Christmas Dinner

On December 17th, we had our annual Christmas Dinner.

The Christmas Dinner was a charity event for UNICEF. We were able to raise 56,699 yen so thank you to everyone who contributed.

We had a delicious traditional Christmas dinner that everyone looked like they really enjoyed. For me, it was the honey baked ham, apple pie and eggnog that were most delicious.

Following the dinner, Professor Kanel treated us to a very entertaining Christmas carol sing along. It was lots of fun and I hope that everyone enjoyed the chance to sing along in English.

We also had Santa who put in a special appearance. He gave everyone a present as they left the dinner. The presents were for the secret Santa and I hope that everyone was happy with the presents that Santa gave them.

Thank you to everyone who came along and made the Christmas dinner a success. For those who couldn’t make it, remember the Christmas dinner is held every December so please try and come along next year.

Christmas Charity Dinner

Tomorrow is our annual Christmas Dinner. The dinner will be from 6:15pm to 8:00pm at E-cube. This year’s menu consists of:

Entrees
Turkey & Stuffing
Honey Baked Ham

Side Dishes
Mashed Potatoes
Steamed Vegetables
Dinner Rolls

Sauces
Brown Gravy
Cranberry Sauce

Desserts
Blueberry Cobbler or Apple Pie
English Christmas Pudding

Drinks
Eggnog
Fruit Punch
Juice
Coffee

The dinner is free for those who made a reservation at the beginning of December. But, we hope that everyone that comes will make a donation to UNICEF. Members from UNICEF will be at the dinner to sell goods and take donations.

We will be having a “Secret Santa” event. What is that? This is an event in which someone brings a gift, 500yen or less, and receives a ticket. At the end of the evening, the ticket is returned and the person receives a gift that someone else brought. Sounds fun, doesn’t it?

We are asking those attending the dinner to dress up a bit. Please don’t wear blue jeans or sneakers. Do try to wear something red.
Please check our website for more information about E-cube’s “Christmas Dinner Charity Event”. If you have made a reservation, we are looking forward to seeing you tomorrow!

Christmas Charity Art Market

Hello everyone.
We had the Christmas Charity Art Market for UNICEF last Monday and Tuesday.















We all had a good time!!! There are about 8 stalls and they were selling all sorts of art and crafts including ceramic plates, cups, post cards, and accessories. We were also displaying art work and photos from Kinki students.




























There were lots of wonderful things for sale. Everything sold was made by Kinki students and the best thing was that everything was really cheap!! Being a charity art market 5% of all proceeds were donated to UNICEF. Thank you to everyone who come along and purchased something from the art market.

Yesterday Nick was making Christmas stockings for the afternoon activity. It was very popular with lots of students here to make a stocking to keep their Christmas candy in.

Don’t forget we have Christmas activities for the rest of the month so please come in and try one or two. Today, you can sit down and relax with Jill and enjoy her ‘Christmas Movies’ activities.

Merry Christmas everyone and we hope to see you all here soon.

Monday, we had a special guest from New York!!!
His name was Sean Lennon, as you may know.

The event at E³ was wonderful. So many students and members of the public had a great time listening to his brilliant music.

After singing, students asked some questions to Sean and he talked about his life, his music, his family and his childhood.
He was a very friendly guy and it was wonderful to see someone so famous yet so down to earth.

It was a really interesting day and all of staff at E3 thoroughly enjoyed it. We hope that everyone who came along enjoyed it too.
Thank you very much to Sean for coming along and for a great performance.

Dessert Buffet and Mongolian Khuushuur

Sorry it’s been a while but we are back!!!!
Hope everyone is well. We are all good here at E³.

We had a fun day yesterday with Dessert Buffet and Julia’s delicious Mongolian Khuushuur.

E³ café held the 1st ever Dessert Buffet. It was only 500yen for all you can eat sweets, cake and even pizza. 30 lucky students had one hour to enjoy lots and lots of beautiful desserts. Everyone was very full :D! You can see some pictures.





It was a successful 1st Dessert Buffet and café may do another one very soon.
If you like sweets, please try and come along next time.

Continuing on food, E³ was full of the delicious smells of cooking lamb.
Julia’s activity was Khuushuur which is a Mongolian lamb fried dumpling.
All of Julia’s students enjoyed her entertaining activity but the taste of her cooking was even better. Good job Julia!!





Today’s activity will be some Korean Jeon. Kanako is going to teach us all about Korean food and Jeon, which is Kimchi chijimi. I hope she can cook…

Finally, we are all getting excited about Monday’s special guest, Sean Lennon!!!!
All seating tickets are gone but everybody remember that you can still come to enjoy the performance – a lot of standing room is available.

Ikebana

久しぶりの日本語でのブログ更新です。
今月のアクティビティーのテーマは「日本」。

初日のこの日は、生け花をしました。
先生は、1回生のKen。彼は、18歳にして免許皆伝の腕前です。

生け花の歴史や生け方の基本を説明してから実際に皆で花を生けてみました。

約100人の学生が3回にわたって参加しました。



今もお花は飾ってあります。見に来て下さいね。

More Dance Video

Enjoy Giving! Kinki University Students Association Charity Event against HIV

Last Thursday and Friday, Kinki University Students Association held 2 dance events here at E-cube.
Thursday lunch time was a dance show and on Friday night, we had a dance party.

Both events were charity events to raise money for Japan STOP AIDS Fund.

Thank you to everyone who came and those who donated.

Also Thank you very much to all of the dancers who took parts in the events.

Hope you all had a really good time because we did!

Please check out the video if you want to see some of the action!

Hope to see you all in E-cube soon.

Science Month Event & Activity

Yesterday we were fortunate enough to have Professor Ida explain about `Bio Coke,` a form of coal made out of bio mass. Everyday items we throw away, for example, coffee grinds, used tea leaves, etc. can be turned into `Bio Coke.` Over sixty students observed the presentation.

Thank you, Prof. Ida!!!



And today, we had a Coke & Mentos Explosion Activity.
It was the most popular activity in E-cube history.
250 people showed up!!!! :)

Enjoy the video!!!

Mr Eto's High Speed Camera

Hello all,
Its been a while but we are back.
Just want to let you know about our exciting activities for June. Our theme this month is science and astronomy.
On Friday we had Professor Eto come along to E cube and give us a demonstration of his amazing high speed camera. He explained all about it to us and then we even got to see some amazing demonstrations! Seeing a water balloon bounce or burst in very very slow motion was really interesting. Lots of students came along to enjoy the activity so it was a great Friday.
Thank you very much to Professor Eto and his team for taking up their time to come and do the activity for us!!



We have another Professor coming along tomorrow to do another activity for us. It will be Professor. Ida and he is going to talk about his product, Bio Coke. It is wonderful stuff and helping to save the planet! If you don't know what Bio Coke is you can check it out here - http://www.kindai.ac.jp/bio-coke/en01.pdf

Everyone please come along tomorrow and you can learn first hand from Professor Ida all about the wonders of Bio Coke.

Hope to see you in E cube soon.

Flowers in bloom!

Come and have a look at our beautiful garden:)

4月

5月になりましたね！
英語村の4月は凄かったです。一日に平均1000人を超える！！！学生さんに遊びに来てもらいました。
ジェンガに燃えるひと、人生ゲームに没頭する人、チュロスを毎日買いに来る人、アクティビティーに参加する人、パスポートを取りに来る人、バスケットボールをするのに、朝からドアの前で待ってる人、ギターを弾きに来る人、NARUTOを読みに来る人（昨日、最新刊まで揃いました★）、そして、スタッフに会いに来る人、人人人。気は付いてないかもしれませんが、英語が確実にうまくなっていますよ！


ゴールデンウィークに突入して、6日まで英語村もお休みです。
7日からまた、10時に開くので、また、遊びに来て下さいね！

ちなみに英語村の5月のテーマはアートです。
毎日のアクティビティーもモノを作ったり、絵を描いたり、食べたり(笑)アートにちなんだものがいっぱいです。
３、４、５限目の10分後からアクティビティーは始まります。
そして！5月25日、26日は、アート・クラフトマーケットが開催されます。
かわいい、アクセなんかがいっぱい！　近大生ってすごい！と思っちゃいますよ！

ビリーズブートキャンプ in 近畿大学英語村を開催

オープン後、2年半で利用者20万人を突破した英語村Ｅ^３[e-cube]で、4月10日、ビリーズブートキャンプの考案者・ビリーブランクス氏が200人とともに汗を流しました。

「身体を動かしながら、身体に関する英語を"体感"してもらうのが今回のイベントの趣旨。「遊びながら英語を楽しく学ぶ」英語村のコンセプトにマッチしました。
新入生も集う春のキャンパスに、明るく楽しい英語レッスン「ビリーズブートキャンプ　in 近畿大学英語村」が開催され、事前に入隊申し込みをした学生200人と、観覧の学生約500人が集いました。

ビリーさんはイベント終了後、「若者の存在は未来そのもの」と学生との記念撮影やサイン、握手にも気軽に応じ、英語を通じて触れ合いました。
また、「体を動かすことは食事を取ることと同じぐらい大事なこと。1日10分でも続けてほしい」と呼びかけました。

＜参考リンク＞
近畿大学プレスリリース(別ウィンドウでひらきます)
"ビリー隊長"、近畿大学英語村E3の「英語講師」に学生とエクササイズ、「体感英語」を伝授

E-cube's Veggie Patch

Today, we started E-cube's vegetable & herb garden. We planted beans, cucumbers, many kinds of peppers and herbs.

We will watch them grow and use them for cooking activity.

Coming soon, we are going to plant totatoes, corn and much more.

Please come and help water and look after our garden!

Eco-friendly E-cube ;P

Pleo's arrival

Hello Everyone,
We've got some exciting news to report from E cube this morning! Yesterday, our new pet arrived! His name is Pleo and you can see a short video of him. He's a baby boy and he is a Camarasaurus. He is our new living, seeing, and learning pet dinosaur. At the moment his name is Pleo but we want to give him a new original name. We have started a naming contest and if you have any suggestions please email us at eigomura@gmail.com. He is looking for new friends so please come and meet him soon.
Also yesterday, the afternoon activity was drumming! We had a fun and noisy afternoon. The teacher was Danny and he taught everyone all about the basics of drumming. Any volunteers who wanted to play could then have a go. It looks like we have a few wanna be rockstars at E cube!
Today's activity is all about Japan and Mayuko will be taking it. She is going to talk about Kyoto, but, of course it will be in English. Most Japanese people love to talk about Kyoto but can you do it in English? If anyone is interested please come along at 1.00 this afternoon.
Remember, everyone is welcome and we hope to see you here soon.

Open to public!

E3 has been to open to public since last Monday. Yesterday, we played table tennis.

Hope everyone had fun:)

We are going to have a "Finger Knitting" class today from 1:00!

一般公開は、2月16日（月）～3月31日（火）（3月9日（月）は除く）までの月曜日から金曜日10：00～16：00の間、一般公開を行います。 毎日13時からアクティビティー（ミニ教室）を行います。 月曜日はスポーツ、火曜日はクラフト、水曜日は音楽、木曜日は国や文化、金曜日は料理や食べ物がテーマです。 16歳以上なら誰でも参加いただけます。

C U soon!