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Student star!

4/24/2016

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Today I went to a Sapporo Jazz event at Patos in Kotoni to support an Imagine student playing with her jazz group.

They are all amateurs or semi-pros, and they meet once a week to practice and learn.

Sapporo Jazz Workshop was the first act on the festival program today and they were great!

It is so strange to watch someone you know perform. I felt nervous for my student - and  for the English teacher I know who is also a member of the group. My eyes were glued to them.

I really admire people who work Monday to Friday in their regular jobs, and then at weekends they have the energy and passion to do more - like music.

Several Imagine students are musical - there is a harp player, a marimba player, a tone chime player....a violinist and two pianists. maybe we should start an Imagine band!

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JICA

4/7/2016

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JICA is holding recruitment seminars in Hokkaido this month.

I have several Japanese friends and former students who have become JICA volunteers and worked abroad, using their English to help others.

If you are interested please check this link.
​JICA - Hokkaido.

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Spring scenes

4/5/2016

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 The first flower in my garden - this crocus by the cement steps. Every year this is the first sign of spring. Maybe the steps are a little warmer than the surrounding garden.

While friends in Tokyo are enjoying cherry blossom parties, this is the simple joy of a Hokkaido spring. And the fukinoto growing by the roadside!

Most of Sapporo now is full of melting snow, dirty streets and the tiny little stones (called gravel) which are left behind after the snow has gone.

A friend broke his collar bone recently, when his bike slipped on gravel on the Hokkudai campus. It reminded me of a similar accident I had a few years ago. Luckily, nothing broken - but a painful bruise on my chest which made breathing, sneezing and laughing hard. Usually I don't bike in this season. I walk and drive...and take public transport.

Lots of melting snow...look what I saw by the Toyohira River this weekend. Beautiful Hokkaido? Not yet.


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    Me.....
    I teach at Imagine.
    I teach at NHK Culture Centers in Odori and Shin-Sapporo.
    I proof read tourist information or academic papers.
    I narrate videos in English for Japanese companies.
    I eat chocolate; garden; play with cats; see movies; help look after my partner's mother and eat a lot of sushi....

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