tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45022573665819632872024-03-05T07:22:55.825-08:00Virginia Governor's Japanese AcademyVa Japanese Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476579751045791503noreply@blogger.comBlogger122125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4502257366581963287.post-48462919027868301152016-07-16T10:49:00.001-07:002016-07-16T10:49:03.631-07:00PARENTS: Important Check-out Info<span style="font-size: large;">Dear Parents,</span><div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Below is the schedule for your children tomorrow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">10:00 – 11:30: Student check-out @Andrews Lounge <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">12:00 – 1:00: Closing Ceremony @Blackwell Auditorium </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thank you!</span></div>
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Va Japanese Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476579751045791503noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4502257366581963287.post-15001131132800312392016-07-16T10:47:00.001-07:002016-07-16T10:59:14.634-07:00Friday July 15, 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We had a special Japanese banquet as well as a variety show!</div>
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<br />Va Japanese Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476579751045791503noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4502257366581963287.post-81797318099299767672016-07-13T17:21:00.001-07:002016-07-13T17:21:10.750-07:00Wednesday July 13, 2016<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After interviewing the teachers and RA’s yesterday, we reviewed their responses in class, which, overall, were really insightful. We practiced </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">taiko</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and finished writing our kanji for the front of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">taiko</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">; even though calligraphy is supposed to be calming, many of us were stressed out about getting our characters perfect! In one of the most memorable activities of the day, everyone worked together to construct long, complex sentences. Although, with all of us contributing different ideas, they didn’t always make sense!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today everyone in the academy had a taste of Japanese calligraphy and the tea ceremony. We were split into groups, and those doing calligraphy got to write their favorite kanji on rice paper, whereas those doing the tea ceremony learned its process, history, and even got to reenact it by drinking matcha and eating </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">okashi. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It was an interesting part of Japanese culture, and perhaps when I return home I might have a tea ceremony of my own!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After doing our </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">rajio taiso</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> exercise routine every morning since the beginning of the Academy, everyone still didn’t have it memorized (hey, coordination is difficult!). So, during Recreation Time, the companies faced off against each other to see who could perform it the best. The </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">senpai</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> graded us on spirit, correctness, and coordination. Unfortunately, the Blog company didn’t win, but we came in third. </span></div>
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<br />Va Japanese Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476579751045791503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4502257366581963287.post-17650596521153284802016-07-10T09:00:00.002-07:002016-07-10T09:06:35.163-07:00Saturday July 9, 2016Today we had our morning language classes and afternoon topic classes. The beginner class can now discuss events in the present, future, and past tenses, as well as talk about how things went and who they did what with. Their language is growing so quickly! The topic class focused on more seasonal vocabulary with weather words, as well as weather-related activities. Soon we will debate the best season!<br />
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In the evening we had an awesome Pop Culture Night, which had 5 different activity stations: Karaoke, Art, Food Decoration, Purikura, and Kendama. We had a blast singing the pokemon theme song as well as some good-old Usher!<br />
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The purikura station, or Print Club in Japanese, had many cosplay outfits and colorful wigs and accessories. Even the teachers dressed up!<br />
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We could also decorate our own shortcakes with whipped cream, various berries, chocolate, etc. Delicious!<br />
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The Kendama station was a tough competition with some students' points totalling over 300! We have some Kendama masters here! The goal of playing Kendama is to land the wooden ball on the small concave spaces. Let me tell you, it is really hard!!!<br /><br />
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<br />Va Japanese Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476579751045791503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4502257366581963287.post-65045810721751480892016-07-08T17:52:00.001-07:002016-07-10T08:51:17.800-07:00Friday July 8, 2016<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Topic classes have changed today; advanced/intermediate were put in Otani Sensei’s class, whereas the beginners were put in the Nemastil Sensei’s class. The advanced/intermediate were given a lesson on Japanese fortune, which included the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">omikuji</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. We wrote fortunes for one another and were given one randomly. After that activity, we had a review lesson on te-form and ended the class with instructional video on how to create the taiko drum. Five star, I highly recommend. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">More vocabulary for the newbies today. We learned the words of various vehicles like cars and buses, and the past, present, and future tenses. Also, since Tanabata is over, Nemastil-sensei is teaching the beginner’s topic class from now on. She taught us how to ask and tell birthdays, seasons and how to tell the weather (and let me tell you, it is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">atsui </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here at the Academy). The culture classes danced, and learned about the military in Japan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We also had a chance to cook some curry for dinner! We had a curry Iron-Chef competition with secret ingredients like chocolate and taco bell sauce. The winner was the Undokai Company with the secret ingredient of "Rayu", or Japanese Worcestershire-like sauce. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tonight we celebrated! After a strenuous two hours of putting on beautiful</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> yukatas</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the girls were finally ready to celebrate. The entire camp dressed up in traditional </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tanabata</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> festival clothing. You should have seen the faces on the cafeteria workers! We also had the pleasure of watching a hilarious play written by our very own students that depicted the story behind this star-crossed festival.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The festival started out with a very impressive performance from the River City Taiko group, followed by several students getting the chance to play real </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">taiko</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> drums. The skill of the players really blew me away, especially since the Advanced/Intermediate class has been practicing </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">taiko</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ourselves (I know how difficult it is!). As the night continued, everyone participated in games we previously learned about in class, earned tickets, and had tons of fun</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In today’s language class we learned more about Tanabata and sang songs about it. We also learned how to wear a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">yukata</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, traditional Japanese clothing worn at festivals. It took us almost three people to get how to wear it! At the end of class we learned three different dances that are performed on Tanabata. They were hard to learn at first but after we mastered the steps the song was easy since everything just repeated. It was a lot of fun but got tiring really fast! I look forward to dancing on Tanabata which will be on July 7th! -Abhishek</span></div>
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<br />Va Japanese Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476579751045791503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4502257366581963287.post-52909585671784001412016-07-04T13:50:00.005-07:002016-07-04T14:10:49.928-07:00Monday July 4, 2016<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Beginner class can carry on conversations (If we know what’s being asked…) With our new knowledge of verbs, the class has now opened up a whole realm of questions and answers. I can finally understand when people say what they like to read and eat! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Intermediate: </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Taiko practice resumed once again today! We practiced our regular beat and not only did we add another part, we picked up the speed, making the whole performance sound so powerful. I can’t wait to see it all finished! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After wrapping up our </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hiragana </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">we move right onto learning the other writing format that is used for foreign words, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">katakana</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">! We also learned how to ask the price of an item and how to tend Japanese </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">yen </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">en </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in their country). Seems like a good time to go shopping. Alas, another torturous week is upon us! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline;">Today’s language class was focused on </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">Tanabata</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline;">, a Japanese festival about two gods who are in love and reunite once every year on July 7th. We read about the festival in Japanese and learned all the related kanjis, and ended the class by watching an animated adaptation of the mythology behind the story. It was really fun and I look forward to the celebration at the Academy! -Abhishek</span></span><br />
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Today was Undokai, the Sports Day Festival. We were out in
the fields and played various games including volleyball, Tips, 3-way Capture
the Flag, 3-way soccer, and Forest tag (which was very similar to Sharks and Minos).
The senpais even joined in at the end! We all got muddy from the field, but we
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We also had shopping and computer time for about an hour
each. We bought a lot of snacks for the dorm, and we tried to catch up with the
outside world via the Internet. Too bad the AP scores weren’t up yet! <span style="font-family: "wingdings"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">L</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Finally, we had movie night. We watched Toki wo Kakereu
Shoujo, or The Girl Who Leaped Through Time. It was a girl who time-traveled
back in time to deliver a message for her mother. I did not expect it to be a
romantic tragedy!!<o:p></o:p><br />
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Va Japanese Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476579751045791503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4502257366581963287.post-47885070774221609042016-07-03T11:52:00.003-07:002016-07-03T13:02:22.377-07:00Friday, July 1 2016<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">Speaking only in Japanese, we were able to make Japanese
potstickers called </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: "ms ゴシック";">ギョーザ</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"> (gyoza)!</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"> The students were split
up into 6 groups where each of us were tasked in making the gyoza from scratch.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"> That included seasoning the gyoza filling, folding the gyoza into
little pockets, as well as frying them! We were also able to make
Japanese rice balls called onigiri. The ongiri is seasoned with an
assortment of Japanese seasonings like nori (seaweed), sesame seeds, umeboshi
(pickled plums), and fish flakes. This experience was so much fun, and
we’re all looking forward to our next cooking class!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">After the cooking class,
we all went to the senpaigata (RA’s) culture classes. Chung senpai’s
culture class was on Japanese music and dance. In his class, he taught us
a dance by the Japanese music director, Halyosy called ‘Painter’. This is
his second year teaching a song by Halyosy, where some of the students will be
dancing to ‘Painter’, live, at the closing ceremony!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">In Tomomatsu senpai’s
class, we learned about different tropes in Japanese anime. The theme’s
she brought up such as ‘environmentalism’ brought upon variety of different
discussions in class. We’ll definitely be watching Mononoke Hime
(Princess Mononoke) when we come home from the Academy!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">In Sabo Senpai’s class,
we were able to watch certain Japanese fairytales like ‘Momotaro’. We
discussed about the differences in eastern and western fairytales, the role of
women in separate cultures, and the purpose of fairytales in these divergent cultures.
It definitely provided us a different perspective of the foundations of eastern
vs. western thought.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Beginner class continued to learn more </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hiragana </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">today, and the first alphabet tomorrow. While learning about the days of the week, we watched a slightly scaring, but still very informative song. Needless to say, it is still stuck in my head. We were also taught the corresponding </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">kanji</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and the meanings behind the days</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> We played board games, and even spurred some competition with a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hiragana</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> card slapping game. According to my mom, I’m not know for fast reflexes, but I still came out on top with the most cards.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some ambitious students even began to teach themselves </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">katakana</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (the second Japanese alphabet).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today, instead of going to the dining hall for dinner as usual, we all cooked </span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">gyoza</span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and made </span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">onigiri </span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to eat. </span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gyoza</span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> are Japanese pot-stickers that are made with beef/pork, green onions, cabbage, salt, and soy sauce all mixed together, wrapped in “gyoza skin” and fried in a pan. </span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Onigiri </span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is a ball of rice filled with Japanese seasonings called </span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">furikake </span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and wrapped in Japanese seaweed called </span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">nori</span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Although these foods are typically easy to make, we could only speak in Japanese with our groups while cooking which made everything a lot harder! I had to ask the teachers many times for Japanese words so I could instruct my group to cook properly. It was hard but I learned a lot, and I look forward to cooking for Japanese foods! </span></span><br />
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Va Japanese Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476579751045791503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4502257366581963287.post-18226996175776176032016-07-03T11:51:00.002-07:002016-07-03T13:02:12.824-07:00Thursday, June 30 2016<div style="background: white;">
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Amazing)! Today, we went to Maymont Park: one of the largest public
Japanese gardens on the east coast. There, we were able to experience the
park first hand by doing community service within the garden itself. Some
students cut bamboo while other students got to wade in the pond, removing the
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beginner: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For our topic-based class, Otani-sensei talked about an upcoming festival that we will be celebrating in about a week which is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tanabata </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Star Festival), but he did so in only Japanese. Thankfully, he began the two hour class with a short animated video (which had English subtitles) that explained the origin of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tanabata</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Long story short, a God and a Goddess were madly in love, but since they did not uphold their duties, the father of the Goddess was outaged, and separated the two, only to allow them to see one another on July 7th. You know, your average love story.</span></div>
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Va Japanese Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476579751045791503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4502257366581963287.post-49974993877022060662016-06-28T17:54:00.001-07:002016-06-29T11:55:36.970-07:00Monday June 26, 2016: Language<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Mirai</span>Va Japanese Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476579751045791503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4502257366581963287.post-40522206369027451382016-06-28T17:53:00.002-07:002016-06-30T17:42:43.102-07:00Monday June 26, 2016:Culture<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Themes in Anime: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tomomatsu-senpai talked about various mature themes that are commonly portrayed in anime, Japanese animation which is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">usually</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> considered for children. This activity was great because so many of the kids were enthusiastic about anime! Discussion ranged from light-hearted talks about gender roles to more darker topics such as war and genocide. After the theme was explained, Tomomatsu-senpai showed us clips from popular anime such as </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Death Billiards</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Princess Mononoke</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> that reflected the themes discussed. Overall, it was a fun, unique experience... until the anime we were watching ended on a cliffhanger. :( </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>Va Japanese Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476579751045791503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4502257366581963287.post-1588753464841326732016-06-28T17:46:00.001-07:002016-06-30T17:28:52.048-07:00Sunday June 25, 2016: Check-in & Opening Ceremony<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
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Dear Japanese Academy Parents,<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is a reminder that tomorrow, Sunday, June 26, is the
beginning of your child's journey at the Governor's Language Japanese Academy.
The entire staff is excited to meet your children and explore Japanese language
and culture together. Tomorrow will be a very busy day, and in order to avoid
confusion I am sending the planned schedule for Check-in and the Opening
Ceremony. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>12:00pm - 1:00pm</b>: Student Check-in at Andrews Hall <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>1:30pm - 2:00pm</b>: Opening Ceremony at Blackwell Auditorium<o:p></o:p></div>
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Check-in will be in the lobby of Andrews Hall and there will
be academy staff waiting for you to check in your children. Resident advisor
(RA) staff will also be present to assist with move in. The staff will be
wearing the Japanese Academy T-shirts, so we will be easy to find. There will
be a limited number of carts available for move in. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The scheduled departure time for the parents is at the end
of the opening ceremony. Please make
sure your children have all of their belongings in their room before the
opening ceremony. Additionally, please be sure you have collected your child's
WIFI-accessible electronic devices (laptop, tablet, cell phone, etc.). <o:p></o:p></div>
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If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to
ask. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>A few reminders:</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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If you were contacted to bring extra documents please bring
them. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Please do not forget that your child needs quarters to do
his or her laundry.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The dorm rooms are very cold so be sure to bring extra
blankets or warm pajamas for the building.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Va Japanese Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476579751045791503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4502257366581963287.post-84115359568083105602015-07-10T20:43:00.000-07:002015-07-11T10:46:53.901-07:00DEAR PARENTSDear Parents,<br />
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Just a friendly reminder that check out for your children is tomorrow, Sunday, July 12.<br />
Check out will be at 10 am - 11:30am. The Closing Ceremony begins at 12pm.<br />
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Thanks,<br />
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Chanel GriceVa Japanese Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476579751045791503noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4502257366581963287.post-27764863455371355552015-07-10T19:19:00.003-07:002015-07-10T19:23:03.068-07:00July 10th: Variety Show and Cry Me A Pond...Today has been a very eventful and special day for all of the students here at the academy, since it is the day before the last day here at the academy and Chung Senpai's Birthday! The day started off as normal with Language class and a topic class after lunch. Our final recreation was spent playing our very first recreation game: Ship to shore! For dinner, we enjoyed Japanese food at an Academy Banquet. All the senseis and senpais gave heart warming speeches that made a majority of us cry.... Today was also the day of the Variety Show! The Pop Culture Night and Variety Show company did an AMAZING job putting together the show, and everyone who performed did an OUTSTANDING job! From Joseph's mind blowing card tricks to Allie's crazy realistic bark, everyone enjoyed seeing the talents of their peers and surprise performances from the Sensei's and Senpai's! The day ended with a celebration for Chung senpai's 21st Birthday! Everyone showed how much they appreciate all that he does for each and every one of us, from fanning us on a hot day to just cheering us up with his bright smile! Something I feel that everyone realized today was that our time here is really coming to an end..... We have all grown so close to each other and have became family...<br />
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Lauren SanVa Japanese Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06476579751045791503noreply@blogger.com0