On July 30—our last day of classes—we held our semifinal contest for the 2012 Zion Cup English Contest. The final will be held during the school festival in October. Each 1st-year class chose 2 semifinalists, and 4 speakers came from each of the 2nd-year classes. From these, 3 finalists were selected from each year group.
The semi-finalists were:
- 1a: Marie Kubota, Kazumi Teramoto
- 1b: Yuka Ietsugu, Azusa Matsumoto
- 1c: Sena Ogata, Kaho Okamoto
- 1d: Kanna Kitou, Hiroko Kimura
- 2A: Shiori Wakamatsu, Rena Honda, Hikari Ikeda, Natsumi Ayukawa
- 2B: Aiko Yamane, Nanami Mineyama, Shoko Amioka, Arisa Fujii
From these speeches, the finalists were:
- 1st year: Sena Ogata, Kanna Kitou, Hiroko Kimura
- 2nd year: Shiori Wakamatsu, Aiko Yamane, Nanami Mineyama, Shoko Amioka*, Arisa Fujii*
*Ineligible to participate in final because of study abroad
