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News from our July 19, 2015 Meeting!
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July 19, 2015


Dear Hibiki no Kai and Echo Society Members,

                                                                                              
    

Information Notes

 
 Room Reservations                               

July  26 - AM. room 2.  PM. room 2.

> Notice! Our classes will be closed in August for a summer break. <
After the break we will restart classes at 10:00 A.M. on September 6 (Sunday). 


                                                                                                                                     
New Hibiki home page http://hibikinokai.org        
 

 Old Hibiki home page http://sites.google.com/site/echosocietyjapan/
You can look at records of Hibiki’s past (from 2007). 過去の記録を見ることができます。

 Walt's video and  photos
Faces of Japan, Walt's video:    https://youtu.be/B1NqaKD0Xz4
Slide show video: https://youtu.be/vEXp_D8_AKQ

Akie’s essay http://ameblo.jp/spillum/entry-10928169573.html



   

■ English Class 
  
Today’s teachers and Participants: Masanori Tatsui, Doug Lerner, Michael Uki, Katsuyo Sudo, Kazuo Noborizato, Akie Omiri, Noriko Okamori, Isamu Uchida, Yoshio Hirano, Masako Uchino, Keiko Tsurumaki, Takato, Karin Son and Sanae Sugimura.

                                                                       
 
    
Photo: English class, Masako, Katsuyo, Akie and Yoshio.     
 

 
 Masanori's Lecture 

relative pronouns (関係代名詞)

present perfect tense (現在完了形)
 

Photo: English class - Masanori, Karin, Sanae, Masako and Takato. 
 


Doug's Lecture 
 
    
Photo: English class, Doug.

Broadcast live from New York with Rosalie and Myles.
Rosalie and Myles showed us the Roosevelt Island Tramway over the East River. 

 
   
Photo: East River 59th St. Bridge -  photo by Rosalie.
 
   
Photo: Rosalie and Myles.



Photo: From the Roosevelt Island Tramway. 
 
Newspaper headline puns.

Irregular noun plurals.
 
    
Photo: English class - Kazuo, Noriko and Isamu.
 
We also did the exercise about, "What did you do last week?”
One by one we spoke about our previous week's activities.

♪♪ English song
  
 Computer Workshop ■ 
 
Today’s teachers and Participants: Doug Lerner, Akiyuki Goto, Masanori Tatsui, Michael Uki, Masatoshi Mitsui (Makkun), Akie Omori, Keiko Tsurumaki, Yoshikazu Okuyama, Kazuo Noborizato, Isamu Uchida, Karin Son, Saki Kawashima, Sanae Sugimura.

We learned some more about Apple Music.

We tested the TeamViewer screen sharing software.

We heard about Office 2016, which was released for Mac in Office365 this past week.

OneNote - a free note taking soft from Microsoft - was also discussed.


Photo: Computer Workshop - Keiko, Masanori, Yoshikazu, Isamu, Makkun and the hardest studying student of all, Michael.

 
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Photo: Walt's apartment -  photo by Walt.