Isesaki School English Magazine 2017 Summer Impress Summer breeze makes me feel fine Impress Contents Staff 3 A Taste of Summer Martin Campbell George Liu Summer Fun: 5 Minecraft Rachel Beilsmith Misao Chigusa Summer Storms in 6 the Mideast USA Isesaki ALTs The Japanese-American 7 Isesaki Board of Education Dream Impress Online 9 Sister Cities www.Isesaki.in/Impress Visit our website to get extra The Spirit of Summer: 11 Omikoshi materials and learn about image sources and copyrights. You can contact us at our 13 Changing Lives website or send us a letter at: • Yotsuba Gakuen 14 Things in Summer • Sakai Kita Junior High • Uehasu Junior High 1 | Impress A good friend is like a four-leaf Issue 4 clover. Hard to find, lucky to have. Summer - Irish Proverb 2017 Summer 2017 | 2 A Taste of Summer by Toni Kobayashi Summer is time for festivals and food! After a long time under the sun, 1 we want something cold to eat. The most popular dessert,1 of course, is kakigori. It is shaved ice topped2 with flavored syrup3 or condensed milk4. Did you know that kakigori is almost everywhere in the world? There are many different types of shaved ice. In China and Taiwan, it is called 5 baobing. In Indonesia, it is es teler and es campur. In the USA, it can be shaved ice, snow cone, and more! In the Philippines, we call it halo-halo, which means “mixed together.” The Philippines is a tropical4 country, which means winter never comes! Halo-halo is popular because it is warm all year long5. It was introduced 10 by6 Japanese people in the 1900s. It is now a favorite of the Filipinos. Halo-halo is served mainly with fruit. It can be served with other different ingredients, but it is mostly served with jellies, sweet beans, coconut, sweet potatoes, corn, pudding, condensed milk, and ice cream. To eat halo-halo, you have to mix all the ingredients together. The 15 sweet potatoes will turn everything purple! 3 | Impress Es Teler (Indonesia) Baobing (Taiwan) Patbingsu (Korea) Baobing (Taiwan) Shirokuma (Japan) Italian Ice (USA) Namkhaeng Sai (Thailand) Granita (Italy) Es Doger (Indonesia) Kakigori (Japan) Sno Cone (USA) Halo-Halo (the Philippines) Patbingsu (Korea) Ais Kacang (Malaysia) Es Campur (Indonesia) Shaved Ice Around The World Vocabulary Let’s Make Halo-Halo! Summary Summer 2017 | 4 Summer Fun: Minecraft by George Liu Can you learn from a game? 1 Minecraft was made by Markus Around the world, millions1 of Alexej Persson, a Swedish game people use a game called programmer7. At 7, he started 20 Minecraft to learn. In Minecraft, programming. He made his first people can create2 anything with 5 game at 8. 3 their friends. Some people even Markus Persson started making make computers in Minecraft and Minecraft around 2009. He sold his create their own games. company8 to Microsoft in 2014 for 25 Minecraft teaches children about 2.5 billion9 dollars. 4 10 computers and programming . Vocabulary Schools use it to teach art and science. It can be used to help people understand design and architecture5. The UN, the British 15 Museum, and Denmark have used it to help people visualize6 and change the world. 5 | Impress Summer Storms in the Midwest USA by Rachel Beilsmith In Japan, summer is typhoon 1 Summer storms are beautiful, season1. It rains often and too. For example, you can often 20 sometimes very hard. Every day see a rainbow14 when the storm is hot and humid2. is finished. In the American Midwest3, there 5 are no typhoons. But there are Vocabulary thunderstorms4 every day in the summer. They are short, but powerful5. These storms can be scary, too. 10 There is a lot of thunder6 and lightning7. The rain is heavy8, and sometimes balls of ice fall from the sky. This is called hail9. Sometimes there are tornados10. 15 A tornado is a funnel11 of strong wind, and it’s really dangerous12. People have to be careful13. Questions Summary SummerSpring 2017 2017 | | 67 The first astronaut1 from Japan was Mamoru 1 Mohri, who went to space2 in 1992. But the first Japanese person in space was Ellison Shoji Onizuka. He was a NASA astronaut who flew on the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1985. 5 Onizuka was born in Hawaii, but his family was from Fukuoka, Japan. He was proud3 to be an American, but he was also strongly influenced4 by his family’s Japanese culture. There had never been a Japanese-American 10 astronaut before, so Onizuka worked and The studied hard to become the first. He was someone who made his dreams come true5. Japanese- And he always encouraged6 young people to follow their dreams. So Onizuka was loved and 15 American respected7 by many people. Sadly, Onizuka did not fly to space again. He Dream was a crew member8 of the Space Shuttle Challenger, which exploded9 on January 28, 1986. He died when he was only 39 years old. 20 by Bannister Brown Lee But he left us with a message of hope for our future: “Your vision is not limited by what your eye can see, but by what your mind can imagine.” Questions 7 | | Impress Impress “Onizuka was a hometown hero where I'm from. I met him several times when he would come and encourage students to chase their dreams. I am excited to share his story with students.” - Bannister Brown Lee Vocabulary A short history of space 1963, USSR Summary 1610, Venice First look at the stars with a telescope First woman in space (Galileo Galilei) (Valentina Tereshkova) 1926, USA 1963, USA First liquid-fueled rocket First space plane (Robert H. Goddard) (X-15) 1957, USSR 1986, USA First space shuttle First satellite in space explosion (Sputnik 1) (Challenger) 1961, USSR 2015, USA/JP First food First man in space grown in space (Yuri Gagarin) (red lettuce) Every American passport contains these words from Ellison Onizuka: "Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds... to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation." Summer 2017 | 8 Do you know Springfield, Missouri? I lived there before I came to Isesaki. Students from Isesaki go to Springfield two times every year. I wanted to live in Japan because I met Isesaki students in Springfield before. Mr. Kimura will introduce Springfield to you! - Martin Campbell Isesaki’s sister city1, Springfield, is in Missouri 1 state in the USA. They have been our sister city since 1986. About 150 thousand2 people live there. There are mountains, forests, and caves3. A lot of nature is in Springfield. The weather is 5 like Japan’s weather. Some people say Springfield is like lsesaki. The Sister City Program tries to create good friendships4 between cities, so they do many things. For example, students in Springfield 10 Sister sometimes visit5 Japan, and students in Isesaki visit Springfield. I actually went to Springfield twice, and I met Springfield students in Isesaki. Cities Also, Isesaki city financially6 supports Isesaki 15 students at Missouri State University. by Atsuki Kimura When I went there, I learned English and a student of Yotsuba Gakuen experienced a lot. I think sister cities are important for knowing different cultures. Understanding each other brings peace7. Our sister city, Springfield, gave me many 20 8 memories. I hope we are sister cities forever . 9 | Impress Vocabulary Questions 3) Summary Summer 2017 | 10 The Spirit of Summer: Omikoshi by Martin Campbell What is your image of summer? 1 and many other traditions7, Fireworks1? Kakigori? Hot weather? especially the omikoshi. 15 I grew up in the United States. In the United States, we don’t During summer vacation, I went have festivals like the Isesaki swimming with my friends. We 5 festival, so I was happy to see it. 2 3 listened to cicadas and caught This year, I carried omikoshi with 4 fireflies . We ate ice cream, many friends. But I didn’t know 20 watched baseball games, stayed about omikoshi. So I asked Mr. up late, went hiking, and played Michiaki Shimojo, a leader of the 10 outside. These are my best omikoshi event, and many other 5 memories of summer. people. I learned omikoshi shows 25 Recently, I went to Isesaki the spirit8 of Japan. Let’s learn 6 festival ! I learned about Tanabata about omikoshi together! Summary Vocabulary 11 | Impress Thoughts and Comments What is omikoshi? Why do you carry omikoshi? “We use the omikoshi to pray for a good “Because it’s fun!” harvest and safety for family and citizens.” -Kento Tanaka and Yuta Tabei -Motoyuki Tokue “A god is enshrined in the portable shrine “To make bonds stronger.” temporarily.” -Ayana Matsui, Mirei Utsuyama, -Ryosuke Saito and Ayaka Yamaguchi American Thoughts on Omikoshi “I’m impressed with reverence, respect, and “We had so much fun. We felt welcome — order. Omikoshi engages mind, body, and soul. not Japanese, not American — just human. We’re not Japanese, but we were invited to Nationality doesn’t matter when you try to participate. We felt welcome.” lift something that heavy!” - Richard Maxson - Karen Maxson Summer 2017 | 12 Changing Lives It was my dream to become an elementary school teacher. When I was a junior high school student, I liked talking with my friends. I wanted to talk with many people abroad, too, so I began to like English. My dream came true. Now, I am so happy because I work as an elementary school teacher. I teach English, Math, Social Studies, PE, and more. The students are so energetic, and I get a “Finding your dream is lot of energy from them.