April 23-24: Ensoku time!

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June 1st 2008

Published: June 1st 2008

Japanese vocab ensoku: school field trip shuugakuryokou: school excursion kofun: Ancient Japanese burial mounds So in Japanese public schools, they have two types of school trips: ensoku and shuugakuryokou. Every grade from elementary to high school does ensoku, which is usually a day trip to a somewhat local place. The youngest of the bunch, maybe 1-4 graders, visit someplace local within their ... Read Full Entry

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the girls

Taniguchi Sensei

She's really good as buddying around with the kids!

making fire!

this kid is really nice! After lunch all the kids gathered to try and make fire the way the old Japanese people used to do it.

working on the fires...

It's kind of shaped like a bow with a rotating dowel attached the the ropes. You twist it up and then push the bar down causing the dowel to spin against a piece of wood, pumping the bar up and down continually so the dowel keeps rotating...eventually the friction will cause hot ash to form.

team work

smoke!

Ueda Sensei

Showing us how it's done...

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