Where: 19th floor meeting room, Club Ultima Tower 2, Fuente Osmeña, Cebu City (at the back of Crown Regency Hotel, beside Metrobank Jones Branch, near to Robinsons Place Cebu)
Note: Meeting room number will be known upon arrival. Just find us by the lobby, it is just right infront of the "snooze lounge" at the 19th floor area. Ask if we're from CIO-AMAGE.
Time: 3:30pm
Note: We need to be 30mins earlier for collection of the payments. For this saturday only. Thanks...And just incase if you're late, just go to the reception area at the 19th floor area and ask what meeting room number that the Nihongo lessons / CIO-AMAGE is being held.
Please be ready with your payments (PHP550 for each person). Thank you.
If you have any other concerns,
please contact me at 09154869767 and look for GEM.
Here are the final list of participants for the
Nihongo Class Batch 2!
>Ruji (CIO)
>Shuurei (CIO)
>RedVill (CIO)
>Empress
>Marga
>Niji
>Sarah
>Ken
>Rai
>Kai
>Duckyboo
>Chuchay
See you all this Saturday! Thank you and God bless. (^_____^)
In behalf of the Nihongo committee team, I would like to share this proposal.
In support and in appreciation of Japanese culture, let us attend and watch the Japanese Film Fest / Eiga Sai 2009.
Free Admission! (^___^)
It's at Ayala Cinema 4, Cebu City.
Here are the schedules for the movies:
July 28 (Tue) 7pm "Always - Sunset on Third Street"
July 29 (Wed) 7pm "The Milkwoman"
July 30 (Thu) 7pm "Turn Over"
July 31 (Fri) 7pm "Tony Takitani"
Aug 1 (Sat) 4pm "Mind Game" 7pm "Memories of Tomorrow"
Aug 2 (Sun) 4pm "Kamome Diner" 7pm "Memories of Matsuko"
You can choose any movie that you would want to watch... or if you have a lot of free time, you can watch as many as you can. It's Free Admission, this is brought to you by The Japan Foundation Manila, Shangri-La Plaza and UP Film Institute (^___^)
The officers have decided to meet with the group and watch one of the movies together. This will be a good bonding activity for the group.
This coming Aug 1, CIO-AMAGE will watch "Memories of Tomorrow". Please let us know if you want to join with us... the more, the merrier! Contact either Seishi, X, or Meigemchan.
CIO-AMAGE is now open for registrations for Nihongo Lessons Batch 2! Open to all Nihongo Enthusiasts and Anime Fans who wants to learn Basic Japanese.
Venue: 19th floor meeting room, Club Ultima Tower 2, Fuente Osmeña, Cebu City (at the back of Crown Regency Hotel, beside Metrobank Jones Branch, near to Robinsons Place Cebu)
CLASSES STARTS ON AUG 8, 2009.
Every Saturday at 4-6pm.
Registration Fee: PHP50
VENUE Fee: PHP500
The Venue Fee is already covered for two(2) months or eight(8) sessions(2hrs per session). It is also already inclusive of the materials which will be used in the lessons. The Venue Fee must be paid first hand in order to be enrolled in the class.
LESSONS:
*Basic Japanese Grammar:
From NOUN to -TEMO / -NAKUTEMO verb conjugation
*800 Japanese Vocabulary, verbs inclusive
*Most Common Japanese Expressions
*Japanese Kana: Hiragana and Katakana
To those who are willing to join the Nihongo Class, please fill-up the following application form for registration. Send application form to email meigemchan@yahoo.com.ph. The details about the payments will be given after the filling of application.
Sending of applications is NECESSARY in order to be registered to the class. We promise to keep everything confidential and for portfolio purpose only. This is also helpful for planning the lessons accordingly, and to calculate how much we'll be spending for the materials.
DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATIONS: Aug 6, 2009
APPLICATION FORM
Personal Info:
Name:
Nickname:
Gender:
Age:
Company / School:
Email Ad:
Mobile no.:
YM ID:
Historical Background:
Have you taken Nihongo lessons before?
If Yes,
What school?
Where?
Name of teacher:
If None,
Do you do self-study? Yes and Always, Sometimes, Never
Other Necessary Info:
Please state the books that you already have that are related to Japanese study:
in example...
[Shin Nihongo no Kiso I, Minna no Nihongo]
The reason why you want to learn Nihongo...
Comments and expectations...
Suggestions... and Questions...
NOTE:
Nihonggo lessons starts at the basic. To those who already have background in Japanese study can still join the classes for review purposes and for enhancement. To those who think that they know enough may help teach. For immediate questions... ask me directly on through YM... account ID: meigemchan (^_^)’
First of all, I would like to express my gratitude to CIO-AMAGE for the support they had given me and for all the efforts done in order to keep the Nihongo sessions going. Though I’m still a newbie in the field of teaching and knowing that I don’t even have enough credentials yet, but still they treated me with much respect and how much I really appreciated it. CIO-AMAGE is more like a family to me now. I’ve never felt so much appreciated before… they gave me more inspiration and developed my passion for teaching. I’m glad that CIO-AMAGE offered an opportunity for those who want to study the Japanese language by opening a class or a study group to cater their interest in the language. And I’m glad that they gave me this chance to offer my service to them especially to those who have the passion in learning the Japanese language. With all these, I’m hoping for more fruitful years of friendship and unity with the team.
It has been 8 weeks already since the lessons first started. It was on May 23, 2009, where we held the first session at Redvill’s home in Tisa, Labangon and it we started out just fine. But normal as we are, we also encountered some problems. May 30, 2009, we had to postpone the lessons because of the occurrence of an unpredictably heavy rain. To make everything smooth and convenient for the succeeding lessons, the officers decided to look for a fixed venue. And then it was on June 6, 2009, when we had our lessons temporarily at Mikare’s house in Banawa, the officers and some other participants decided to have the fixed venue at Club Ultima. On June, 13 2009, classes was held in the latest venue at Club Ultima’s meeting room and everything went well especially that the venue is already accommodating where there is enough space for everyone, and a white board available to work with, and it was fully air-conditioned. Organized by CIO-AMAGE and the expense for the venue was contributed by the participants.
When school began in the mid of June, gradually, it became difficult for some of the participants to attend the Nihongo sessions due to school activities and some have school on a Saturday because most of the participants are still students. They come whenever they’re free and excuse themselves whenever they can’t make it. Absences became frequent. And this is problematic to the part of the organizers and officers, to the teacher, and to the remaining participants as well.
This problem brought us to the effect such as; 1) Delay in the lessons. It was difficult for the teacher to adjust whether to give them a chance to catch up or not, because this can also be unfair to those who are consistent in class especially to those who are eager to go for the next lessons. 2) Deficit of funds for the venue. Since there are times that they are only a few attendees that the officers would sometimes shelter for the payment of the venue.
Naturally, we may get disappointed about what had happened in the matter of receiving withdrawals and frequency of absences, but there’s nothing that we can do about the decisions of others. We respect their decisions. And if ever they plan to join again, they will always be welcomed. They were an important part of the class. And what matters most is that the friendship we had will not only be limited inside the walls of the classroom but this friendship will always be as it is wherever we go… until we meet again.
In behalf of the Nihongo committee, sadly but there’s nothing we can do but to end Nihongo Lessons Batch 1. I asked for apologies, to CIO-AMAGE and especially to the remaining participants of Batch 1, for not being able to meet up with your expectations. Just as what life is, as human as we are, we sometimes fail and make mistakes. As what William Connor Magee quoted, “The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.“ From the mistakes we made and with all the problems that we’ve encountered, was not really a problem at all. But instead, these brought us to new ideas for improvements. Everything happens for a reason. What had happened will serve as instruments for us to become better… and lead us to ways of becoming stronger.
Whatever happens ahead of us, never will it be a hindrance for us to grow. If we fall, then we should stand again as a whole new being. The lessons shall continue… with a whole new batch, especially with the coming of a new teacher. Cabs-sensei will also be teaching with me, he who came at the right time and that it gave me more hope in bringing back the class once more. There’s going to be a new system to comply and new adjustments to deal with. We are hoping that with the new improvements which we will soon be having would finally fill up the missing holes that once we forgot to mind at.
Once again, I humbly asked for everyone to support. Let’s help building each other up, keep our lessons going, keeping our friendship and unity stronger, making our community bigger, and let us become a great team.
Moving on… all set and ready for a new beginning.
“Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.” Denis Waitley
Hello, everyone this is Seishi with updates for our dearly beloved Cebu Integrated Organization of Anime Manga and Games Enthusiasts. Hehehe, kumpleto jud no?
Anyway, updates on our forums. Our CIO-AMAGE website is now up thanks to the efforts of PJ, whose Yahoo! ID is banehallow2. For now, we are using a free account because we don't have the funds to do maintain paid hosting, but it would've been worth the expense. Because of that, we have a limitation to our forums: registered users do not receive confirmation emails for their registration, hence there is the need for the site admin (me, in this instance) to manually approve the registration on the users' behalf. While this is not a problem (officers, you need to become admins together with me so YM me, i'll give you the username and pass), it can be time consuming.
According to the PJ, that's about the only problem we have with the site.
Good news! We have decided to push through with the planned J-music Festival, which has a tentative date somewhere in September. Clearly, it would be a Saturday so that everyone can be available. Now, I need your suggestions? What time should the event start and what time should it end? I'm asking this because we have different age groups in this organization and clearly some of you would be adhering to strict curfews that limit the hours of your participation. Make suggestions through the comments, and then soon we shall have a poll to see which is the most popular choice.
Minna-san, your inputs will be crucial for the selection of venues, as some places are available on hours like 3pm-11pm. Arigatou!
