Yakiniku tabehoudai
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| Everyone’s favorite word in Japanese, and their favorite thing in Japan. “Tabehoudai” (All-you-can-eat) We ate enough for 3 days!! Everyone’s chopsticks going for the grill… A short break [Link…
A Holiday Season Thank-You to GenkiJACS Staff
| It’s been an interesting year here at GenkiJACS – we were chosen as one of the top language schools in the world, became only the third Japanese school ever…
Yatai
| Going to a yatai (outdoor food stall) for the first time. It was raining, but it was still fun! You can’t really talk about Fukuoka without mentioning yatai, can…
New Neighbors!
| We posted a while ago about companies moving out of the GenkiJACS building, but this time, we’re happy to announce a new company moving in! This is the sign…
Enmusubi
| At Atago Shrine. The weather was great up until yesterday, with a pretty blue sky. After climbing a lot of stairs, the view was incredible. At the shrine, a…
Conversation classes
| Recently the higher-level classes at GenkiJACS went to visit a local Japanese university, where we had Japanese conversation practice with the students. We talked about our home countries, Christmas,…
Okonomiyaki!
| Today we had okonomiyaki. It tastes different when you’re learning how to make it as you go along! We were hoping for some leftovers, but it looks like it…
Next year’s Chinese zodiac
| At a culture lesson we drew the Chinese zodiac animal for next year. Next year is the Year of the Tiger.Students drew tigers on the wood from a 100-year-old…
Early-morning practice
| We went to see the early-morning practice at the sumo stable Takasago. The impressions afterward were “That was scary…” Everyone was overwhelmed by the sight of the wrestlers practicing…
Xmas Party video on Youtube!
| We’ve uploaded one video from last week’s Xmas party to Youtube. It’s the teachers and staff performing a student-written play. It’s a long one – 9 minutes in total!…