On January 21, 2010, we held our final English Lecture for this year. We called it “A Festival of English” because of the variety of activities it covered.
We started with our Zion Cup winner of the 1st Year competition, Kanako Mine, who presented her speech on “Learning from the Past.” That was followed by a [...]
On October 15, we were fortunate to host some visitors from Vancouver Island University in BC, Canada. This was the university our students have studied at during the last two summers. Visiting us this time were:
Ralph Nilson, President of VIU
Graham Pike, Dean of International Education
Theresa Meyer, International Education Coordinator
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Our 4th Zion Cup English Contest was held on Saturday, October 17. The previous day, a semi-final contest had been held, and the best 3 students in each year group selected.
Results
Year 1 students
1st place – Kanako Mine – Learning from the past
2nd place – Rin Shouen – Friendship
3rd place – Mami Adachi – JAM Project
Year [...]
Twelve students from our “Bunka Koryu” course are currently studying at Vancouver Island University in Canada for the next 3 weeks. You can follow their progress on our Travel Blog. They are being accompanied by Malcolm Swanson, and will return on September 13.
Students at Vancouver Airport.
On July 22, we were fortunate to see a solar eclipse. This was the first total eclipse in 46 years, and in Kitakyushu we were able to experience around 90% of a total eclipse. The next time one will come to Japan will not be for another 26 years!
View of the eclipse from Kitakyushu
