Hello!Nice to meet you!!!

Hello, everyone!! My name is  Akari Kondo. I'm a Katsuyama Hokubu Junior High School  student. I'm a member of the brassband. I play the percussion. I practice it everyday. My hobby is listening to music. I love music very much. My favorite singer is GReeeen and One Direction. Do you know them?? They're very famous and popular singers. Thank you.

Workshop #3: English (and Pidgin) Practice, Pearly Shells, and Eating Haupia!

  Last month, we had our third Hawaii workshop, and we invited two special guests to give presentations about Hawaii and help us practice our English speaking skills. Raine Sakka, an American English professor from Fukui Prefectural University, lived in Hawaii most of her life after moving there from Alabama, 

Raine (second from right)

and Aya Watanabe, a Japanese English professor from Fukui University, lived in Hawaii for a few years while studying at the University of Hawaii for graduate school.

Aya (center)

  Aya gave us a brief description about her experience living in Hawaii and gave us a few pieces of advice when visiting. She also used a slideshow to show us some pictures of the places, people, and food she encountered.

  Raine told us about her experience of moving to Hawaii from Alabama and described various things we might experience on our visit, including the complexities of pidgin English.

  After the presentations, everyone broke up into small groups to practice self-introductions and explaining the interesting sights of Katsuyama.

  Then, Raine taught us the words and some hand motions to "Pearly Shells," and Aya played the Ukulele to accompany her. It didn't take long for everyone to catch on, and soon we were all singing along.

  Finally, we all ate some haupia (both plain and chocolate flavor) that I had made the day before.

None of the students had ever had haupia before, so they were all curious and eager to try it.

It was gone in a flash and everyone agreed... the grindz was ono!

Moanalua Gardens

私の家の近くに　モアナルアガーデンがあります。たくさん木をいます。そして、大きなヒタチの木がいます。ヒタチの木は　百三十さいです。

　

モアナルアガーデンへタロパッチとこいの池をあります。

初めまして！！！

こんにちは！　

私は　リードナジェです。十七さいです。モアナルア高校の　三年生です。どうぞよろしく！ソフトボールを　します。まあまあ　じょうずです。アニメと　まんがを　大好きです。ナルトや　かてきょうしヒットマんREBORN!や　あおの　エクソシストなど　読みます。これは　私と私の犬　サイラッスです。しゃしんを　かわいいですね？  :'D

　

今日は　かんしゃさいでした。私とかぞくは　ごちそうを　食べました。食べものを　たくさん　ありました。

これは　トルコをでした。とても　おいしいでした！

日本からみんなにお会いできることをたのしみにしてします！

See you then!

HELLO!

Hello:)
My name is Kana. I'm15 and 9th grader.
I like playing guitar,so I play it everyday:)
I'm playing "Last Christmas"now.
It's very very easy,so let's try it if you have free time and have a guitar.

I want to go Hawaii early:D
I can't until then xD

Please get along<3

Hello!!

 

Hello!! Nice to meet you!

My name is Izumi  Tada.I am 16years old,and I go to Katsuyama High School.I am a member of the tennis club.I practis it everyday hard!

My hobby is to play the piano,and to play badminton.

I am looking forword to go to Moanalua High School!

This picture was taken in the cosmos field of Katsuyama.

The cosmos field are about 2 hectares!! And,cosmos are in bloom about 500,000!!

Best season is October.



Hello, nice to meet you!

Hello! My name is Haruna Sugimoto.
I am 15 years old. I go to Nambu middle school.
I like tennis, I was in the tennis club until the summer.
I want to go to Hawaii soon!

Nice to meet you!

Hello, everyone.
My name is Mai Nagaoka.  I'll be almost fifteen years old.
I was a member of the badminton team until last summer.
I like playing the piano and reading books.

I have a cat, and she is three months old.
We call her Milty. It comes from Milk Tea because her color is like milk tea.
She loves playing with a ball of yarn.

I'm looking forward to going to Hawaii!

Hello!!Everyone!!

Hello! My name is Akito Taniguchi. I'm 16 years old. My high school is Okuetsu Meisei.
My hobby is playing the trumpet. I'm a member of the school band.
I want to go to Moanalua high school soon!!!!

Hello from Katsuyama City... and Mochiko Chicken!

Hello Moanalua High School!

My name is Mark Ohara, and I am the Coordinator for International Relations in Katsuyama City.

(Me at Kinkakuji in Kyoto)

I just wanted to say thank you very much for allowing us to visit your school next spring, and I'm really looking forward to introducing you to some students from Katsuyama!

I have already taught two workshops to familiarize the students to Hawaii, and the first of those was a cooking class where we all made mochiko chicken. Here are some pictures from the event:

(Preparation)                                                          (Cooking)

(First taste of Mochiko Chicken)

I will ask the students to begin posting on this blog so that you can get a sense of who we are and what kind of place Katsuyama City is. I think it's a really interesting place with a lot of unique activities (including Japan's largest dinosaur fossil museum and a world-class skiing and snowboarding resort) so I definitely want to share it with all of you! I hope we are all able to post some interesting information and have fun corresponding with each other all the way until our trip in March.

Mahalo, and have a great day!

Mark Ohara

Coordinator for International Relations

Katsuyama City, Fukui Prefecture

Welcome to the Katsuyama-Moanalua Blog!

In anticipation of an upcoming visit, the World Language Learning Center at Moanalua High School would like to welcome the student ambassadors of Katsuyama City to post general information on this blog site. Moanalua High Japanese students are also welcome to post general information that might be of interest or value to the students who will be visiting.

Please do not post personal information or data that will compromise yourself. If you post pictures, please be sure that everyone in the picture has signed the publication release form.

We look forward to an interesting exchange of information.

Have fun!