English Education Center NEWSLETTERJANUARY,JANUARY, 2007

◇ S2 INTENSIVE CLASSES◇ FROM “ENJOY ENGLISH” CLASSES◇ WHERE ARE YOU FROM?

S2◇ BOOK REPORTS OF GRADED READERS◇ GOOD-BYE EHIME UNIVERSITY◇ INFORMATION FROM ENGLISH GANGFROM “ENJOY ENGLISH” CLASSESINTENSIVE CLASSES

We are offering you two S2 courses for students
who are interested in English.

677 Tomohito Hiromori
THEME Strategies for Success – Developing“EIGO GAKUSHU ”COURSES have already finished.
Four English courses were held.
＊MAGIC (Iain Campbell)＊JAPANESE CULTURE (Bruce Lander)

Reading and Writing Strategies＊PSYCHOLOGY TEST (Steve Fukuda)classroom Honkan 31＊HIP HOP MUSIC (Steve Fukuda)

678 Kurt Goltz
THEME Short Stories

Comments from HIP HOP MUSIC CLASS★ I enjoyed this class. I listened toclassroom Honkan 21

much music I have never listened tobefore. So I could broaden myPlease register at the counter of the ENGLISH EDUCATIONhorizons. I could understand what

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the hip hoppers said.

Office,whichison

thesecond

floorofKYOTSUKYOIKU HONKAN .

◆I hope “EIGO GAKUSHU” classes will continue forever.
These classes encourage students to be interested in

BOOK REPORTS of GRADED READERS

English culture and language.

More than two hundreds “GRADED READERS”
READERS” have been

■Very interesting class.

read in the past three months.

care about lyrics, especially hip hop, because it’s very fast andLet us introduce “a Book Report” of the student who read one

hard to understand. Now, I try to understand the lyrics. Thisof GRADED READERS.

class made me listen to hip hop music more.

Title---- Alice in Wonderland
What is the Book About?---- This story is Alice’s adventure. Alice ran after aBefore I took this class, I didn’t

INTERESTINGTOPIC, NICE CLASS !!

“TALK! TALK! TALK!” will end on Jan.22nd.

Rabbit, and she fell into a hole. She met various characters there. The world
was very strange and wonderful.
Who are the Main Characters?----The main characters are Alice, Rabbit,Cat, Hatter, Cards, Queen, and so on.
Did You Enjoy the Book?----I enjoyed it very much. I have read this book
two times.

You can watch DVDs, use English computer software, and look

The following Foreign Lecturers have participated in“TALK!TALK!TALK!”TALK!TALK!TALK!” this semester. A lot of students enjoy
discussing various topics with them.
Melanie Taylor：

Iain Campbell

Nicholas Travers：

Bruce Lander

Kurt Goltz：

Semin Poonja

at English reference books in the STUDENT SUPPORTROOM, next to the English Education Center office on theWatch for the next spring’s schedule on the bulletinsecond floor of KYOTSUKYOIKU HONKAN.

board if you missed out this time.

Come and find books you are interested in!

Come and talk with the Foreign Lecturers!

These past three years working at Ehime

From Foreign lecturer Steve Fukuda

University have been a truly unique andIn the previous edition of this newsletter, Mark told us that hewonderful experience. Coming to the campus,

didn’t really have a ‘JIKKA’.

working with the staff of the English Education

applies to me.

Being a military brat, the same

A military brat is a child whose parent or parents

Center, and sharing an office with the other foreign

are serving in the military.

lecturers has always been a pleasure, and a lot of fun. I havefrequently.

learned so much from my colleagues and students. Overbases in various countries. I usually found myself

these 3 years, I have taught about 1175 Aidai students. Ischool or country every three years or so.

have enjoyed so many conversations with them and always

living in one house my entire life and seeing the same faces inwished I had more time to get to know them. From lateelementary and junior high school seemed unnatural. Tiger

April,Woods, Jessica Alba, Stevie Fukuda, and Elton

Iwillbestartinganewcareeras

aninterpreter/translator in Sado Island, Niigata. After living
in Ehime for over 6 years, I know I will come back from time

A military family is forced to move

They move all around the world, living in military
in a new

For me the thought ofJohn are military brats as well.
You won’t believe it, but I was 0 years oldto time, so if you see me around, please say hi to me! Thanks

when I first rode in a military helicopter.

for so many good memories!

living in Naval Air Facility Atsugi, or Atsugi base, at the time,

From Melanie Taylor

My parents wereand there was no hospital for my mother to give birth, so she was

My experience over the last three years living insent to Yokosuka Naval Base by helicopter.

Matsuyama and working at Ehime University has

helicopter, I wanted to enjoy the view from the helicopter, so I

been one of the most gratifying of my life. It has

tried to jump out of my mothers’ womb (mother’s story!).

been a joy to work with such talented andHowever, we arrived safely on the hospital roof, where I wasexceptional colleagues, and I have learned much from themborn. (On the roof! My mother always wanted me to be on top ofthat I will take with me wherever I go. I have enjoyed workingthings!)

with the students of Ehime University and feel confident thatThree years later, we had to move again.

Excited being in aThis time it was tomany of them will meet with great success in the future! My

Pearl Harbor Naval Base in Hawaii, where I spent my days as a

future will be in Fukuoka beginning next year as my wife andkindergartener.

I will have our first child there next summer. I would like toof me climbing palm trees and dropping coconuts on the tourists

thank everyone for their support and friendship over the last

below (Look out below! Ouch!).

three years! I wish you all the best!

down, my family was to be stationed in Detroit, Michigan.

From Michael Guinn

I don’t remember much except for the pictures

Before we had a chance to settle

Detroit is the birthplace of many famous people, such as

I still havea few months

to go at Ehime

Eminem, Madonna, and Stevie Wonder (no relation!).

We wereUniversity, but I’m already sad at the thought

shipped back to Japan in the summer of ’87.

o f l e a vi n g. I t h a s b e e n a n u n fo r ge tta b l e

Sasebo Naval Base in Nagasaki. Three years later, we had toexperience working here. My job has been to teach themove to Guam.

students, but so often they were the ones teaching me about

Yokosuka in the summer of ’92 where I joined a ‘bousouzoku’.

Japan, and the experiences of a young person in this country. I

Sorry, I’m just kidding!

Actually, I spent the 4 years at Nile C.

know too little about them still, but enough to feel hopeful for

Kinnick High School.

Kinnick High has some famous alumni,

their futures.

such as the J-pop singer Crystal Kay and the Star Wars actor

From Nicholas Travers

Mark Hamill.

Where, you say?

I only spent two years there. We moved toAfter graduating, I wanted to go to college inHawaii, so I started doing construction work for three years toINFORMATION FROM ENGLISH GANG

save up some money.

We are reading aloud the NHK Radio English Conversation
Program “Let’s Practice” during the lunch break on Fridays.
You are always welcome!

As you see, I really can’t say I have a ‘JIKKA’.

Interestingly,my passport says that I am from Ohio which is my parents’house, but I have never been there.

I do envy people who growup in one neighborhood, but also feel I had many

ENGLISH EDUCATION CENTER

will never have the opportunity to experience.

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interesting and valuable adventures that others

I love all the places I have lived in andall the people I have met in my life,
which is something I would never trade.