JCC/GTS dinner tomorrow! and Shrinking?

First JCC/GTS dinner will be tomorrow night! I hope to see many of you! I have a business Japanese class to teach at MITSUWA scheduled by Consulate General of Japan between 6 and 7:30pm, so I should be joining the dinner around 8pm. The second test of 1102 was completed and lost some students. The average score was about 70%, so not too good as a test this time but "life goes on and on." This coming Saturday is the workshop for Japanese teachers in Illinois and over 25 teachers across the state and levels (K through 12 plus college) will meet at Elk Grove High School! There seems to be quite a few students who are interested in Summer Study Abroad in Japan (so far about 10 from COD and WCC!) I am hoping that more people would join my Christmas Field Trip!

The first test is completed and shrank as usual!

It has been a while since last time update due to the excessive busy work at the beginning of the academic year and still continues. Yet time goes by and first test of 1101 and 2201 has been completed. The average score of 1101 was 78% and 2201 was 80%. 1101 has always polarization at the beginning and no exception this time. There are two big groups. One was around 90% and another was around 65%. The morning class students at the beginning was over 50 in 2 classes, now 40 in 2 classes, so about 10 students have been beamed up! There are still opening for Christmas Japan Trip class, so you or your friend from anywhere in the United States are welcome. Summer Study Abroad 2011 application has now begun and already getting applications in. It seems that there 5 from COD are seriously interested and 3 from WCC. JCC/GTS Dinner for October will be coming up on Friday 10/1. Beginning around 7pm though GTS will show up around a little after 8pm since I have to teach business Japanese language to JET returnee at MITSUWA!

Oh, September! GTS/JCC dinner canceled!

While I have to cancel the monthly JCC/GTS dinner on September, I am quite excited to visit the family near Cincinnati, OH during this long weekend. They took care of me when I first arrived in the United States back in 1988. He was a first-year student in my class at that time and is now 40 years old and having 3 daughters. So I hope 2 daughters of mine, though too little, can befriended with them!! Some students began evaporated! from 1101 classes and soon all the classes be stabilized!

Second week began! No JCC/GTS dinner on September:(

The second week of the fall semester began and a few students withdrew for various reasons. But big drop will probably come after the first test! Unfortunately I have to cancel the September dinner because I will be heading to Ohio where I can meet with my former student who was 18 at that time and now 40! We will resume the dinner on October! Waubonsee Community College Japanese 101 has 21 students who eagerly study Japanese in my once-a-week class though it must be tough in that format!

Over 100 students in 1101 at A MOMENT!

As usual, including the class taught by my friend, all 1101 classes are full and some are even added! They are having trouble finding a seat in my class as well as a parking spot at COD! Many former students know there will soon be some mysterious seats and some students being beamed up to somewhere! 2201 is a class of very good size and I hope they will stay and enjoy themselves! I have to make a trip to Ohio during the Labor Day weekend to meet my very first student in the US (well, he was 18 now 40!) and his family, I have to cancel JCC/GTS dinner in September! The dinner will be back in Oct. 1! The first class at Waubonsee Community College will be tomorrow and 20 students have so far signed up. The class there will be held only once a week on Thursday so I am not sure how much they can learn but kind of interesting to see how it goes!

100 seats of Japanese 1101 are now completely filled!

Not only classes of GTS but my friend class has been filled! Well, out of these 100 plus some students, how many students will survive? Now is the betting time! hahaha! Truly hope everyone stay until the last day of the class but.... At least I am getting excited to have new faces in my class. I already noticed some familiar names coming back to the class!

GTS 1101 are filled!

75 seats of GTS 1101 are filled now. Well, as many of GTS family member knows, soon several ghost students appear! 2201 has 8 more seats left and there are a few students in 2251 now. Another 1101 class taught by Imamura-sensei, a good friend of GTS is still open and I encourage many of you to join her class before being filled. She is an elementary school Japanese teacher and know a lot of fun stuff! Though I am now busy preparing for the first class where I have to "threaten" you, I try getting excited to have the whole new students!