"please remember always, the pain of parting is nothing compare to the joy of meet again"

Yoyogi Koen

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... and more ...

Roppongi Hills

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Mori Tower

Roppongi Hills - Asahi TV Station

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Doraemon, the celebrated robotic cat from the future. Doraemon has a 4 dimensional pocket that he can retrieve lots of different gadgets from. He has no ears, since a mouse ate them. Thus, he hates mice. Also, he is terrible at Jyanken-poi (Rock - Paper - Scissors) since he has no fingers and can only do rock! We know all of this from students, we haven't seen one episode of the anime!

Roppongi Hills

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Lights on the pond gave a strange atmosphere

Azabu University

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Apparently this is considered teaching at Michelle's University?!?! Her student took her to ride a horse named Ume.

British Anthems

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We wanted to check out a rock concert.

British Anthems

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We saw a festival style concert called British Anthems. Our favourite band that played was called Los Campesinos. They are shown in the picture. Also at the festival: The Enemy, The Pipettes, Lucky Soul and others.

Main walkway at Azabu University

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Beautiful ginko leaves, turning golden yellow!

Azabu University

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This was one of our Christmas party classes - Simone and I joined our classes together for the day. We played pass the parcel, musical chairs and we sang 12 days of Christmas - each student had to stand up and sing a different part. We had a really fun day.

Teacher's Party - Azabu University

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The students organized a party for the teachers - we ate and drank and had lots of laughs. Three of my funny students: L-R Akari, Hiroshi, Naoyuki.

Michelle's Class

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This is about half of my students that came to the Teacher's party...we had so much fun!

Farewell at Azabu...

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The students gave us a surprise on our last day and presented us with flowers and asked for another speech! We had already been presented with gifts at the Teacher's party so this was quite overwhelming. We ended our speech by singing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas!"

So sad to say goodbye...

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Two of my favourite students - Haruka (L) and Katsuya (R). Haruka couldn't hold back the tears when she was saying goodbye, which was too much for me! I soon joined her in a weepy goodbye :(

Nihon University

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One of Travis' classes. This day we played Balderdash (each contestant makes up the definition) with Christmas phrases that the students didn't know, like "egg nog" or "boxing day". They came up with some hilarious answers. Boxing Day: "the day when Santa hide in a box to scare the children" or Egg Nog: I received a picture of two stick men throwing decorative eggs to each other, so I had to read to the class "um, a game where you throw decorative eggs at each other" and some students guessed this was the real answer! In the picture Takaaki, Shinya, Minori, Azusa, Tatsuki, Travis, Natsumi and Kyoko.

Nihon University Xmas Party

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A fun Christmas Party with some of Kelly's students and some of Travis' students. It was tough to say goodbye!

Nihon University Xmas Party

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This guy's crazy ... about Christmas!

Nihon University Xmas Party

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I'm going to miss these guys! Back row: Kyoko, Ayumi, Shingo, Travis, Shinya, Nanako, Masamichi, Satoru. Front row: Yuiko, Azusa, Natsumi, Miyuki, Minori. By the end of the term they felt more like friends than students.