"Hospitality charity-per-click" program

We have established a "Hospitality charity-per-click" program.




We have established a "Hospitality charity-per-click" program to help less fortunate children across the globe. This is a joint venture of professionals in the Japanese tourism industry and the Travel Journal Educational Foundation.

What is "hospitality"?

Generally the term "Hospitality" should translate to mean "compassion" or having a "hospitality mindset" in Japanese, but the concept is not prevalent among Japanese.

Travel Journal Educational Foundation established the Hospitality Promotion Committee in order to promote the concept of "Hospitality". Today, many corporations embrace our concept of "Hospitality".

You can raise money for the "National Committee of UNICEF Japan" by just clicking a button to contribute to this cause of helping unfortunate children worldwide at no cost to you.

Please click the button below to help this good cause. Hospitality charity-per-click site. Hospitality charity-per-click site (Japanese Website)


If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to "reply" to this e-mail.

Hospitality Promotion Committee
Satoshi Tsukada tsukada@trajal.ac.jp

Restaurant Orita’s

All Melbourne students have 4-week work experience in November.

We have good relationships with hotels, restaurants and travel agents, theme parks etc. in Melbourne, Gold Coast and other areas in Australia.

They are willing to take our students for 4 weeks and give them hands-on experiences in the real world!

Restaurant Orita’s is one of them, and very popular work place for our students, as Mr.Orita and his staff are knowledgeable and always passionate for educating young people in the industry, also students can have very nice staff meal every day!!

http://www.oritas.com.au/

Some of this year students couldn’t wait until November, so they decided to have lunch in Orita’s and meet Chef Orita and his staff there.

The other afternoon, we went for lunch to a Japanese restaurant “Orita’s” in South Yarra. Kaihei, who is our senior and studied abroad in Melbourne, came back here to study in this restaurant. Orita’s is located in a little complicated place. This restaurant is wonderful for not only modern but also taking over ”Wa” Japanese style.

As we arrived there, Mr.Orita and Kaihei escorted us and Mr.Orita told us lots of stories, for example, the story of his days when he worked at a hotel. I ate “age tofu”, grilled fish, and dessert which use apricots. These apricots were gowned by Mr.Orita!! Flowers which are decorated in the restaurant were also raised and arranged by Mr.Orita!

We had Japanese food and used chopsticks for the first time since we arrived in Australia….and finally, he gave us his handmade persimmons! The lunch was really delicious and we had a very good time!
Mr.Orita and Kaihei, thank you very much for your kindness!!

Yuko (Melbourne)

＊♪＊ TOU-NICHI-BUN (vol.4) ＊♪＊

“Oishi~~~!” (It’s delicious!)
It was a great day for us. A graduate came to see us around 5:00p.m., the time when we really feel like having some sweets to give us some energy. She is senior at a Confectionery Technical College and has sometimes brought this kind of cake she has made as part of her practical training of the college.
This time she brought us a whole cake and it was a birthday cake made for decoration practice.
Doesn’t it look appetizing?
The teachers all looked happy and she is showing her perfect cake proudly.

J.Fujisaki

Tokyo Japanese Lnaguage & Culture College

Quarter Break

Wow! Time really flies. It feels like this year’s students just arrived in Seattle recently, but already it is Quarter Break – a brief vacation (10 days for Shoreline campus, 13 days for Edmonds campus) between Spring Quarter and Summer Quarter. Most of our students use this vacation to try their first American travel experience as individuals. They are now traveling all over America – New York, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Vancouver and Victoria in Canada too. Next week I hope they will show me their photos of Disneyland, the Statue of Liberty, the Golden Gate Bridge, etc.

In their Spring Quarter classes, the students learned how to make their own travel reservations in English on the Internet, and they learned some background information for major tourist destinations. Also, we provided many cautions, such as how to avoid getting property stolen, and to never trust strangers. Of course, some of them will have trouble in their travels – missing a flight, taking the wrong train or bus, dishonest taxi drivers, losing a cell phone or camera, etc., but hopefully nothing too terrible.

Naturally, we teachers worry about them, but we realize that this individual travel is a very important part of their education and maturation process. I hope that as the students use the practical information and English that they had studied in class during their travels, they will appreciate the education they are getting at in the HTC program. But to be realistic, they are probably having too much fun and excitement to realize that.

There are some students who are not traveling far this vacation – just staying in the Seattle area and making short trips in Washington State. Some of these students went river-rafting on the Wenatchee River last weekend. Some will go to the Olympic Peninsula this week to enjoy the mountains, lakes, waterfalls and rainforests. And this weekend many students will make a trip to Eastern Washington for a “star-viewing” party; they will go to a dark area far from the city to enjoy the night sky, with many people from other states and countries. (I hope it is not cloudy!)

Well, I hope everyone is safe and having a good time, but also saving some energy for Summer Quarter – there is a lot more to learn and do.

Neal Colodner
June 17,2009
(Seattle)

Trajal On-site Training for Selected Guam Students

Selected high school students from Guam came to study at Trajal on the 2nd and the 3rd of June,2009. Even though it was a last-minute agreement, we kindly accepted the request.

I apologize for the wrong date indicated below the photos.

Guam students took Trajal on-site training on the 2nd and the 3rd of June,2009.

They were completely into their first experience doing sign language.
They managed to introduce themselves in sign language.


The boys fell in love with the girls who were in uniform!?


They had lunch at a Japanese restaurant.
The girls drank an egg boiled in hot spring waters, and said that they had a strange feeling in their throat.


We went to Asakusa, Sensoji(temple) and the students bought a uniquely shaped bottle of cider called Ramune.

At the Bridal class, they learned about the Japanese betrothal ceremony.
They were amazed by the symbolic gifts such as the dried squid, thin strip of dried abalone, and a long white piece of hemp.

At the Hotel class, they practiced how to serve a guest using a folk and spoon.
This was unexpectedly difficult.


Managing director and chief editor described the weekly Travel Journal in fluent English.
They were surprised how the Travel Journal is deeply related to the Guam.


They were in a royal mood at the mockup seat in airline English class.


We all had lunch at a revolving sushi restaurant.
We would have been over budget had the students not been lost in conversation.


They spoke on a variety of topics with Tokyo Japanese Language & Culture College students.
Surprisingly, they all spoke fluent English!!


If we were lucky enough to be chosen we got to have a massage.
But that was just a pipe dream.


Quiz battle between Guam students and Trajal Guam returnee students.


They really did a good job!! It ended in a draw.


Time flies when you having fun.
We look forward to getting together again soon!!


Toshi
Trajal Hospitality & Tourism College (Tokyo)

＊♪＊ TOU-NICHI-BUN (Vol.3) ＊♪＊

We had a special class (CA-level) on the 28th of May. The purpose of this kind of class is for overseas students to introduce recipes of dishes from their own countries to Japanese guests. (We invited 4 Japanese guests.)

The students worked hard to prepare delicious dishes and the guests seemed happy to join the class.

“How is the taste?” “Very good! And very good explanations in Japanese!” “…but, it’s very hot!!!”
Yes, I understand the comments because Korean cuisine uses a very spicy seasoning called kochujyang”.
This day’s menu --- Seafood Korean pancake , Chinese steamed shrimp meat dumplings, Stir-fried beef and chicken.

Are you interested in this special class? Next time, we will be going the class in August this year!
If you want to join the class , please contact us! (jlc@trajal.ac.jp)

J. Fujisaki

A Wanderer

Last week in my 2nd year classes we started studying how far, how long, how much questions that I have used in traveling. I told my students that I have used the juhachi-kippu during school breaks for many years.

They asked me what cities I had gone to. They were very surprised when they heard how many places I had visited and were very, very surprised that I had used the juhachi-kippu to go to Fukuoka using just a one-day tiket. In each class, a student asked me how long it took me and I answered "22 and a half hours!" They couldn't believe it! Another student asked "How many times I had changed trains." The answer; something like 15times(I can't remenber the exact number.)

They all probably thought their teacher was a bit crazy! Some students have also taken advantage of this very cheap travelling alternative going to such places as Himeji, Sendai, Nagano, Niigata and Kyoto but I was the only one who had gone as far as Fukuoka on a slow train in one day. I asked them how much the 5day ticket group costs individually so they did the math. It comes to 2,300yen. You can't beat that but only if you have the time and the willingness to go on an adventure! I think the students got a kick out of the discussion.

One student suggested that I look into the special Hokkaido train pass available during school breaks. I haven't been to Hokkaido yet so I just might do that!

Joy Duncan
Trajal Hospitality & Tourism College (Tokyo)

From Osaka

Here are some messages from first year students. They have been learning English at Trajal for about two months. There are only eight students in their class but they are very cheerful and hardworking!

Hello, I’m Shogo Nozawa. After entering English course, I am surprised at the number of the students of the class. How small the English course class is!!!!!! There are just eight people in this English class. At first I could not believe this size. But It turned out this class is so much fun. Everyone is friendly and funny. Also the lessons are more interesting than I expected. Especially conversation class is the best. I guess learning in this English class will help me get a job I want. I strongly hope to work overseas no matter what.

My name is Hitomi Yamashita.
I belong to English Course, Trajal Osaka
After I entered this school, I have learned English and friendship.
My class is small but it’s fun.
Lessons are very difficult and highly leveled, pronunciation, listening , grammar….
But it is also fun to understand English.

My name is Chikako Satake.
I entered this school and I’m learning a lot of important things.
First of all, I am learning how important it is to associate with people.
We are just eight but my classmates are very friendly.
It is difficult both to work part time job and to study.
I’m looking for a good way to solve this problem now.
I am a positive thinking person. (^_-)-☆
I love coming to school because I have good friends here. (^^)♪

P.S. Here is an added bonus!! Check it out, please.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_83M-F44e8k

Spring in Seattle

It might as well be spring…
Actually, it is spring in Seattle. But it feels more like summer. For the past two weeks we have been having fantastic weather in Seattle – sunny, warm, blue skies every day. On weekends our students, and staff, have been enjoying some outdoor festivals, like the University District Street Fair and the Northwest Folklife Festival. The Folklife Festival is a major cultural event in the Seattle area; thousands of people gather in Seattle Center to enjoy music and dance performances from around the world, and also to see many talented street performers and join in spontaneous, improvised jam sessions. Also, there is a lot of ethnic food to buy and eat.
Some students have been going to the beach to practice “skim boarding” with Roger Olson, the leader of Talk Time. Skim boarding is like surfing in very shallow water.

On weekdays after school, many students have been enjoying the nice weather by running outside. They are training hard to prepare for the Honolulu Marathon in December. Every year, many students from HTC Seattle go to run the Honolulu Marathon, but it is unusual for so many students to begin training so early in the year, so I have high expectations for this year’s marathon group.

The great weather makes it a little difficult to sit in the classroom and study, but our teachers try their best to keep it interesting. Last week, we had a joint-class session with the students studying Japanese at Shoreline Community College. The SCC students and HTC students could compare their language skills and share their experiences in studying each other’s languages.

HTC students also visited the local elementary school and shared Japanese culture with the kindergarten class. The little children were so cute with so much energy and enthusiasm.

Last week, Nojima-sensei and Annamaria were in Japan for the first-year students’ Study Abroad Seminar, so other teachers had to fill in for their classes, and we missed them. It was Annamaria’s first trip to Japan, so she was very excited, and a little nervous. I am looking forward to hearing about her adventure.

It is almost time for final exams, followed by a ten-day Quarter Break. Many students are using their English skills to make their own travel reservations to go to Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Orlando, etc. Wow, “time flies”, as they say.

5-30-2009
Neal Colodner, HTC Seattle