Music Waffle

The most recent live band I’ve seen was Franz Ferdinand, last November at Tokyo Koksai Forum. They were great, very punky/energetic. I pogoed (very) mildly. I would have liked to see Lady GaGa when she’s in Japan but her current dates are sold out-maybe next time! On the CD front, have really been enjoying The Bravery ‘Stir the Blood’, Soundtrack of Our Lives ‘Communion’ and Mutemath ‘Armistice’. And looking forward to new ones from Supergrass, Interpol and The Strokes. The Julian Casablancas (Strokes lead singer) solo album is fantastic too. I  was also really pleased to pick up the latest New York Dolls album for 300 Yen at the weekend, a new import copy-was lucky to spot a CD sale when out shopping . Bargain! As always-too much music, too little time!

Niall

休日の過ごし方

こんにちは。

みなさんは休日をどの様に過ごされていますか？

僕の最近の休日は

起床→洗濯→掃除→食料調達→録画番組見まくり→風呂→消灯

これです！

なんて有意義なんでしょう！！！！！

あっ、食事はテレビを見ながらテキトウニ・・・

みなさんも休日はこれで(^O^)/

Hisataka

Kids passed the exams!

Most of the kids students passed their Japanese English Examination, which made me so happy!
I was very excited to hear the results. I think my reaction was much bigger than theirs!
They looked pretty calm! I thought I didn’t know which one was the adult!!

But they were very happy to see me so glad about their results!!!

Mina

バナナで健康に！

近所の八百屋さんで“バナナ１００円”の文字に魅かれて山盛りのバナナを買いました。そのままでももちろん美味しいですが、バナナのバターソテーもお勧めです。フライパンにバターを溶かして少しとろけるくらいにバナナを焼き、レモン汁と仕上げにシナモンパウダーをふりかければ出来上がり！バナナは栄養価が高く、完全食と言われる優等生なので寝坊してしまった朝などに私はよく作ります。シナモンは体を温めたり消化を助ける働きがあり、また風邪対策にも効くようですので、どうぞお試しください。

Akiko

Olympics

I’ve been watching the winter olympics from Vancouver. I really like the ski jump-I could never imagine doing it myself (I’m definitely unsporty!) but really enjoy watching some sports. I like the pole vault in the olympics as well, so definitely seem to like height related sports for some reason. The Japan-Korea football match on Sunday was interesting as well-two red cards; I couldn’t understand why the Japanese player got sent off at all.

Niall

Flamenco

I started to go to flamenco lessons 3 weeks ago.
I really wanted to learn! It’s absolutely new world for me so it’s very exciting to learn!!!
I think learning new things is good for me cos I can improve myself in many ways and I can see things from a student’s point of view during the lessons, which is instructive for my career!

Mina

立春過ぎたよね・・・

みなさんこんにちは！！

いつになったら暖かくなるのやら・・・

ヒートテックにお世話になりっぱなしの毎日です。

今日も夜は雪がちらつく様です。

出掛ける方は万全な防寒対策で！！

Hisataka

Muscular pain

Last Monday, I did very hard training for a very long hour.I’ve been trying to develop the weak parts of my muscles, but I did too much! So as a result, I had a severe muscular pain from  Monday to Thursday!!!Anyway, I’ve totally recovered from it!

Mina

映画

先日Dr.ﾊﾟﾙﾅｻｽの鏡を見に行きました。

ﾋｰｽ・ﾚｼﾞｬｰ未完の遺作にｼﾞｮﾆｰ・ﾃﾞィッﾌﾟらが友情出演…という前宣伝だけでどういう話かも知らず見に行ってしまいました…　が、面白かったです。

現代なのに、どこか１９世紀末のロンドンを思わせるような雰囲気。ボロくて怪しい移動式劇場に置かれた人を願望の世界へいざなう鏡。幻想世界が常識では考えられない世界に描かれており、そこに最新のＣＧ技術が入ったあまりに綺麗で繊細な世界はなんだか飛び出してくるような錯覚がちょっとする刺激的な映像でした。

話の内容はﾃﾘｰ・ｷﾞﾘｱﾑのﾌｧﾝﾀｼﾞｰﾜｰﾙﾄﾞすぎて途中、途中、理解出来ず『？』なシーンも多々ありましたが結構笑いどころもあり、何より私はあの鮮やかな感じが好きなので、楽しめました。

今度はAVATARを見に行こうと思います。

Have  a  nice  weekend.

Yuriko.

Happy New!

私の中学生の生徒君の高校受験の結果が今日出ました！

第一希望合格！

難しいといわれていたので、受かってくれて凄くうれしいです！

来週のレッスンはWe’ll have a party for him!

Mina