Day 3

Morning Rajio Taisou! (Radio Exercise)

     Today is the third day of Rajio Taiso. Every morning, we get into lines with their company (student organization that organize activities.) and exercise for ten minutes. The exercite are simple and easy to remember. The exercise range from jumping-jacks, stretches and energize the students for the long ahead. These ten minutes make a big difference in the students morning routines and are an important part of Japanese culture.
-Adam

Language Classes

     We have language classes everyday. The beginner language class finished learning the hiragana alphabet and started learning basic grammar. We played Simon says with the new phrases such as "Desu", which means "It is~". We also practiced Japanese outside during study time!
-Lani  

*Film Class

     Today we saw something new on our schedule, Film Study. We started watching the movie "Seven Samurais" and it certainly wasn't boring. the movie, despite it being an old black and white movie, was highly engaging and the Sensei (teacher), made it interesting and insightful comments. It was about peasants finding samurai to protect their village and we're certainly looking forward to next class to continue the film.
-Amber

Recreation

     During our recreation time, some students played basketball. Others played tennis outside, swam in pool, worked out in weight lifting room.
-Liem

Culture Class

     Today we had the first day of Culture Class B. We had 3 choices of classes to choose from both A and B. Choices for group A were Japanese Wood Blocks, Japanese Holidays, and Japanese Theater. Group B includes Food, Japanese Religions, and Japanese Fashion. In food class, we watched a movie on a Japanese  food called Udon + had chewy Japanese Candies!
-Courtney

Today we went to our culture classes. There was a selection between fashion, food and religion classes. Luis Senpai taught the fashion class and we learned about popular Japanese fashion throughout the past few decades. Afterwards we made friendship bracelets out of origami paper!
-Andrea