Seems like we'll have a bit of weather on Tuesday. Keep an eye on this guy. - William
2019-09-27 20:09 JST 2019 Seems like we'll have a bit of weather on Tuesday. Keep an eye on this guy. - William www.metoc.navy.mil https://www.metoc.navy.mil/jtwc/products/wp1919.gif ↗ View original post on Facebook For a link to the original post on Facebook, open this page on a computer. Reactions: 21 · Comments: 3 · Shares: 1 ← 2019-09-26 11:53 JST 2019-09-27 22:14 JST → Around this time … 2019-09-30 13:06 JSTTomorrow is 10/1, which means the consumption tax will rise to 10% except for food items not consumed on-premise, which will remain at 8%. Nobody quite knows what this means - restaurants are obvious, but what about shopping center food courts, where the vendors are contractors but the seating provided by the mall? Expect chaos. It's only an extra 2%, but we all know the fastidiousness of some. - William 2019-09-29 11:57 JST🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲Olivia here,We received message for Cycling / Walking Tour information.Please check details below: Cycling / Walking Tour of Minami Aso and Kusasenri for October 3rd, 4th, 12th.The tour comes with traditional dengaku lunch for a bargain price of 5000 Yen. This includes a pickup and drop off from Kumamoto City and English speaking guide. (This is a monitor tour run by Minami Aso Tourism Association so they are very interested in your feedback on whether this is a viable tour and will ask you to fill in a questionnaire at the end.)See the link below for details and how to apply: https://akumamoto-asokuju.com/ 2019-09-29 08:57 JST🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲Olivia here,We received message for Cycling / Walking Tour information.Please check details below: Cycling / Walking Tour of Minami Aso and Kusasenri for October 3rd, 4th, 12th.The tour comes with traditional dengaku lunch for a bargain price of 5000 Yen. This includes a pickup and drop off from Kumamoto City and English speaking guide. (This is a monitor tour run by Minami Aso Tourism Association so they are very interested in your feedback on whether this is a viable tour and will ask you to fill in a questionnaire at the end.)See the link below for details and how to apply:ASO-KUJU National Park Monitor tour 2019-09-28 14:39 JSTA retired elementary scool teacher, an old friend (she taught my daughter) visited this morning. In the years leading up to her retirement, she detailed to me the immense difficulties of her job and was counting days - seconds - until retirement.A Kumanichi article indicated that the number of successful applicants for elementary school positions has hit an historic low, due both to the difficulty of the test and fewer applicants: 312 took the exam and and 168 passed, a 50% drop from 1994.Many readers on this site work in public education. Your insights would be appreciated. - William https://this.kiji.is/550286003561776225?c=92619697908483575 2019-09-27 22:14 JSTHello friends.This is a news about Non-educated international students at school , refused students.This is Monbukagakusyo report about it.http://www.mext.go.jp/a_menu/shotou/clarinet/003/001/012.htmBy the way, I am a member of YWCA Nakayoshi club. It holds activities to interact international people and local citizens together.We also help their studying Japanese. Why I wanted to start it was because my friend, Professor Chan brought his sons up his wife's home school and I supported them as a teacher of school managed by NPO. Fortunately, his wife was a teacher in her country. But at that time I knew the environment about international family and international kids, students.KUMADAI is becoming global University, we need something big support for international kids, international students, international family, international parents.Kurokami elementary school seems to have international class to study Japanese. But still now, I think you might not be supported enough.Yes, I know you can enter Japanese, Kumamoto public school if you ask, if you need to enter it. You should ask Kumamoto city education organization. BUT, It's only if you want, if you ask. It's different from Japanese kids are invited just only they have resident card in there. So I thought the need the place and time to study, to interact foreign kids, students, family freely.In my junior high school days, I had 4friends they were kids of 中国残留孤児Japanese orphans left behind in China. They were my good classmates and good friends even 3 or 5 years older than me. I retired the teacher of a school managed by NPO and work at public school now. I still now need lots places and time you study Japanese and interact local people well. We can help their study. We can search and think about good advice together!!If you are interested in our work, Please come and join us freely.Next workshop is on 12 October Saturday from 10am to 12.For Japanese, we should know the problem more seriously. For international friends, we are always welcome your ask and joining to us.ーAtsuko(*Ü*) https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20190927/k10012102051000.html外国人の子ども２万人が「不就学」の可能性 文科省調査 | NHKニュース 2019-09-27 20:09 JSTSeems like we'll have a bit of weather on Tuesday. Keep an … (this post) 2019-09-26 11:53 JSTThe elderly are a repository of knowlege, so when Joe mentioned Tojinmachi (唐人町) - literally, "Chinatown" and is next to Shinmachi - I waited for this 74-year old guy who usually drops by for dinner to fill me in.According to him, the neighboring Gofukumachi (呉服町) - literally, "Kimono Town" - was the red light district at the turn of the century, and many Chinese arrived in the neighboring area to fabricate kimono - hence the name. The entire area is a wonderful place to wander about. - William 2019-09-25 08:40 JSTTake the B tram to the Shinmachi stop, turn right, and you're there. Spend some time wandering around the neighborhood. 2019-09-24 05:27 JSTKirk here. I happen to be a fan of the Kyushu Shinkansen. I was interested to read this article to see how it compares with other Shinkansen lines.Everything you need to know about Japanese BULLET TRAINS 2019-09-23 14:10 JSTA note from the Kumamoto International Desk of Not Really Interesting News but a Good Chance to Improve your Japanese (our title plackards are so long there's no room for our names): Kumanichi reports a drastic increase in Internet phishing (phishing sagi, フィッシング詐欺 - the 'ph-' is pronunced as an 'f' because English is weird) focused on NTT's Docomo phones, with 80 cases in August alone netting some 5.8 million yen. The mails dangle their bait by appearing authentic, suggesting alarming (the word used for this - あおる - was new to me and has a wide range of uses - Weblio is your friend) topics, and asking the user to provide login credentials which were then used for online shopping (キャリア決済, carrier kessai) and then fenced.If receiving any financial-related email with a link, do not open it. Log off and go straight to the main site. - Williamドコモ装う詐欺急増 熊本県内で被害80件、580万円 ｜ 熊本日日新聞 2019-09-23 12:45 JSTOur friend Sean Benward is announing an event:Ezuko is Kumamoto's ecological treasure. Providing sanctuary all year round to visitors from around the world.....and humans too.I can't wait to share my love for the lake with 20 youngsters. Together we learn about the plants ans animals that call the lake their home, pick up trash and talk about what humans do the impact the lake and what we can do together to minimize our collective footprint.This is limited to 20 children and we are already half way there. This is a great opportunity to get the kids outside, in nature, participating as a community to keep our planet amazing. Oh, and maybe learn some EnglishReservations are mandatory for insurance reasons. Se please reserve now. Looking forward to seeing all of you.
