How are you, guys??

Hello, all members!! How is your summer vacation?
This is Mariko.

On July 24th, do you know what day is the day??


...It was my Birthday!! I'm 22 years old now:) Well, I had eaten a lot of food on 23th and 24th. I supposed to make my stomach explode!!!!! uuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!lol Do not eat too mach if you have your birthday soon;)

I want you to put something which you want to write here. Anything is ok!! Tell me how is your life, your trouble and problem, your happy and lovely story, and so on. Other memebers are also going to glad to know that. Don't be nervous and hesitate. Nobody will get angry with you. At least, I cannot wait to see your diary or something:D:D:D

Take care, everybody!!

07/22/09 The last meeting

Hi, this is Mariko.

How was the activity which we had done today?? Both of the groups made a funny story, I think. Did you notice that both of us had some same words in it? like "humburger" I think it's not necesary for FISHING...lol

Anyway, who is available??lol Let me know if you get a boyfriend or a girlfriend in this summer vacation!!

more expressions...
1. I'll pay for you. / I'll buy for you.
（Do you remember how to say 'yakiniku' in English??
How do you say when you pay it for your friends?）
2. I'm sore all over.
3. He is out of shape.
4. Give me another. / Give me some more. / Another round.

Japanese famous food...
How do you say...
１．はまぐりのお吸い物
２．関東風雑煮
３．五目炊き込みご飯
４．カツ丼
５．お茶漬け
Check the answers with your friends!!


AND!! Here are some intersting expressions.
1. Hand-rolled Sushi 「手巻き寿司」
2. Sushi Roll　　　　　　「巻き寿司」
3. Sushi Pockets　　　「いなりずし」

Well, this time was the last meeting for us. I'm sorry for some memebers because I did not tell all of you about it. We won't have the meeting next week so that you can concentrate your final of some classes. So we'll have the next one in October. I'll send you an email soon, so please let me know when you have a question or something to tell me. I hope everybody is going to have a wonderfull summer vacation!! ...but finishing your report is first!

Take care guys:)

p.s. I'm still raising a few members who wants to give a speech at Shizuoka University in fall.

hi, everyone!! This is Mariko.
It's soooooooooooo hot thesedays, isn't it?? Not going to be die, ok??lol

By the way, how was the today's activity??
1. Endings and Beginnigs
2. Who am I?
3. Expressions

Did you have fun? I hope you enjoyed them, and I recommend you reviewing what you learned in that day. That's easy to remember them steadily.

Did you get these meanings??
1. Do you have the time?
2. What do you go by at your office?
3. I didn't realize your father-in-low lives with you.
4. I'm planning to drive down south with my wife.
5. I've always wanted to go skydiving.
(I wrote "I'm always・・・" on white boad today.
That was wrong. "I've always・・・" is correct!)

If you have any questions, let me know any time.
Don't forget to bring your name card next week!!
See you soon:D

CALM DIGGING

Hi, everyone!!

Yumika, Nozomi, International Culture' freshmans, The Sheehans, Ms. Sugiura and I went to Bentenjima. The weather was nice and we had a good time to each other. You know, it's so taugh to get a lot of clams!!lol Did you cook some food with them tonight? I didn't yet so maybe tomorrow morning, I'm gonna eat miso soup with it.

Thanks again for a wonderful time and I was glad to make a new friends!!!!! Let's keep in touch:)

ESS 2009 Clam Digging Outing Saturday June 13

Hello ESS members,

It is good to see you in the meetings working hard and enjoying English. Thank you for your support of the club. We are planning an outing for ESS members. The information is listed below.

When: Saturday June 13, 2009. Meet at 12:00PM

Where: Bentenjima. Meet at the beach.

What: Lunch and clam digging (lunch from 12:00-1:00PM, clam digging after that)

Cost: Bring your own food. To take the boat out to clam digging, it costs 1,200 yen.

For more information, check out this link:

http://sago.livedoor.biz/archives/51174833.html

Advice: You will be digging in the the mud so please bring a change of clothes and a towel. Wear shoes that you are not afraid to get dirty.

Bring something to dig the clams with: a scoop, small shovel. You can also bring a small bucket.

Let me know if you have any questions. We hope to see you there.

Mark

The First Meeting of the First Semester

Hello~this is Mariko.
How are you? Thank you for coming today, everybody. As you know, we seem to have some new members from this semester!! Excited!!

Here is what we did today.
[ Self introduction ]
[ Partner's introduction ]

I thought the second activity was nice! You had to find what kind of parson your partner is. 5 members had introduced their partner so we knew some member's favorite food and actor. What about yours? (I mean your partner.) We didn't have much time to talk and listen to all of our speech. So, please feel free to write about it on your comment. Tell us about your partner here. But!! If you want to write about other things, that's is also okay. (For example it is good to write about today's impression, feeling, and remark etc...) Please practice to use English a lot:)

oh, and please remember and use this sentence.
''Let's call it a day.''

ok, see you next week!

The first meeting of 2009：January 14th

★A HAPPY NEW YEAR★

Hello! This is Ayaka Kato.

Today was the first meeting of 2009 and we did a speaking activity that I planed.

I had been looking forward to today's meeting!!

We practiced speaking by using cards.

We are devided into 2 groups and talked about the topics written on the cards,

for example,,,

"What would you like to achieve this year?" and

"Pick up 1 favorite person and tell why you like him or her."

All members could give their short speech very well^^

Good job　and Thank you for coming Today★★