We are members of the igo club. We have an activity once a week. Igo is one of Japanese traditional board games, which is played using white and black stones on a big board. The other day, we took part in a competition. We are by no means strong players, but we devoted all our energy to the game. This is because we love igo.

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We are newspaper club. We published school newspaper once in the end of the term. We make the wall newspaper called “ND times” from this year. It is small club activity, but we are friendly and enjoying activities. We want to make a newspaper having you be interested in students.

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Hello. We are Kotenbungakukenkyubu. It means classical literature research club. We play “Karuta”. “Karuta” is a popular card game based on the hyakunin isshu poems. Hyakunin isshu is a collection of 100 old Japanese waka poems, one each by 100 poets. Karuta plays one to one and we use 50 random cards and put 25 cards each on our positions on Tatami. Then, we scramble for 50 cards one at a time, when we hear the sentence the card is about end. If I take a card of opponent, I can send my card opponent from my position. In the end, I win when my position’s cards run out.
We are active three days a week and we participate in a national competition. The club members are cheerful beyond grade and are very friendly. I hope everyone can know about the merits of our club.

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We are the calligraphy club. Calligraphy is a creative art form which attempts to express spiritual depth and beauty by means of kanji and kana characters written with a brush and sumi (ink). All the Calligraphy members have good hand writing.

 kanji  characters

   kanji and kana characters

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There was a school festival last weekend. I introduced about food at the festival. There were many kinds of food in our festival. For example, ice-cream, yakisoba, noodle, bread and rice balls, and so on. Each of them was very cheap and delicious.

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Some of the students played as an ensemble and　performed plays on the stage. These groups performed this year; Koto club, classical guitar　club, chorus club, string music club, drama　club, Kichihonshingeki and shunjukyosokyoku.　All the performances were wonderful.

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We held a school festival at our school. I will introduce the dances. Many groups of dancers performed. Their dances were wonderful. I got goose bumps. It moved my heart. They practiced very hard. A lot of their supporters came. They figured out the right fashion, so they we very cute. Please come to our school festival. Thanks for reading.

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This week the students from Notre Dame are visiting our school. They attended some classes with us and we interacted with each other. On June 22, we had a small welcome party after school. First, we introduced ourselves, and shared our hobbies and favorite things. Then we played some games to learn more about each other. The first game was a gesture game. It was so hard that we couldn’t correctly answer at once. The next game was a rhythm game. They also told us about American rhythm games. Last of all we discussed peace. We had a fulfilling and pleasant time! We wanted to talk with them much longer, so we reluctantly finished the party. I hope we have much more opportunities to communicate with foreign people in the future.

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I’ll talk about our school festival, especially the bands. Our school festival has many bands. But the bands mustn’t use electric guitar or drums. This is different point with other school festivals. So the bands use acoustic guitars and keyboards and the keyboard’s drums. The bands are very wonderful, so many people come.
Please come to our school festival next year!

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Hello. This time we’ll introduce the swimming club in our School Festival. You could do physical fitness tests there. For example, how flexible you are, lung capacity, grip, and biological clock.
You could get points according to your strength. And you are given a prize by the points.
The arch with balloons is a guide to the room. There is the word “SWIM” on the floor in front of the room. The swimming club is very popular. Please come in.

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