April 23-24: Ensoku time!
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
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