Category Archives: SSE Takarazuka Corner

Ikebana Exhibition With My Students

December 17, 2007 – 12:32 am

I learn ikebana in Nishinomia-Kitaguchi. I prefer Japanese flower arranging to European. Both styles are beautiful but for me ikebana is more peaceful and elegant. Recently my teacher and a lot of other ikebana masters put on an exhibition in Shukugawa. A group of students and I met at Hankyu station and walked there [...]

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Kobe Charity Festival

December 13, 2007 – 11:07 pm

I met a student manning a booth at the Kobe Global Charity Festival on the 21st of October. She’s raising money for a women’s university dormitory, her latest in many energetic achievements in Afghanistan. I was amazed at the number of volunteer projects in my area, it seems like Japan has most of the world [...]

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Insects with my boys class

November 4, 2007 – 11:20 pm

My class of 8 and 9 year old boys loves insects! In their recent lessons the boys learned to ask and answer questions like, ‘Where does it live?’, and, ‘how many wings does it have?’. I was a good way for them to pick up some vocab that was of interest to them, and they [...]

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