 🙁

Just wanted to let you know that this Sunday for Obon Festival, if you can come to the library parking lot at 3:45pm, we’ll be there!

We will try to leave at 4pm with two cars. There is space for you to join us on one of the cars.

I hope you see this post!!!!

ごめんね！ぜひきてください。

あいこ

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!

Tags: Activity, happy hour, Ping pong

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

Tags: movie night, Obon Festival

I’ve added some more session hours for tomorrow and Tuesday.

Tutoring Schedule page

I would appreciate if you could sign-up in the open slots so that I know someone is coming, and that your classmates know too.

ありがとう！

Last year, when I was a TA at a college in IN, I had a student who loved Mononoke Hime, and she told me about this website that had the script, in Japanese and in English. She’d seen the movie ( and the script) so many times that she had almost remembered the words.

The movie uses a lot of old words, and commands and also words men would only use, but some of you might find it interesting.

Mononoke Hime Annoted Script

The script is not complete, and the student had been checking it but said that no one actually finished it.

Aiko would make an announcement again soon, but let her know if you have any preferences for our movie nights.

また　あした！

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！

I have updated the tutor schedule starting next week.

All sessions will be back-to-back, so I would appreciate if you could have questions and what you want to work on ready, so that we don’t waste time and have an effective session!

Please note that there will be only two walk-ins per day, and that they are differnt depending on the day.

Tutoring Schedule and Sing-up

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！

Tags: Activity, Ping pong

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！

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

Tags: Activity, Japanese food