Student-created Tour is commercialized!

A second-year student of the travel course planned a tour for students and gave a presentation to a travel agency.

Mr. Nagashima who is the manager of the planning section of NOE was very interested in the Thailand tour. He gave it a high evaluation, because it had many attractive optional tours, making it very good for students who are vsiting Thailand for the first time.

The student and Mr. Nagashima know very well what the young customers want. Finally it was decided to market the tour.
Now the student and Mr.Nagashima are preparing the travel brochure.

You can find the brochure at almost 500 to 600 travel agencies by the end of November.
If you are looking for a Thailand tour, you can take the tour!! You will have a good time in Thailand!

Kumiko YAMAMOTO
Trajal Hospitality & Tourism College (Osaka)

My Summer Vacation in America

I took a great trip for 22 days with outdoor experts Leo and Sony, and 5 other HTC students.
We went to many places, including Crater Lake (Oregon), Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon (Utah), the Grand Canyon (Arizona), and some natural hot springs. Everywhere we could see amazing natural beauty. I was moved by the deep blue color of Crater Lake, and at the Grand Canyon I felt how small I am. We couldn’t take a shower for a week, but we washed our hair in a river or a lake instead. It was very good, and I felt like I was reborn.
We also went to Las Vegas. We looked around many hotels on the strip, and we were surprised how gorgeous they are. We were able to watch “O” by Cirque du Soleil, and it was beautiful and spectacular. I want to watch the show again.

The best part of this trip was Burning Man. It’s a big fire-art festival at Black Rock Desert in Nevada, and it lasts one whole week. Many people go there from all over the world and create various artworks in the desert. On the final night, all of the artwork is set afire and burned. Everyone there was kind and friendly and liked to party, so we could make a lot of friends – with not only Americans, but also Japanese, Koreans, Germans, and Israelis. I absolutely cannot experience such a wonderful trip in Japan. It was the best summer I ever had!

Misato Shirai, HTC Seattle, October 1, 2009

＊♪＊ TOU-NICHI-BUN (vol.13) ＊♪＊

We had a “Japanese Culture” class (advanced level; class U and P) on the 5th of November. We are holding this kind of class five times during the fall term. It is the first time for us to adopt “Japanese Culture” class several times in the regular Japanese Language class.

This day, two teachers introduced their area of specialty, “kimono” or “yukata” to the students, and the students tried wearing the yukata or watched.
Take a look at the photos. The beautiful kimono and yukata are so impressive and the two instructors were great as well.

Junko Fujisaki
Tokyo Japanese Language & Culture College

Return to Seattle to continue to study English

Hi, there! How’s your day going?
I’m Ayano from the international Communication Course.
I went to study in Seattle through the Hospitality Tourism College program last year.
I worked at the Mariners shop Downtown Seattle as an internship for about 5-monts. I really loved my time there because my co-workers were very friendly and helped me out a lot w/ expressing myself in English so that I got over my embarrassment about making mistakes.
That’s why I always tried to strike up conversations w/ my co-workers.
That relationship brought me a lot of joy and comfort, and made me study English even more. I’m gonna return to Seattle to continue to study English next April. I’m still working on brushing up my English.

I’m sure if you stay focused you can be whatever you want!
I’ll keep my fingers crossed!!

Ayano
Hospitality & Tourism College (Tokyo)

＊♪＊ TOU-NICHI-BUN (vol.12) ＊♪＊ from a student

Hi, everybody. My name is Phoebe from Taipei Taiwan. It is so glad to share my life in Japan with you guys. Before I came to Japan, I could not speak any Japanese. But learning Japanese in Tokyo Japanese Language & Culture College is a real good choice in my life. We have lots of interesting courses. Singing Japanese pop song, watching drama, to know what is the traditional Japanese opera “KABUKI”, and more than that. Studying Japanese without stress is such a cool thing, isn’t it?

In this October, in order to make student’s relationship getting closely, we had an excursion event and went to “SOLEIL PARK” in “YOKOSUKA”. Then BBQ and had some games in the park. We certainly had a lot of fun. I think it will be my good memory of my life. So, what are you waiting for? Just join us to make your life colorful!

Phoebe (Lin Yi-Chen)
Tokyo Japanese Language & Culture College

絆～Road to Peace～

Staying late at school for the meeting and preparation

Making costumes by ourselves for the performances

Trajal Dance Group “From 0” All members were absolute beginners. We’re practicing very hard!!!

Hello! How ya going?
Although we’ve often talked about food in Blog from Melbourne, today, I’d like to talk about different topic.
Japan Day which is very big event for TRAJAL students will be held in November. The theme this year is “ 絆～Road to Peace～”. 絆(KIZUNA) means “bond” in English.　We organize a lot of events, for example fashion show, singing, dancing and “Eisa“. Eisa is the traditional dance in Okinawa, Japan.
We are getting ready and practicing these every day recently. We hope that the Japan Day will be successful.

Melbourne 　Konomi

Web Chat with Suzy

Every Thursday, our students chat with Suzy in Melbourne through Skype.

We chose the city because we have a school there and there is only a two hour time difference (summer time) between Tokyo and Melbourne.

Our theme is “Real-time and interactive communication over a long distance.”
We have a dream, some day, we would like to become a borderless school in an effort to provide our educational philosophy all over the world.

Satoshi Tsukada
Travel Journal Educational Foundation (Tokyo)