Surprise for my birthday

Hello everyone! I’m Shige. Nice to meet you!! Sorry. I was really busy so I didn’t write Koala blog. Three month have passed since I came to Australia and I feel homesick for Japan. When I came to Australia, I was very nervous. Because I couldn’t understand my host family’s English. But nowadays, I’m becoming to understand English.

Anyway, I became twenty-years old. This is special year in Japan. My host family held the birthday party. And, my mother's dish is very delicious. It prepared from early morning.



After lunch, host father's handmade cake was gotten with some present. Then we played billiards and it had continued until night. Many people celebrated for my birth day. I could have a wonderful birth day and I will never forget this 20th birth day. Next time, I want to surprise someone.




Shige

Holiday in Melbourne

I am Masa. This is the second time to update blog after the second holiday. The holiday is for a trip, so I had a trip in Melbourne.

I wanted to go to a trip far away, but I had a problem with money. It was a big problem, but then I asked myself."Do I really know about Melbourne?" then, I remembered a conversation with my host father. He said to me "I like Melbourne than Sidney! Melbourne is a good place for sightseeing in Oz!

The trip began from breakfast. It was like my purpose of this trip. There are a lot of cafes on the street. It is my ideal of foreign country. We had a beautiful breakfast there and we checked our plane. We did not need to care about time specially.

After having breakfast, we went to Carlton garden. Why I wanted to see it was just because it is on the World Heritage. I did not know the details about it, as I did not learn it before. A bit regrettable! Of cause, it was a beautiful building, but when I felt cold by cool winds, we wanted to go inside of the building.

After a while, we went to a museum behind the garden. "Something" of limited exhibition is our purpose. It is in gold from Egypt. I never dreamed of seeing Tutankhamen really when I departed from Japan. A lot of exhibits send out godliness.
We saw a lot of exhibits such as model of some animals, insects, dinosaurs and more at the museum not only Tutankhamen. It was interesting, but these are parts of exhibits, so we could not see all.
We decided to eat diner because of the darkness outside. We went to the same lane as in the morning, but atmosphere was different. Narrow street was filled with energy and staff worked busily. Again it was my ideal world of foreign country. We had a good time with feeling a successful trip. It was very fun!

We spent for 2days to explore in the city, so this story continues but I will conclude this blog as it is a long article now.

Masa

At Safeco Field

〝 Ichiro!〝
An American man whose seat was ahead of us on the right shouted at the Japanese player on his back. We had bleachers seats behind the right field, so we were able to see Ichiro’s back very well.
This “We” means 15 Hospitality Tourism College students, 15 Hospitality Tourism College Osaka students, a tour coordinator from ISS of the Edmonds Community College and two Japanese teachers (including me). We visited Seattle for a two-weeks short-term studying abroad programme and I was their escort. Yes, it was a business trip to me. The baseball game? It was Mariners vs. Rangers and, of course, I had to be with the student, didn’t I?
As the player did not react to him at all, the man did a palms up gesture and happened to turn around to us. Naturally he did not know more than 30 Japanese were watching him, so he was surprised to see us first. Then he smiled to us saying, “OK, guys, let’s call Ichiro together!”. Well, why not? So, after his calling out “One, two, three”, we shouted “Ichiro!!” a couple of times and we successfully made him glace over his shoulder! The poor player did not know what was happening, but we were so happy with his attention.
The American man left before the 9th inning started. The score was 0 to 4 and the Mariners were losing. However, before his leaving, he said to us “You guys are awesome!”. Though I said “You, too!” back to him, I regretted not saying “So you are” which can be more smart. English learning will never end.

Kazuko Sato
Hospitality & Tourism College Tokyo

＊♪＊ TOU-NICHI-BUN (vol.31) ＊♪＊

Bonjour!

I am writing this Trajal Blog from TOU-NICHI-BUN （東日文）every time, but I have never shown my face. So, today, I want to introduce myself and my nice “helmet”. I am Junko Fujisaki, Japanese language teacher of Tokyo Japanese Language & Culture College, and I’ve been teaching here for 8 years.

Today, I’ll tell you about this beautiful round helmet. Our company lent this glossy strong helmet to every staff the other day. We have prepared to cope with earthquakes properly. We also received the “KANPAN” (hardtack biscuits）!

Junko Fujisaki
Tokyo Japanese Language & Culture College

Sydney Trip

Hey guys! I’m Emiko. We are having holiday now. Then I went to Sydney with Yuki on 6th to 9th in July. Melbourne was rainy but Sydney was sunny all day and it was such a beautiful day! So now, I will tell you about this trip but it is so long! Please don’t be bored.



Sydney was very busy! So it seemed like Tokyo. Transportation is convenient and easy. It was not difficult for us. But we didn’t think about the plan for this trip! Then 1st day we went to Bondi Beach in the morning. There is a famous beach for a surfer so I could see the surfer’s spite in winter! But they were cool. I want to come here to look for a handsome guy in summer again! Then we went to Koala Park. It was very good! We could touch a koala and play with kangaroos. They were really cute. It was nicer than zoo! ha ha! Yuki said the koala is pretty and it has a good smell. I couldn’t believe it because it is said that a koala has a bad smell.



2nd day we wore the Australia jumper which we bought the day before. We said“good morning”to Opera House, and then we went to Greater Blue Mountains Area which is a world heritage. Luckily we could pay no money because we went there by ourselves. It was amazing and huge! I don’t know how to explain and probably you cannot know anything from the picture. If I have to explain about that, I may say just “fantastic”. So we said “やばい！”all the time. Then we explored in the bush about 2hours. It was so fun! But of course we were exhausted.




We couldn’t finish only that because Sydney never sleeps like Tokyo which was why we stayed in the city till late at night. Firstly we went to Star City which is the biggest casino in Sydney. It was the first time for me by the way. We didn’t play Casino but just looking so we could enjoy just looking! Good for money! And we could find a good looking guy who is one of the coolest guys I met in Aus. Oh dear… So, of course we had a nice time there.
Then we walked in the city. There were a lot of bars and night clubs, and it was strict on age limit, so police men stood at an entrance all bars and night clubs. It was scary~~. But we tried hard and went in there! Well…what should I say.. We couldn’t find a cool boy or a cute girl. But anyway! Everyone seemed having a good time! And also we had a good time. We went back to the hotel at 3am!



3rd day we got up lat, then we said “hello!” to Opera House. The day was Saturday, so there were a lot of people and markets at some places. We went one in the city. It was crowded and bustling. Then we went to Taronga Zoo which is one of the biggest in Australia. Well, OK, just went to the front of there. Then we found “sky safari” which is a ropeway. We took it which was free! It was a nice view from there. We were happy!



Finally we went to St Mary's Cathedral which is a big church. There was a big chessboard and big chessmen in the park that is close to the church. I want to play the chess there someday. In the church it was so beautiful so I felt tensed.



We could go to fashionable cafes and have good meals not only sightseeing. Um~~~ I can’t tell you everything!! We didn’t pay a lot of money for this trip as you know. But this trip was so fun and we had a pretty good time! We could fill our memory in Sydney!



Thanks a lot Yuki!
And thank you for reading!! See you sooooooooon!

Trajal Blogs from Seattle (June, 2011)

June 5: Skimboard with Rock Talk friends

This first weekend of June we are finally getting a taste of summer weather. About 25℃ under blue skies, some Shoreline students went to Richmond Beach to attempt skimboarding under the direction of Roger (pastor of Rock of Ages Church). Skimboarding is low-tide surfing, or hydroplaning on a thin wooden board in shallow water. Roger was impressed how well the students did on their first day of skimboarding.

Neal Colodner (Seattle)

As always, the first year students are showing rapid improvement!!

It is already summer in Tokyo. It’s hot and humid day after day.
The first year students develop close friendships with their classmates.
First year students（daytime course）have improved their skill in making balloon sculpture dramatically in the last two months.
They first made simple animals, and then took the challenge of making complicated dolls.



This is the stage performance by the first year students (evening course).
They sang and danced along to the AKB48（beautiful girls vocal group）’s music.
We can tell just by looking that they have been growing and developing day by day.
　
Don’t miss the next Blog!!

Satoshi Harigai
Theme park Course
Trajal Hospitality & Tourism College

Sports Day

The annual Sports Day was held at the Todoroki arena in Kawasaki city on May 27.
It had been raining on and off the whole day but all the students become excited about the games.
Dodge-ball, Basketball, Futsal, Tug-of-war were the events of this year and the competition was between the First year students and Second year students. 　
The victory went to the Second year students but all of them seemed to enjoy this annual event.

Yoshiyuki Sugawara

Public Relations Department

Hospitality & Tourism College

Enjoying USJ

35 foreign students with 4 teachers went to USJ(Universal Studios Japan) on June 25th. USJ is in Osaka City and one of the most famous and popular theme Parks in Japan. It was a beautiful day, but too hot and humid like mid summer. Most of foreign students have been to USJ once at least , but they all had very enjoyable time.

Hidekazu SUZUKI
Hospitality & Tourism College Osaka

TRAJAL FESTIVAL

“TRAJAL FESTIVAL”,the most exiting event in our college, was held on June 10th.
The main competition of it is “Class Performance”. Each class, 31 classes in our college, had been practicing their dances and making their costumes for more than a month. There are 69 foreign students from 9 countries. While they took part in the event as class members and prepared“Class Performance”, they were able to make friends with our Japanese students.

Hidekazu SUZUKI
Hospitality & Tourism College Osaka

Welcome party

Hello! I'm Ayaka

I'm sorry to be late to update Blog.
Since we came to Australia, a month has passed very quickly.
On the 13th of May we had the Welcome Party at school.
We invited our host family.






Every student wore a dress, yukata or suit.
So everyone looked very beautiful and cool!



Kiyo,Kasumi and Kaho made a good speech as representatives of the students.
They sometimes made us laugh.（＾＾）/*
We had a good time and we made new memories with our host family.
We enjoy Australia!!

See you next time.