Class Party

Hello! This is MARI!!!I would like to talk about my English class here in Australia.

I study English with people from other countries and today, there was aspecial farewell party in my class.

It was so enjoyable!!! My classmateswere very kind and I spent two hours pleasantly at the cafeteria.

KONOMI and GAKU, my classmate of TRAJAL, are always taking care of me.

Thankyou ~~~ (^▽^)

This farewell party was for DEEP, who is from India and helped me a lot in class.

I will miss her when she changes the class (><)And my teacher, ISABELLA, is punctual but so kind and understanding teacher. That’s why I love her and my classmates!!

I enjoyed the partyvery much.

And now, I’m hungry though I ate a lot of foods and dinner.

Oh my god…I don’t know what to do (><)

Mari

＊♪＊ TOU-NICHI-BUN (vol.2) ＊♪＊

Last week, we gave an college entrance briefing for students. We invited 2students who graduated from Tonichibun. They spoke about their studying experience and the best way to learn Japanese (especially the entrance exam for Japanese University for International Students), English, essays, and so on.
The students listened very seriously and they seemed to be very impressed by their speeches.
J.Fujisaki

The Attendees:
(right-hand side) The students majoring in Global Japanese Studay at Meiji University
(left-hand side) The students majoring in Business Administration at Gakushuin University

2008 Guam Internship Returnee Round-table Conference

Trajal students who participated in the “Guam Internship Program” deserve credit for their impressive work. Therefore our chairman and principal praised them for their achievements.



“A little nervous, facing the big shots!? ”



“Enjoying an exchange of internship experiences.”



“Our chairman and principal speaks about the value of self-improvement”

“Everyone looks sooooooo serious. Just smile!!”

“Everyone said they wished they could have a conference like this every week!”
“Just kidding!!”

Greetings from Seattle

Greetings from Seattle…
We are off to an exciting start in Seattle!

The students are adjusting well to their home stay life and school life.

They are making new friends in HTC, at Edmonds and Shoreline Community Colleges,

and in the Talk Time conversation circle at church.

On field trips the students have toured Seattle,

visited Safeco Field and watched Ichiro hit a homerun in a Mariners baseball game.

The Edmonds students will also visit University of Washington later in May.

Many students visited the amazing tulip fields,

and some watched the American Indian powwow at Edmonds.

The Japan Culture Club at Shoreline gave a nice welcome party for the HTC students.
The weather has been cool, so the flowers of April – cherry blossoms, tulips, and azaleas have lasted into May, and now rhododendrons are also in full bloom, so both campuses are now very beautiful. The weather will be getting warmer this week – mid-May – just on time for the start of the festival season. This weekend many students will check out the University District Street Fair.

We had a joint Edmonds-Shoreline bowling tournament on May 1, which was a lot of fun.

Taihei Shimizu of Japan Hotel School had the best score.

A lot of students have begun doing sports in their free time – badminton, basketball, baseball, aerobics and running. About 30 students are taking a scuba diving class, and they will begin diving in June.
Classes and English study are a challenge and of course take a lot of time, but the students seem to be enjoying learning new words and expressions, and trying to use their new skills outside of the classroom.

- Neal Colodner, Program Director, Trajal Hospitality & Tourism College, Seattle USA

" 30 mile Overnight Walk "

April 29, "SHOWA"day(a National Holiday), at 18:00,
everyone is ready to go!!
It's a pleasant day for long walk . \(^_^)


After 2hrs. of walking,
everyone was still smiling at this point in Yoyogi Park. (^o^)/



Second stop was Ebisu Garden Place,
third stop at Tokyo Tower,
everyone shouted for joy when they saw the tower's lights go out !!
Finally, it's time for midnight snack at the fourth stop in Hibiya Park.
The Fifth stop was a museum in Ueno Park,
then the final stop at Sunshine City in Ikebukuro,
almost everyone started the last lap with some relief. (*o*)


Teachers fixed Tonjiru(pork miso soup) for everyone.
It was soooooo good, but we were exhausted. (>_<)


The sense of achievement revitalised everyone. \(^_^)/

♪＊♪ TOKYO JAPANESE LANGUAGE & CULTURE COLLEGE ♪＊♪

Our school name is “ TOU-NICHI-BUN”！

Do you know what does the word mean?
It is short for “Tokyo Nihongo(Japanese) Bunka(Culture) Gakkou(School)”. We tell students to call our school like this.
I am very excited about introducing our school.
We are teaching Japanese language for foreign students who are from Korea, Taiwan, Thai, Hong Kong, China, etc. and they study 5days(Mon.-Fri.) a week. The classes are divided by the level of proficiency in Japanese, and now in this term, there are 14 classes in our school. The number of our students are 183 and the number of teachers are 29(including 5 full-time teachers).
For further information, please take a look at our website!

Our school data is as follows:

School name: TOKYO JAPANESE LANGUAGE & CULTURE COLLEGE
Address: 4-6-6 Higashi-Nakano, Nakano-ku, Tokyo 164-0003
Phone: +81-3-3360-4771
Fax: +81-3-3360-4775
URL: http://www.trajal.ac.jp/jlc/
E-Mail: jlc@trajal.ac.jp
Route from the nearest station:
5 minutes walk from Higashinakano Station, JR･Toei-Oedo Line.
5 minutes walk from Ochiai Station, TokyoMetro Line.

J. Fujisaki



Sports Festival 2009/04/17



Party ! 2009/04/17

G'day from Melbourne!

It has been 16 years since we opened Melbourne campus in Australia.
Our 2009 students arrived in Melbourne from Japan early April. They live with Australian families, study English and other subjects for 10 months.
During Orientation week, we took them out to famous spots in Victoria. They met Koalas, Kangaroos, Wallabies and Little Penguins in Phillip Island, also spent 3 days in Farm Camp on the Great Ocean Road, where they came close to great nature of Australia. It was the time they think “We really are in Australia!!” Their adventure has just started!
At the beginning of the program, we have Welcome party every year. Here is the report of the party this year by Yuri, one of our students from Osaka.
Ryoko Yoshiura – Director of Trajal Australia

Hi! This is Yuri.
We are going to tell you about our Aussie lives on this blog.
We held the Welcome Party at the school. We invited our host families.
Mari and I gave a speech wearing same dress.

“ One month has already passed since we arrived in Australia. It's only one month, but
we've got many experiences, of course, both good and bad.”

We wanted to amuse and touch everyone.

Then...

WE DID IT!!

Everyone said it was a very good speech. We were glad to hear that.

After the speech, we enjoyed our dinner talking with our families.

Every student wore a party dress, yukata or suit, so they looked very beautiful!

It was a very good party :)

See you!

Yuri